 The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian...  Selections from the Poetry of Lord Byron - Page 263by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...will that sad, still face of thine, Look on me till I die !" MRS. REMANS. SONG OF THE GREEK BARD. THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...shook, The blue-eyed German changed his sword to pruning-hook. CAMPBELL. 80. SONO OF THE GREEK BARD. THE Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Seian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the, lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...Lord, place me in thy concert, give one strain To my poor reed. •THE ISLES OF GREECE. — Byron. THE isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The-Scian and the Teian Muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1855 - 442 pages
...however strongly they may affirm it, the eighth wonder of the world.1' 98. The Isles of Greece. THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...might be a secure resting-place for his beloved. Byron alludes to Delos in his Don Juan : — " The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning...war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung ! " Phaeton. CHAPTER V. PHAETON. PHAETON was the son of Apollo and the nymph Clymene. One day a schoolfellow... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...the same word or words emphatically. 1. " Restore him, restore him if you can, from the dead." 8. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung — Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is scl. — BYRON. O thou... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 768 pages
...the same word or words emphatically. 1. " Restore him, restore him if you can, from the dead." 8. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung — Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set. — BYRON. 0 t lion... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1855 - 506 pages
...Hungary, and all the centre of Europe, which had come to exceed £3,000,000 of riporn from Britain. " The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose and Phœbus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet. But all except their sun is set."*... | |
 | 1833 - 632 pages
...from anarchy and confusion ; hut in regard to the others, the traveller is ready to exclaim, " The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning...loved and sung; Where grew the arts of war and peace ; Whence Delos rose, and Phcebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is... | |
 | P. A. Fitzgerald - Elocution - 1855 - 296 pages
...o'er a warrior's tomb ! DEGENERACY OF GREECE. LORD BTRON. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece I Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Pkebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except th«ir sun, is set. The mountains look... | |
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