 The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse : Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'  The Poetical Melange - Page 851828Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...summer 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...looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...Delos rose, and Phrebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea : And musing there, an hour, alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be fire* For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | Robert Bland - English poetry - 1833 - 468 pages
...summer 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...further West Than your sires' Islands of the Blest. " Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these ; It made Anacreon's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2. The Scian(2) and the Teian muse,(3) The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores...further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." (4) (1) [The poets of the fourteenth century— Dante, &c.] l2) [Homer.] (3) [Anacreon.] (4) The vwoi... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...summer 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...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Bless'd." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...Eternal summer 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...is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sire's " Islands of the blest." The mountains look on Marathon— I dream'd that Greece might still... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...summer 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...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west « Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon... | |
 | Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...flung-by means. Sleep well, aveugcd young duke, and fair boy -king, 194 AN HISTORIC BATTLE-GROUND. Tie mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on...musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might yet be free. Dox JUAIT. The breakfast party at the Hotel d'Angleterre, of Athena, on a bright morning... | |
 | Sir George Everest - India - 1839 - 164 pages
...EVEREST. LETTER III. " The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found that fame your shores refuse; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west, Than your sire's ' Islands of the blest. " MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, BYRON.... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 528 pages
...Delos rose, and Phcebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
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