 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.  Anthologia oxoniensis - Page 100edited by - 1846 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Eisner - History - 1991 - 340 pages
...girls, and a poet who sings a Philhellenic hymn full of history no Greek poet of the day would know. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung . . . (3.86.1) But alas! Lambro, the errant father, has not died. He has returned secretly (far-seeing... | |
 | Sheldon Brivic - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 228 pages
...Annotations 75, points out that FW 75.9-10 parodies the well-known lines from Byron's Don Juan, "The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece!/ Where burning Sappho loved and sung!" The song about Greece appears between stanzas 86 and 87 of Canto III. Because the pages of McHugh's... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...harpy. 39 Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see. OxBoLi 40 The rein I'll catch the conscience of the King. (II, ii) NAWM-I 33 O, what a 41 The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...that were. LORD BYRON (1 788-1 824), English poet. Chitde Harold's Pilgrimage, clo. 2, st. 2. 3 The the earth befalls the sons of the Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet. But all, except their sun, is set. LORD BYRON (1788-1824).... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...that it 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...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprang! CHAPTER 5 Phaeton Phaeton was the son of Apollo and the nymph Clymene.... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...歡迎呵， 岩窟@ 我的故鄉永別T @ 係梁譯 52 The Isles of Greece G 切r 辟G 付do 冗B 打on The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece Where burning...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...In Italy he 'd ape the " Trecentist! ; " In Greece, he 'd sing some sort of hymn like this V ye: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set The Scian and the... | |
 | Austin L. Sorenson - History - 1994 - 268 pages
...in that land, wrote: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where grew the arts of war and peace; Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. Herodotus, the famous Greek historian, made this solemn prediction: Greece will be strong and a match... | |
 | M. L. West - History - 1992 - 452 pages
...that all or almost all Sappho's poems 'were recited by herself informally to her companions'.1 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and recited'? In that generally admirable volume The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986) we look... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...lived, and love as I have loved; To dust if I return, from dust I sprung, X The Isles of Greece 1 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! 5 Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.... | |
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