 | Sir George Everest - India - 1839 - 164 pages
...that may result from such a procedure. I have the honour to be, &c. &c. GEORGE 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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 pages
...loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung 1 Eternal summer gilds them yet ; But all, except their...place of birth alone is mute To sounds, which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blessed." The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 528 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where 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. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd... | |
 | Henry Alford - Greek poetry - 1841 - 272 pages
...burning Sappho lov'd and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...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 - 1841 - 380 pages
...hurning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoehus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the loverSs lute, Have found the fnme your shores refus0 Their place of hirth alone is mute To sounds which... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phœbus 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 dreamed... | |
 | American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung — Where grew the arts of war and peace — Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Th« mountains look ou Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Bless'd." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoabus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...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...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... | |
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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. 
