 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 muse,...  The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ... - Page 120by William Draper Swan - 1845 - 484 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...Sigh'd for their sakes — that they should e'er grow older. DON JUAN. THE ISLES OF GREECE. 1. THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phosbus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. t, The Scian* and... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...unavenged ? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire ! S3. DEGENERACY OF GREECE. — Lord Ryron. THE Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning...the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoobus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look... | |
 | James Pillans - Classical geography - 1854 - 292 pages
...have furnished an English word descriptive of a <» The Scian and the Teian muse, (Homer and Anacreon) The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' ' Islands of the Blest.' (»»«i /«*«{*») A.fftu ft vrgext&tfcovruv,... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1854 - 244 pages
...The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the art of war and peace. — Where Delos rose and Phoebus...them yet, But all, except their sun, is set., THE JEouAN SEA ! Loveliest of all waters, its bright surface almost seems conscious that it laves classic... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...the Revolution, are still applicable. THE ISLES OF GREECE. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece 1 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 their sun, is set. The Scian and the... | |
 | 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...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Island of the Blest. The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...chain, But all my company is as a weed. Lord, place me in thy concert, give one strain To my poor reed. •THE ISLES OF GREECE. — Byron. THE isles of Greece...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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