Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no : the voices of the dead Sound like... The works of ... lord Byron - Page 53by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821Full view - About this book
| John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae 1 What, silent still ? and silent all. Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come I" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain— in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent Etill ''. and silent nil 1 Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...living head,— But one arise — we come, we come !" In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine ! Leave battles to... | |
| Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...tLrre hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What ! silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no : — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come ! " 'T is but the living who are dumb. 84. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIR.— Lori Ryron. THE Assyrian... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylse ! 8. What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, THE ISLES OF GREECE. 123 But one arise, — we come, we come ! " Tis but the living who are dumb. 9.... | |
| American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae. What, silent still ? and silent all? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...living head, But one, arise, — we come, we come 1 ' 'T is but the living who are dumb. In vain, — in vain ; strike other chords; Fill high the cup... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae. What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no j — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's...living head, But one, arise, — we come, we come ! " 'T is but the living who are dumb. In vain, — in vain ; strike other chords; Fill high the cup... | |
| Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...Our father's bled ! Earth ! render back from out thy breast, What, silent still! and silent all ? Ah! no, the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise—we come, we come !'' 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain—in vain: strike other chords... | |
| P. A. Fitzgerald - Elocution - 1855 - 296 pages
...Spartan dead I Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! Sound like a di&taut torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come ! " T is but the living who are dumb. Kon. It has not been thought necessary, by multiplying piece*... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...Three Hundred grant hut three, To make a new Thermopylae 1 What, silent still ! and silent all I Ah I no — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...head, But one arise — we come, we come !" . Tis hut the living who are dumh. In vain — in vain : strike other chords : Fill high the cup with Samian... | |
| Elocution - 1856 - 286 pages
...three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What ! silent still ? and silent all 1 Ah ! no ; the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's...one living head, But one arise — we come, we come ! " 'T is but the living who are dumb. NOTE. It has not been thought necessary, by multiplying pieces... | |
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