 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...free ; For standing on the Persians' grave I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships,...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine 1 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born +Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men and nations, all were his ! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they ? 5. And where are they? And where art thou, My country ? On thy voiceless shore Th' + heroic lay is... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships,...where art thou, My country ? On thy voiceless shore And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? T is something, in the dearth... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...fre* For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships...the sun set, where were they ? And where are they 1 and where art thou. My country ? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now — The heroic... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...supposed to have been the Cape de Verd Islands or the Canaries.— BTKON. 4. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships,...break of day — And when the sun set where were they ? 5. And where are they ? and where art thou, My country ? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1854 - 676 pages
...of the daring and the backward. " A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salnmis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations...break of day— And when the sun set where were they ?" The Grecian commanders lost no time in preparing to meet their multitudinous opponents. The Athenians... | |
 | T. R.. Barnes - 1964 - 340 pages
...free; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A King sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships,...where were they? And where are they? and where art them, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now — The heroic bosom beats... | |
 | 1842 - 52 pages
...liberty and her bravery departed; and where now is the lovely isle ? Let the muse of Byron answer : -" On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more." She has passed away; " Fuit Ilium" is engraven indelibly on her time-honored barracks of rock. In lika... | |
 | Malcolm Francis McGregor - Art - 1987 - 248 pages
...the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis," glorying in the sheer numbers of his men below. "He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they?" By the end of the day the Persians were in full retreat ; the surviving ships sought Phalerum and the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...free For standing on the Persians' grave. I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships,...break of day — And when the sun set where were they f 5. And where are they ? and where art thon, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is... | |
| |
The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks... 
