 | Robert Bland - English poetry - 1833 - 468 pages
...not think of themes like these ; It made Anacreon's song divine : " Fill high the bowl with S ami an wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see...breasts must suckle slaves. " Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep : There, swan-like,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. 15. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine 1 Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their...tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. 16. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs... | |
 | Sophocles - 1833 - 480 pages
...took the hint for the last stanza of his ode to the Greek isles . — Place me on Sunium's marbled steep. Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs weep, — There, swan-like, let me sing and die. the captured slave, I speak. Truly hadst thou been... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1834 - 374 pages
...music to thy shore ! — Oh ! linger, seamen, linger on the oar !" ANCIENT GREEK CHAUNT OF VICTORY. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine, Our virgins dance beneath the shade. lo ! they come, they come ! Garlands for every shrine ! Strike lyres to greet them home ; Bring roses,... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - American literature - 1834 - 542 pages
...doing nothing, Or, bathing, nursing, making love and clothing." Lord Byron. The modern Greeks dance. " Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade." The Greek crouches ; — for years, he had crouched beneath the Moslem ; and now, he bows before a... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1835 - 376 pages
...and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. 15. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine I Our virgins dance beneath the shade — I see their...tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. i 16. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins...burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must nourish slaves. Place me on Sunium's marble steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, A land of... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins...such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, , May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like,... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine, Our virgins dance...such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There,... | |
 | Johannes Matthias Firmenich Richartz - 1840 - 184 pages
...í'ra noti¡fut j-»a тон &¿vatov TOV AóqS Bá'ícwi'. Our virgins dance beneath the «hade. — I see their glorious black eyes shine; But gazing...tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. (7) 'Aya)Jiáa»t> %,«oí, xaí ird-i\ria wç Kt<f. Яе'. (8) Elvtti. ¿).ri&ivài>, от» oí Tovqxoi... | |
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Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine! 
