 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...supposed to have been the Cape de Verd islands or the Canaries. * [" Eubffia looks on Marathon, 3. And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece...Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 4. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamt that Greece r,iig.it still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave, A king sate on tne rocKy brow, Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations;... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' 'Islands of the Ulest.' The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there m hour alone, I dreamt that Greece hiig.it still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' p-ave, I... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...of birth alone is mute, To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...that Greece might still be free ; 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... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...Delos rose, and Phoebus 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 that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | William Howitt - 1851 - 1040 pages
...spirit — that of the poet of " Childe Harold" — has laid down his life in the cause of Greece. " The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might vet be free." " ' You have quoted the words, Mr. Dorrington ; you have illustrated... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." 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 Persian's4 grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1851 - 626 pages
...roso üml I'm» вг** sprung; Eternal summer «¡Ids (hum yel, But all, except their sun, ¡a set. 'The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea, And 111ЧЧ11 • there an hour atone, I deemed that (¡reece might still be free ; For, standing on the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...Delos rose, and Phoebus 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 that Greeee might still be free; For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...Delos rose, and Phoabus 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 that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
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Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they? 
