 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther 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 Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...also vivifies them with the deep emotion of the solitary human being standing in the midst of them : " The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I thought that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...sun, is set ! The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the lame your shores refuse Their place of birth alone is mute...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... | |
 | Robert William Browne - Greece - 1856 - 464 pages
...sweeps on the breeze over the warriors' graves. " The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looka on the sea, And musing there an hour alone I dream'd...Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave." — BYBON. The glory of Marathon belonged to Athens... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 286 pages
...Where Delos rose, and Phrebus 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... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 282 pages
...Where 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 Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest."3 The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And, musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still Ve free ; For, standing on the Persian's4 grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...associating harmonizing energy of the poetic faculty blends all the elements in perfect union : — " The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea i And musing there an hour alone, I dream' a that Greece might still be free ; For standing on...Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 4. A kinf* sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...also vivifies them with the deep emotion of the solitary human being standing in the midst of them : " The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I thought 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? 
