 | Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...flung-by means. Sleep well, aveugcd young duke, and fair boy -king, 194 AN HISTORIC BATTLE-GROUND. Tie mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea) And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might yet be free. Dox JUAIT. The breakfast party at the Hotel d'Angleterre, of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 380 pages
...place of hirth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Ble: The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, f I dream'd that Greece might still he free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream' d that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...found the fame your shores refuse; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Bless'd." The...Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king pate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - Greece - 1845 - 510 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...free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could nut deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 818 pages
...BC Who does not remember the burning lines of Byron in allusion to that said battle of Salamis ? " 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 sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west 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 Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 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 Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blessed." 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 Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...Delos rose, and Phœbus 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... | |
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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, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where... 
