 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung — Where grew the arts of war and peace — Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Th« mountains look ou Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Bless'd." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoabus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...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,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except...place 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet; But all, except...place 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... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...burning Sappho lov'd and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung; Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except...the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, flave found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute, To sounds which echo... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 824 pages
...human eye to note their luxuriance. Those grassy banks and hillocks, and desolated touns and hamlets, Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set : and Lochnaveen, with all its pastoral softness and romance, and wild grandeur, is to the stranger... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - Greece - 1845 - 510 pages
...of Pausanias is so clear and decisive as to leave no doubt of its being the tomb of the Athenians. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, H;4*ve found the fame your shores refuse ; Th'ñr pjacfí of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo... | |
 | Edinburgh tales - 1846 - 426 pages
...their VOL. 1П. luxuriance. Those grassy banks and hillocks, and desolated toune and hamlets, — " Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set: " and Lochnaveen, with all its pastoral softness and romance, and wild grandeur, is to the stranger... | |
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The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 
