 | 1856
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 268 sidor
...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856
...harp, the lover's lute, Have 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 Blest."3 The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And, musing there an hour... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 408 sidor
...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... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857
...found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' ' Islands of the Blest" The...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 - 1857 - 360 sidor
...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857
...associating harmonizing energy of the poetic faculty blends all the elements in perfect union : — "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 Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 448 sidor
...birth alone is mute To sounds that echo further west, Than your sire's " Islands of the Blest." 3. The mountains look on + Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea: And musing there an hour alone, 4. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born + Salamis ; And ships by thousands lay below,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857
...harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of hirth 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 i And musing there an hour alone,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1977 - 756 sidor
...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 be free, For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
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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 a slave. 
