 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 sidor
...maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves, Place me on Sunmm's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sidor
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing,...save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down... | |
 | 1846 - 436 sidor
...the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. 28 EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing,...save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine, — Dash down... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 sidor
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing,...save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan- like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 sidor
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 sidor
...on each glpwing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and 1, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die ; A land of slaves shall... | |
 | Sophocles - 1849 - 376 sidor
...than common grief!" 3 Similar to this is the complaint of the herald in the Agamemnon of jEschvlus. 3 It was probably from these lines that Lord Byron took...murmurs weep, — There, swan-like, let me sing and die. 4 Shamest thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught, To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart?... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 sidor
...own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. 16. Place me on Suni urn's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : ' A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down... | |
 | Sophocles - 1851 - 364 sidor
...ÙKUàvs ¡%*%Я Trts 6x\¿TTn¡ tiTTÍ. The Oxfonl Translator observes that it ivas in all probability from these lines that Lord Byron took the hint for...weep, — There, swan-like, let me sing and die." 1159. Tàf ïiçàts '¿TUS. SciIOL : ^i^oTt^vas tî/pçaim revs ¿xcoup'ivous íix TU» traitai TUS... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 sidor
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing,...save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die ; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down... | |
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Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine! 
