| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 sidor
...resistance. CVlMjrma. is no less a resort of painters than of pirates ; there LXXXVII. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled. And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 sidor
...thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied vBtCt g ryw r s w_x4g X x0w freeborn wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy long, long snmmer gilds, Still in his beam... | |
| William O. Blake - 1855 - 1010 sidor
...classic associations, and the ruins of ancient art and splendor scattered over it. " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves,...olives ripe as when Minerva smiled. And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields, There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 632 sidor
...suggested the beautiful eighty-seventh stanza in Canto IL of ,Childe Harold :— " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves...fields, Thine olives ripe as when Minerva smiled. And all his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 376 sidor
...resistance-. (Vlw,na is no IBPS a resort of painters than of pirates ; there LXXXVI. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1856 - 794 sidor
...recollections thrilled like the sound of a trumpet through the heart of Europe ? " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee... | |
| John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 sidor
...of Russia ? Well may we be proud of our countrymen ! The poet proceeds to say— " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields. Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled. And still his horned wealth Hymittus yields, There the blithe bee... | |
| Samuel Rogers, William Maltby - 1856 - 382 sidor
...that the lines which first convinced him that Byron was a true poet were these; " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still hia honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 434 sidor
...that the lines which first convinced him that Byron was a true poet were these ; " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1856 - 362 sidor
...thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain air ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam... | |
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