 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857
...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 looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 448 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sire's " Islands of the Blest." 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'... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 432 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further 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 Persian's... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 480 pages
...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' "Islands of the Bless'd." 3. 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 Persian's... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest."f 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'... | |
 | Hyde Clarke - 1859 - 152 pages
...place of birth alone is mute To sounds, which echo further west, Than your sires' islands of the West. "The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour aZone, I dreamed that Greece may still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's... | |
 | HENRY REED - 1860
...The 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... | |
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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. 
