 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...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 Persians'... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...of Marathon, situated between a range of mountains on the one side, and the sea on the other : — 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... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...found the fame your shores refuse; Their place of 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, I dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest."t The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still bo free ; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | Barbara Jelavich - 1983 - 436 pages
...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'd dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...you see. OxBoLi 40 The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung, 41 e mind musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...place of birth alone is mote To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest." TnlM"ng there an hour alone, I dreanVd that Greece might still be free For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | Julius Rowan Raper, Melody L. Enscore, Paige Matthey Bynum - 1995 - 222 pages
...from the famous "isles of Greece" lyric that this local bard offers for the lovers' entertainment: 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'... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly "To gild refined gold, or paint the lily.' 1964 Don Juan good, Heroic womanhood. 6508 To say the least, a town life makes musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free. 1965 Don Juan ... That all-softening,... | |
 | William Peter Hamilton - 1998 - 372 pages
...contractors who fed and clothed and armed the "five million men" in the army of the victorious Xerxes? "The mountains look on Marathon — and Marathon looks on the sea," and they may continue looking at each other, until the crack of doom, without telling us the cost of the... | |
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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. 
