 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...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 Persian's... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 818 pages
...BC Who does not remember the burning lines of Byron in allusion to that said battle of Salamis ? " 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther 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 Persians'... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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'... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 pages
...Delos rose, and Phœbus 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'... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Bless'd." 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'... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...Delos rose, and Phœbus 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'... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 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 Persian's... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Bless'd." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea : And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still might be free ; For, standing on the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 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 Persians'... | |
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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. 
