 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further 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 Persian's... | |
 | Christopher Cooke - 1864 - 330 pages
...the vicinity ; for now Byron's stanza seems more than ever applicable to this memorable plain : — 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...place of hirth alone is mute To sounds which echo further 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 dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1864 - 434 pages
...is heard in common conversation and description, and in moral reflection, or calm reasoning ; as, 1. 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...491. Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. Canto il\. Stanza 86. v. 1. 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. Canto lli. Stanza 86. v. 3.... | |
 | 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'... | |
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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. 
