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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. "
Nugae Criticae: Occasional Papers Written at the Seaside - Page 244
by Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 492 pages
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Poetry for Home and School ...

Anna Cabot Lowell - 1846
...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'...
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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - 1846 - 306 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'...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 504 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'...
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Anthologia Oxoniensis, decerpsit G. Linwood

Anthologia Oxoniensis - 1846
...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'...
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Dolman's magazine [ed. by M.G. Keon and E. Price]., Volume 4

Miles Gerald Keon - 1846
...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...
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The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book

Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 12 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...
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The Select Poetical Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 406 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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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Seires for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 426 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 Persian's...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - 1850 - 395 pages
...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' 'Islands of the Ulest.' The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there m hour alone, I dreamt that Greece hiig.it still be free ; For, standing on the Persians'...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 38

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851
...roso üml I'm» âã** sprung; Eternal summer «¡Ids (hum yel, But all, except their sun, ¡a set. 'The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea, And 111××11 • there an hour atone, I deemed that (¡reece might still be free ; For, standing on the...
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