 | John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...tomb of the 192 Athenians who fell in the battle. No monument marks the graves of the Persian dead. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...on the sea; — And musing there an hour alone, I drcam'd that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's grave. 1 could not deem myself... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Europe - 1854 - 460 pages
...classical antiquity, " Where grew the arts of war and peace ; Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung. The Scian and the Teian Muse. , , The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the feme your shores refuse ; • • "** Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further... | |
 | Randal William McGavock - Europe - 1854 - 412 pages
...completely hemmed in on all sides by mountains, except the ocean side, and beautifully cultivated. " The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour,alone, ' I dreamed th^it Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...Delos rose, and Phoobus 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, rousing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For, standing on the Persian's... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - English poetry - 1855 - 188 pages
...peace,— Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's...To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Island of the Blest. The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...peace,— Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set The Scian and the Teian Muse, The hero's...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... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Seian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the, lover's...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,... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...rose and .Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The-Scian and the Teian Muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute,...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 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 grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | P. A. Fitzgerald - Elocution - 1855 - 296 pages
...Where Delos rose, and Pkebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except th«ir 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 frotj For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself... | |
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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. 
