 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 4 A king sate on the rocky brow 20 Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands,...break of day And when the sun set where were they? 3 630 THE ISLES OF GREECE 5 25 And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless... | |
 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 332 pages
...Byron's satire of Southey into the innermost drama of his own mind. Consider the ballad's f1fth stanza. And where are they? and where art thou, My country?...lyre, so long divine. Degenerate into hands like mine? An act of poetic ventriloquism multiplies the pronominal references in these lines. The Romaic poet... | |
 | Samuel Eliot Morison - History - 2001 - 460 pages
...the scene of Xerxes' defeat by Themistocles exactly 1414 years earlier. To paraphrase Byron, "Fritz counted them at break of day - and when the sun set, where were they?" « Com Desdiv 25 (Cdr. Ellis) and Niblack Action Reports. 3. Air Attacks on Convoys™ SeptemberNovember... | |
 | Florence Nightingale, Gérard Vallée - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 581 pages
...corrupted here. And within a stone's throw of his splendid tomb is the court where the Mamelukes died;82 he counted them at break of day, and when the sun set where were they? He sleeps now close to the murdered chiefs and people can forget that murder, and laud Muhammad Ali!... | |
 | 廖七一 - Poetry - 2006 - 362 pages
...brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations;@all were his! He counted them at break of day@ And when the sun set, where were they? V And where are they? And where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless... | |
 | M. B. Synge - History - 2013 - 213 pages
...their laws, we lie." 28. VICTORY FOB THE GREEKS. "A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-bom Salamis : And ships, by thousands, lay below, And...break of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? " — BYBQN, HAVING gained the pass, it was natural that Xerxes should lead his army on to Athens.... | |
 | Anthony Pagden - History - 2008 - 576 pages
...Persian army, to be greeted by the wrath of Xerxes.63 'A king sat on the rocky brow', wrote Byron, Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands...break of day And -when the sun set where were they? It had been the greatest naval battle in ancient history. It had also been a victory gained by Athenian... | |
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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. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks... 
