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" The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse : Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'  "
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Lord Byron: Don Juan

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don - 1977 - 772 pages
...They could not look more rosy than before. 2 The Scian and the Teian Muse, The hero's harp, the brer's lute Have found the fame your shores refuse. Their...further west Than your sires' 'Islands of the Blest'. 3 The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I...
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History of the Balkans: Volume 1

Barbara Jelavich - History - 1983 - 436 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'd dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem...
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英美名詩一百首

American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...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, Have found the fame your shores..."Islands of the Blest". The mountains look on Marathon @ 本詩為長篇敘事詩( 唐, 磺) @ Don 丁uon @ 第三章 中片段。 @ 1 @ 莎孚@ 公元前610...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...harp, the lover's Inte, Have found the fame your shares refuse : Their place of birth alone is mote To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'...on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea ; And TnlM"ng there an hour alone, I dreanVd that Greece might still be free For standing on the Persians'...
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Lawrence Durrell: Comprehending the Whole

Julius Rowan Raper, Melody L. Enscore, Paige Matthey Bynum - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 222 pages
...from the famous "isles of Greece" lyric that this local bard offers for the lovers' entertainment: 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' grave, I could not deem myself...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse: 10 Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which...mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; 15 And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians'...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly "To gild refined gold, or paint the lily.' 1964 Don Juan good, Heroic womanhood. 6508 To say the least, a town...liberal in one's judgement of others. If we could 1965 Don Juan ... That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul - the dinner bell....
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Elysium

John W. Wohlfarth - Religion and politics - 2001 - 409 pages
...generations after have not gotten out from under. Chapter 17 THE LORD WILL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER! 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' grave, I could not deem myself...
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In Byron's Shadow: Modern Greece in the English and American Imagination

David Roessel - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 416 pages
...III (1820), which became the single most important philhellenic text, particularly stanzas 3 and 7: The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave . . . Must we weep o'er days more blest? Must we blush?...
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Goethe Yearbook 11

Simon J. Richter, Simon Richter - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 462 pages
...A verse from "The Isles of Greece" in Don Juan illustrates Byron's early philhellenic perspective: The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, 1 dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...
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