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" Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky 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... "
The English Orator: a Selection of Pieces for Reading & Recitation - Page 148
by James Hedderwick - 1833 - 216 lehte
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 lehte
...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' "Islands of the Bless'd." 3. The mountains look on Marathon', And Marathon looks...Greece might still be free : For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 4. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er...
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The Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in ...

Epes Sargent - 1858 - 450 lehte
...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 Persian's grave, I could not deem...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 lehte
...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 grave, I could not deem myself...
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Poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 lehte
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest."f The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with life

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 lehte
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further went 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 Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...
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A Grammar of the English Tongue, Spoken and Written: For Self-teaching and ...

Hyde Clarke - 1859 - 200 lehte
...place of birth alone is mute To sounds, which echo further west, Than your sires' islands of the West. "The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour aZone, I dreamed that Greece may still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not...
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Lectures on the British Poets, 2. köide

Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 lehte
...The associating harmonizing energy of the poetic faculty blends all the elements in perfect union:— "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 grave, I could not deem myself...
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The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises ...

Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 lehte
...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 grave, I could not deem myself...
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Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 lehte
...with the deep emotion of the solitary human being standing in the midst of them : 278 LECTURE NINTH. "The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an houi alone, I thought that Greece in;ght still be free ; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 lehte
...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...rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ahips by thousands lay below, And man in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day...
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