 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 368 pagini
...himself upon the mass of carcasses below, after having sung a melancholy dirge:— Place me on Griffon's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, pig-like, let me grunt and die, The last of hip-po-po-ta-mi. Thoughts on Naval Tactics.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pagini
...have the letters Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? Canto iii. Stanza 86. v. 10. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. Canto iii. Stanza 86. v. 16. The precious porcelain... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pagini
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep— Where nothing,...save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 320 pagini
...bowl with Samian wine ! Our virgins dance beneath the shade— I see their glorious black eyes shine; Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pagini
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er bo mine — Dash down... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 pagini
...king who buys and sells — But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die ; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pagini
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. her words"; she was his sight, For his eye follow'd hers, and saw with hers, Which colour'd sweep : There, swan-like, let me sing ami die I A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 268 pagini
...have kept his spirit to that flight, he had been happy." — Byron. 21. Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. — Byron. TENSE. 1O1. DEFINITION. 1. Tense denotes the... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pagini
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die ; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 pagini
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down... | |
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Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine! 
