 Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae 1 What, silent still?  Poetry of Byron: Chosen and Arranged - Page 66de George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 276 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...feel, at least, a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse mv fane i . For what rs*leTt the poet here ? For Greeks, a blush, — for Greece, a tear ! Must...fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnint of our Spartan dead ! Of the tLrre hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a. blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush I — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 pages
...feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as 1 sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush— for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must ice but blush ?— Our fathers bled. Earth I render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pages
...feel at least a patriot's shame, E'en as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks — a blush ; for Greece — a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear. Must we...Thermopylae. What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no j — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head,... | |
 | P. A. Fitzgerald - 1855 - 296 pages
...the poet here f For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a ten. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed f Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled; Earth !...from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead I Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! Sound like a di&taut torrent's fall,... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...shame, E'en as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? Our father's bled ! Earth ! render back from out thy breast, What, silent still! and silent all ? Ah! no,... | |
 | 1855 - 592 pages
...Davenant, of Toplady and of Wilberforce, from being crushed by the stealthy involutions of Puseyism. " Of the three hundred grant but three, to make a new Thermopylae." But a brave heart, wedded to a competent hand, and a sound head, is not found to save her. If prophecy... | |
 | 1867 - 288 pages
...the poet here ? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed f Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled; Earth !...hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise — we come,... | |
 | 1856 - 282 pages
...feel at least a patriot's shame. Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear! Must we but weep o'er days more blessed? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled; Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant... | |
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