 Must w but weep o'er days more blest ? 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.  The North American Review - Page 37edited by - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 pages
...suffuse my face ; For what is left a poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush...hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae.' (29) 'Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man.' (30) 'They stood... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...suffuse my face j For what is left the poet here ! Fur Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush...from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Ot the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...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...fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no;—the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1866 - 328 pages
...make a whole *s nation ! We do not want an army of great men to save a nation ; we only want one : " Of the three hundred, grant but three To make a new Thermopylae." We only wanted one Howard; and our prisons were purified ; we only wanted one Miss Nightingale, and... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pages
...bosom beats no more ! And must thy +lyre, so long divine, +Degenerate into hands like mine ? 6. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush...hundred, grant but three, To make a new +Thermopylae ! 7. What, silent still? and silent all 7 Ah ! no ! the voices of the dead Sound like a distant "'"torrent's... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - 1870 - 964 pages
...poet here ? For Greeks a blush— for Greece a tear. "Most we but weep o'er days more blest » Must MM but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth, render back from...Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylte ! "Whnt! silent still, and silent all? Ah 1 no : the voices of the dead Sound like a distant... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...huiidie«! grunt but three, To make a new Tlicrmopy lie ! 8. •What, silent still î «nd silent nil ? AU ! Bui one nrise,— we come, we come ! " 'T is but the living who are dumb. 9. In vain — In vain :... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 pages
...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...three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still 1 and silent all I Ah I no ! — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...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...Of the Three Hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylse 1 What, silent still ! and silent all ! Ah 1 no ! — the voices of the dead Sound like... | |
 | 1868 - 904 pages
...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 fathers bled. Earth ! render back from ont thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new... | |
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