 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like nine ? Must we but weep o'er days more bleat ? • Must we but blush ! — Our fathers bled. Earth !...hundred, grant but three ' To make a new Thermopylae. * Sappho was lorn in the island of Lesbos, t XcrxM. You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must me but weep o'er days more bless'd '! Must me but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back...Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylw ! What ! silent still? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1832 - 456 pages
...Earth! render back from ont thy breast A remnant of onr Spartan dead ! Of the three hnndred grant bnt three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?...and silent all? Ah! no; — the voices of the dead Soand like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, — Bnt one arise — we come,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. 7. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth 1 render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 376 pages
...suffuse my face; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. 7. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ?—Our fathers bled. Earth I render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...left the poet here ! For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! Must we but blush ?—Our Father's bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast What silent still... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 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 Thermopylfe ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no ; the voices of the dead Sound like a distant... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 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 1 render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1838 - 1380 pages
...was delivering this strong appeal, that the quotation might not unnaturally have occurred to him, " Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae." He did not see, that there was anything unmanly in not struggling for a principle which was at present... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 pages
...the poet here 1 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...new Thermopylae. What, silent still ? and silent all t Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living... | |
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