 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
 | Cornelius Conway Felton - 1860 - 594 pages
...independence will be for ever associated, in equal honor, with the glories of Leónidas. Byron sang " Of the Three Hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae." This prayer was almost literally fulfilled by Diakos and two of his officers, Kalyvas and Bakoiannes,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. t. 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 ! 8. What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...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...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae, f • Salamis is an island off the coast of Attica, near which the Persian fleet, during the invasion... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er d«ys more blest 1 Must we but blush 1 — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy...three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still 1 and silent all 1 Ah i no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer,... | |
 | John Gardner - 1862 - 134 pages
...that words and signs have power O'er sprites in planetary hour. —Scott's " Lay of the Last Minstrel" Ah no! the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall! — Byron's "Hymn to Modern Greece." That Bards are second-sighted is nae joke, And ken the lingo of... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...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! render back...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae I What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah! no; the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | John Purdue Bidlake - 1863 - 224 pages
...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness.' ' May one be pardoned, and retain the offence ?' ' Earth, render back from out thy breast A remnant of...the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thermopylne. ' Then the progeny that springs From the forests of our land, Armed with thunder, clad... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae 1 What, silent still? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1865 - 480 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...Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylse ! 8. What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 320 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...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,... | |
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