Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won. Bear witness, Greece, thy living page, Attest it many a deathless age ! While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept... The works of lord Byron - Page 226by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...While kings, In dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier...stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die ! "Г were long to tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendour to disgrace ; Enough — no foreign... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...countenance preserves its traits of feeling or ferocity, and the mind its bias, to the last.— B. A mightier monument command, The mountains of their...stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die ! 'Twere long to tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendour to disgrace : Enough — no foreign... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native laud ! (1) The transition here to another variation of the same theme, l'ya change of key, as it were,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...countenance preserves ita traits of feeling or ferocity, and the mind ita bias, to the last.— ft. A mightier monument command, The mountains of their...native land ! There points thy Muse to stranger's eya The graves of those that cannot die ! 'Twere long to tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendour... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1860 - 372 pages
...While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native landl There points thy Muse to stranger's ey The graves of those that cannot die! 'Twere long to tell,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier...stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die ! 'Twere long to tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendour to disgrace : Knough — no foreign... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...While kings, in dusty darkness bid. Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb A mightier monument...thy muse to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannov die ! 'Twere long tc tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendor to disgrace ; Enough —... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier...mountains of their native land ! There points thy Mu=e to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die ! 'Twere long to tell, and sad to trace,... | |
| 1862 - 812 pages
...While kings in dusty darkness hid Hare left a nameless pyramid. Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier...stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die!" War, when viewed in this light, as waged in defence of liberty and Fatherland, as in ancient Greece,... | |
| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid ; Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier...stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die. 'Twere long to tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendour to disgrace ; Enough—no foreign foe... | |
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