Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer... The Quarterly Review - Page 325edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled. And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain-air; Apollo still thy... | |
| Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain air ; Apollo still thy... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...mortal birth, So perish all in turn, save well-recorded worth : Yet are her skies as blue, her ways as wild ; Sweet are her groves, and verdant are her...still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of her mountain air ; Apollo still... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 350 pages
...Her olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer...gilds, Still in his beam Mendeli's marbles glare : Art, QUory, Freedom fail — but Nature still is fair. Since these lines were written, Greece has regained... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; / Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, ';' Thine on cheval étant tombé de lassitude, il se coucha quelques heures au pied d'un arbre, en blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds. The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant arc thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy... | |
| John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - Greece - 1845 - 510 pages
...are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The freebom wanderer of thy mountainair ; Apollo still thy... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine blithe bee hia fragrant fortress builds, The frecbom wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant arc thy fields, Thine although from thcc. blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds. The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine asp on gasp. CLXI. Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and l blithe bee hi« fragrant fortress build*, The freebom wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo stil1 thy... | |
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