 Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!  The Tragedies of Sophocles - Page 57by Sophocles - 1823Full view - About this book
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. . Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - Greece - 1845 - 510 pages
...each glowing maid, ££ My own the burning tear-drop laves. To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves. To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. 28 EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. A land of slaves shall ne'er... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan- like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...hope of courage dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall ne'er... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...on each glpwing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and 1, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die ; A land of slaves shall... | |
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