 | 1851 - 278 pages
...something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter' d race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fethers bled Earth ! render back... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...something in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...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 ! render back... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel, at least, a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...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 ! render... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel, at least, a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...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 ! render back... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel, at least, a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...left the poet here ? For Greeks, a blush, — for Greeee, a tear ! Must wo but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled.... | |
 | Charles Rann Kennedy - 1853 - 168 pages
...something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...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 ! render back from... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...something in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. r. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...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 ! render back... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...something in the dearth of fame. Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face; For what is...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, render back... | |
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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! 
