 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 ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no — the voices of the dead Sound like...  The Twentieth Century - 402. lappuse1880Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 lapas
...Spartan dead ! Of the three' hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae 1 What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead...' Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, wo come ! " 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain ; strike other chords ; Fill high... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 lapas
...Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ! and silent all ? Ah, no ; the voices of the dead Sound...come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine ! Leave battles to the... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1860 - 480 lapas
...fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast What! silent still,—and silent all! Ah! no—the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, " But one arise,—we come, we come! " 'Tis but the living who are dumb." In vain—in vain ! strike other chords... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 lapas
...Spartan dead ! 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...come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. 9. In vain — in vain; strike other chords} Fill high the cup with Samian wine ! Leave battles to... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 lapas
...band of three hundred Spartans, under Leonidas, who were at last all (lain. 43* What, silent still? and silent all ? Ah ! no — the voices of the dead...come, we come ! " 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain ; strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine ; Leave battles to the... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 lapas
...Spartan dead ! Of the Three Hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What ! silent still ? and silent all ? Ah, no ! — the voices of the dead...come, we come ! " ' Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine ! Leave battles to the... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 lapas
...three hundred grant but 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...come, we come ! " 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain ; strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine ! Leave battles to the... | |
 | John Gardner - 1862 - 134 lapas
...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... | |
 | 1901 - 872 lapas
...another magnificent example of Byron's lyrical power in the "Isles of Greece," where the two lines, Ah, no! the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, drop suddenly into the elegiac strain, Into a mournful echo that dwells upon the ear, followed by the... | |
 | Benjamin Bradford - 1979 - 44 lapas
...LIKES MY MIND. I GUESS IT IS MY BEST PART." (He opens a book and reads aloud.) What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no; — the voices of the dead...we come, we come!" Tis but the living who are dumb. (As he closes the book.) In vain, in vain ; strike other chords . . . (A beat.) "THAT LIVING HEAD.... | |
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