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" 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... "
The works of ... lord Byron - Page 106
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818
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History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon, in MDCCCXV to the ..., Volume 2

Archibald Alison - Europe - 1855 - 506 pages
...of Europe ? " Yet arc thy skies as bine, thy crags aa wild ; Sweet arc thy groves, and verdant arc thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled,...wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his (Vagrant fortress buildl, The frceborn wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo »till thy long, long...
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The Volume of the World: Embracing the Geography, History, and Statistics ...

William O. Blake - Geography - 1855 - 1010 pages
...beauties, than its classic associations, and the ruins of ancient art and splendor scattered over it. " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olives ripe as when Minerva smiled. And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields, There the blithe bee...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 7

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 632 pages
...turn, appear to have suggested the beautiful eighty-seventh stanza in Canto IL of ,Childe Harold :— " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves and verdant are thy fields, Thine olives ripe as when Minerva smiled. And all his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee...
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Outlines of History: Illustrated by Numerous Geographical and Historical ...

Marcius Willson - History - 1855 - 628 pages
...childhood— t mournful, to the soul.11 "Yet are thy skies ns blue, thy crags ns wild; Sweet are thy grove?, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettiis yield». There Ihe blithe bee his fragrant forlre-s» build». The free bora wanderer of...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 376 pages
...any effectual resistance-. (Vlw,na is no IBPS a resort of painters than of pirates ; there LXXXVI. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain-air; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam...
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English Lands, Letters and Kings ...

Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1897 - 320 pages
...groves, and verdant are thy fields ; Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields. There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of the mountain air ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beams...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 478 pages
...groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain air; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam...
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The Isles and Shrines of Greece

Samuel June Barrows - Greece - 1898 - 456 pages
...men, art thou ! Thy vales of evergreen, thy hills of snow, Proclaim thee Nature's varied favorite now. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields. There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer...
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The Isles and Shrines of Greece

Samuel June Barrows - Greece - 1898 - 460 pages
...groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields. There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain air ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam...
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A History of Greece for High Schools and Academies

George Willis Botsford - Greece - 1899 - 452 pages
...the supervision of the powers of Europe. Though two thousand years have wrought great changes, — Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet...There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain-air; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam...
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