 | George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 2000 - 134 pàgines
...Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now, Where glory decks the hero's bier, Or binds his brow. VI The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory and Greece,...Spartan, borne upon his shield, Was not more free. VII Awake ! (not Greece - she is awake !) Awake, my spirit ! Think through whom Thy life-blood tracks... | |
 | Brigitte Glaser - 2001 - 678 pàgines
...eine menschliche Weise. Und kaum waren die erschütternden Töne seines letzten Liedes verklungen: The sword, the Banner and the field, Glory and Greece, around me see! The Span .m, borne upon his shield, Was not more free! so vollstreckte das Schicksal das Seherwort des... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 416 pàgines
...here — Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now Where glory decks the hero's bier, Or binds his brow. The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory...shield, Was not more free. Awake! (not Greece — she is awake!) Awake, my spirit! Think through whom Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake, And then strike... | |
 | David Roessel - 2001 - 416 pàgines
...this day I complete my thirty sixth year," composed for his birthday on January 22, 1824, he said: Thy Sword — the banner — and the Field, Glory and...shield, Was not more free! Awake! (not Greece — she is awake!) Awake my spirit — Think through whom Thy Life-blood trickles its parent lake, And then... | |
 | Christopher John Murray - 2004 - 664 pàgines
...participate in the cause of liberation, and he would soon meet his death there. In "On This Day" he writes, The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory and Greece,...Spartan, borne upon his shield, Was not more free. One also finds similar sentiments in Francisco Jose de Goya's politically charged The Third of May... | |
 | Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Merry G. Perry - 2004 - 372 pàgines
...situation, "Where glory decks the hero's bier." In the poem's most cited stanza he directs attention to "The sword, the banner, and the field, / Glory and Greece, around me see!" Trying to convince himself against all evidence to the contrary, he proclaims, "Awake! (not Greece—... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pàgines
...here — Such thoughts should shake my soul nor now, Where glory decks the hero's bier, Or binds his brow. The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory...shield, Was not more free. Awake! (not Greece — she is awake!) Awake, my spirit! Think through whom Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake, And then strike... | |
 | Patrick Leigh Fermor - 2006 - 284 pàgines
...this thirty-seventh birthday and shortly before he died, is surely a sincere picture of his feelings. The sword, the banner and the field Glory and Greece, around me see! A1QNIA HMNHMH TOY The Spartan, borne upon his shield Was not more free. Awake! (Not Greece — she... | |
 | Judith Pascoe - 2006 - 252 pàgines
...not here Such thoughts should shake my soul; nor now When glory seals the hero's bier Or binds his brow. The Sword — the Banner — and the Field; Glory and Greece around us see! The Spartan borne upon his shield Was not more free! But even though Byron's narrator distances... | |
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The hope, the fear, the jealous care, The exalted portion of the pain And power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain. But 'tis not thus — and... 
