...In Italy he 'd ape the " Trecentist! ; " In Greece, he 'd sing some sort of hymn like this V ye: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set...

...that all or almost all Sappho's poems 'were recited by herself informally to her companions'.1 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and recited'? In that generally admirable volume The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986) we look...

...in that land, wrote: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where grew the arts of war and peace; Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. Herodotus, the famous Greek historian, made this solemn prediction: Greece will be strong and a match...

...lived, and love as I have loved; To dust if I return, from dust I sprung, X The Isles of Greece 1 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! 5 Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2 The Scian and the Teian muse,...

...NEW TESTAMENT, St. Paul, in Titus, 1:12. Cited by Paul, this remark is attributed to Epimenides. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set....

...aettos—Pentelikon—-Pikermi—Marathon—JEgina—The Oros—Laurion— Sunion—Cape Colonna. THE IONIAN ISLES. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, 4 THE MEDITERRANEAN Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal...

...attitude to it is hostile. 87. Cf. Kirkwood, Early Creek Monody 148-49. Byron's famous lines, "The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung" (Donjuán 3.86.1), supplied the title for West's important article. TWO Sappho's Afterlife in Translation...

...neighborhood. He chose Byron's salute to Greece's lesbian poet laureate, Sappho, and declaimed, " 'The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung.' " Charles Jarvis was present that night, and recalled that the boys began to heckle Sammy, one yelling...

...contractors who fed and clothed and armed the "five million men" in the army of the victorious Xerxes? "The mountains look on Marathon — and Marathon looks on the sea," and they may continue looking at each other, until the crack of doom, without telling us the cost of the...

...used to train them in clear enunciation at the Convent School and contained lovely things like The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung 53 and sweet mournful poems such as He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is...