 | 700 pages
...Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free horn wanderer of thy mour'.ain air; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam... | |
 | 1813 - 706 pages
...Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied 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... | |
 | 1812 - 1020 pages
...are .thy tk-'-b, Thin« olive j ipc as when: Minerva srail'd, And still his honied wealth Hyihcltitl yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds. The freeborn wanderer of thy mountainair ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam Mcndcli's marbles glare ;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 pages
...laid dry, this one feature of the country has remained unaltered : — ' And still his honcy'd store Hymettus yields, There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain-air.' The honey here collected used to be reserved for the especial eating of the archbishop... | |
 | 1825 - 776 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 frce-bom wanderer of thy mountain air ; Apollo Mill thy long, long summer, gilds. Still in his beam... | |
 | 1811 - 600 pages
...Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd ; And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe...mountain air ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still-in his beam Mendeli's marbles glare : Art, Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair. '"... | |
 | Anonymous - 1812 - 512 pages
...still considerable remaim : ft was seized hy Thrasy bulus previous to the expulsion of the Thirty .' There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam Memleli's marbles glare: Art, Glory, Freedom fails, but Nature still is fair.' — p. 104. The foregoing... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1812 - 314 pages
...Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe...fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam Mendeli's marbles glare... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1813 - 424 pages
...Unhappy Greece! Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus y,elds! There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds—...summer gilds, Still in his beam Mendeli's marbles gUre; Art, glory, freedom fails, but nature still is fair." Childe Baraldt, POETRY. THE RAINBOW. OBEN... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 334 pages
...Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe...fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam Mendeli's marbles glare... | |
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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... 
