John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5782 George Gordon Noel Byron
| NUMBER: | 5782 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | Place me on Sunium’s marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 16. |
| Note 1. See Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Quotation 52. [back] |