 His steps are not upon thy paths, - thy fields Are not a spoil for him, - thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering...  The British orator - Page 280by Thomas King Greenbank - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan — Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffined, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths —...spoil for him — thou dost arise And shake him from ihee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from... | |
 | 1852 - 1170 pages
...with respect to a word in another stanza (180th) of the same canto, which I shall quote entire. " Mis steps are not upon thy paths — thy fields Are not...And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay." The blot which... | |
 | Louis Malaher - 1852 - 184 pages
...moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unkncll'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy...despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece. Home, Carthage, what are they... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths—thy fields Are not a spoil for him—thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength...skies, And send'st him. shivering in thy playful spray Howling in agony, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - 1996 - 364 pages
...sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 180 His steps are not upon thy paths, - thy fields Are...And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: - there let him lay. 181 The armaments... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, 1610 He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and...And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields 1615 For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - 1997 - 324 pages
...corruption and ambition, something unruinable and in that sense eternal. Man's steps, he says to the ocean, are not upon thy paths, - thy fields Are not a spoil...And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: - there let him lay. (4: 180) The contempt... | |
 | H. S. Toshack - 2001 - 135 pages
...a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 180 His steps are not upon thy paths, - thy fields 20 Are not a spoil for him - thou dost arise And shake...skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray 25 And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - 2001 - 360 pages
...unto itself and a realm in which the human creature is out of his element: His steps are not upon thv paths. — thy fields Are not a spoil for him. —...wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise. Spuming him from thy bosom to the skies. And send'st him. shivering in thy playful spmy And howling.... | |
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