Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they { Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms... The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution - Page 238by John Connery - 1861 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to desarts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...Assyria, (j recce, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy walers wasted them while they were free, Aud many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger,...realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save lo thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow! ..... * , . . . 1 , I 1 U CLXXVH... | |
| 1828 - 814 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Has dried up realms to deserts ; — not so thou,...to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle in thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where... | |
| Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,...to thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle in thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Calm or convnls'd — in... | |
| Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee — Assyria, Greeee, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores ohey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their deeay Has dried op realms to deserts ; — not so thou,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, . Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-h.ec.ving... | |
| 1830 - 614 pages
...Trafalgar. Ttrr snores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Home, Carthage,— what are they * Thy waters wasted them while they were...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to <!<--<-rt* : not so tbou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes no wrinkles on thine... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1830 - 386 pages
...CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free,...stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried itp realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they I Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thins azure browSuch as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest Mar. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1831 - 342 pages
...listened to the Almighty Word, and responded with all its billows to the song of the morning stars. ' Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow ; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.' It is this immutability, which, more than any other of the attributes of ocean, perhaps, impresses... | |
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