Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ! Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5021848Full view - About this book
| Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...general character ? LESSON XXVIII.—JANUARY THE TWENTY-EIGHTH. The Ocean an Image of Eternity. KOLL on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. 2. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...a reality so important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious! LESSON XCI. QUANTITY. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...before, To mingle with the nniversc, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...Time. HOWITT. 1 The Falls of Tivoli. • The house of Horace. * The glow-worm. TO THE OCEAN. ROLL on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery... | |
| John Walker Ord - 1845 - 434 pages
...the brilliant galaxy of bards, has spoken more nobly than our own immortal Byron : — ^" Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel, What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain... | |
| James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 pages
...abroad ! " Melancholy : — " Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste " — Grandeur : — " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ! " Anger : " And dar'st thou, then, To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall... | |
| General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...mingle with the universe, — and feel \Vbat I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean ! — roll ; Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain :— Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery... | |
| 1845 - 398 pages
...close ketch em,' and a walk of fifteen minutes brought us in full view of the old Atlantic. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery... | |
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