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 Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4941848Full view - About this book
| 1840 - 326 pages
...came upon my spirit with a soothing power, and I exclaimed with the immortal bard — 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 thy shore. Upon the watery plain... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...Terracina.— [See Historical Notes, at the end of this Canto, No. XXXI. -I..F..1 CLXXIX. Roll on, thou distant Glory dear, \Vhen Marathon became a magic word; (I) Which utle in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain... | |
| 1842 - 480 pages
...all was lost beside, Were found, and still are fix'd, in thee — ADDRESS 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 plain... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou fourd, ' carefully elaborated ; yet never were works written in a highe in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain... | |
| Daniel Gardner - 1844 - 336 pages
...illustrates God's sovereignty of the seas in the following sublime description : 15 169 " 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 wat'ry plain... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...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... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...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... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...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... | |
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