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" 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 494
1848
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 6

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...
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Last London Edition ...

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...
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Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth Century

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...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

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...
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A Treatise on International Law: And a Short Explanation of the Jurisdiction ...

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...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

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...
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The universal class-book: a ser. of reading lessons

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...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 7

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...that beautiful passage near the close of Childe Harold, the 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 The...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

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...
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National Preceptor

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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