 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
 | 1848 - 798 pages
...predominating characteristic of the whole wrathful and scornful song? Was his previous confession of faith utterly false and hollow? If sincere and substantial, what in a moment shattered it ? " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee." This is good in temper... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man." Grandeur. Vastness. 75. "Roll on, thon deep and dark blue ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain." 76. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty'* form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...linger long in silent woe ; But live — until I cease to be. APOSTROPHE 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death ! VI. — THE OCEAN.— 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 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 The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar Roll on, thou deep, and dark, blue Ocean, — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain! The armaments which thunderstrike the walls of rock-built cities The oak leviathans, whose... | |
 | 1849 - 820 pages
...all his readers remember, runs thus : 382 The Corinne, or Italy, of Madame de Staèl. 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... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1849 - 146 pages
...to anything on the surface of our planet, it is to the ocean and not to the land ! — Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his controul Stops with the shore : — upon the watery... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death ! VI. — THE OCEAM.— 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... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...mingle with the universe and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll 011 , f linn 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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