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... Moral and Sacred Poetry - Página 90de Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 296 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1871 - 608 páginas
...groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. * * » * * ' Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free,* And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,... | |
| William Huffington - 1839 - 500 páginas
...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. •Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,...to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 522 páginas
...apostrophe to the Ocean, with which I will conclude this discourse. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — • Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,...to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now .'" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 488 páginas
...apostrophe to the Ocean, with which I will conclude this discourse. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,...to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now !" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 páginas
...the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. RE!, I (; I ON. 275 4. Thy shores arc empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,...so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, — Tini9 writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.... | |
| 1839 - 320 páginas
...of waves, which mar like the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage...not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playlime writes no wrinkles on thy azure brow iich as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou... | |
| John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 páginas
...save thee : Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waten washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey—...dried up realms to deserts. Not so thou, Unchangeable ever, to the wild wave's play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 páginas
...which mar', Alike', the Armada's pride', or spoils of Trafalgar.'* Thy shores are empires\ changed in all save thee' — Assyria', Greece', Rome', Carthage',...what are they'? Thy waters wasted them while they were/ree', And many a tyrant since'; their shores obey' The stranger', slave', or savage'; their decay'... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 páginas
...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,...to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXHI. Thou glorious mirror,... | |
| Anna Eliza Bray - 1841 - 996 páginas
...unknell'd, uncomn'd, and unknown ! • • • • • Thy shores are empires, changed in all tare thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are...save to thy wild waves' play ; Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where... | |
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