 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...  Fly - Page 601839Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores...Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them whde they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...arbiter of war—*- • A These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,...:—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar A like the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to desarts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...war : These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, Theymelt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike like another world ; a liquid sun — And those inordinate...rears hid dripping raane and vasty Head ten times stronger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy «höre* are empires, changed in all вате thee — Assyria , Greece , Rome , Carthage , what...many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, «lave, or savage; theirdecay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so I linn , Unchangeable save... | |
 | John Cole - 1827 - 166 pages
...war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores...slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts:—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes no wrinkle on thy azure... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores areempires,changed inallsavethee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy...:—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 888 pages
...Trafalgar. CLXXX II. Thy shores are empires, changed in all »ave thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Curtilage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free. And many a tyrant unce ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Ha* dried up realm«» to desert»:... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores...not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...war! These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy ye ast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores...not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest... | |
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