 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
 | English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. * * » * * ' Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...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,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...They melt into tny yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's* pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.f 6. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,... | |
 | William Huffington - Delaware - 1839 - 500 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...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... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 488 pages
...Byron in the following sublime apostrophe to the Ocean, with which I will conclude this discourse. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...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... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 522 pages
...Byron in the following sublime apostrophe to the Ocean, with which I will conclude this discourse. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...waves, which mar Alike 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,...not 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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...These are thy TOYs',and', as the snowy flake', They melt into thy yest of waves', which mar', Alike', the Armada's pride', or spoils of Trafalgar.'* Thy...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'... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pages
...the phrase that were born of the occasion, when thus I looked and thought upon thee, Eternal Sea ! Thy shores are empires, changed in all, 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— The stranger,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 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... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1841 - 996 pages
...unknell'd, uncomn'd, and unknown ! • • • • • Thy shores are empires, changed in all tare thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are...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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