 The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2241818Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth ; — there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capilals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...He sinks into thy deplbs, with bubbling groan, Without a grave, uiiltnelloJ, uacoffined, and unkosvz The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, . And monarch) tremble, in their capital!, The oak leviathans, whote huge rite make Their cUy creator, the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...port or bay, And dashest him again to earth ; — there let him lay. The armaments which thundcrstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,...vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; 220 These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...And das lies t him again to earth: — there lut him layť CLXXXI. The armaments which thunder-striue s way, The mightiest of the storms hath taV capital, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make The ir clay creator the vain title toko Of lord of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...Capo of Terracina.— [See Historical notes , at the end or tin amo. No. \X4l.-li.j 163 And monarehs tremble in their capitals. The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their day creator the vain tille lake Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. CLXXXI. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy Sake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...strains: "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...nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into the rest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's... | |
 | England - 1848 - 806 pages
...His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth ; — there let him lay. " The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar jj Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save... | |
 | England - 1848 - 802 pages
...or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. " The armaments which thunderstrikc the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,...of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, antl, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. The armament which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities,...capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Then: clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and... | |
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