 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...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,...for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depth with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 3. The armaments which... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1866 - 728 pages
...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,...When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into the depths, with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. " His steps are... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain, The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth.remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a...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'?... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...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,...Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown ! His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And... | |
 | Michael Scott - Cuba - 1833 - 400 pages
...sweep over thee in vain : Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with tile shore, — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed,...drop of rain He sinks into thy depths with bubbling gronn, Without a grave, unknell'd, uucoffin'd, and unknown." Childe Harold. I HAD been invited to breakfast... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1056 pages
...watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, AVhen for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy...depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd. uncoffia'd, and unknown." I HAD been invited to breakfast on board the corvette, on the morning after... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1032 pages
...murks th.1 earth with ruin— his control Stop* with the shore, — upon the watery plain The wreck* are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, W hvn for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan. Without a grave,... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1834 - 702 pages
...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,...Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown." Childe Harold. I HAD been invited to breakfast on board the corvette, on the morning after this ; and... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...sweep over thee in rain ; Han marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed,...his own. When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, lie sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan. Without a grave, unknelt'd, uncornn'd and unknown. His... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...control' Stops with the shore'; — upon the watery plain' The wrecks are all thy deed', nor dothc remain' A shadow of man's ravage', save his own', When', for a moment',d like a drop of rain', He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan', Without a grave', unknelled',... | |
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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, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage,... 
