 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 ;...  The works, of ... lord Byron - Page 75by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...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 ofthee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...rock-built cities, bidding nation's quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome,... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Home, Carthage,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...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...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 shores are empires,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals ; The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make « Their clay creator the vain...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, what... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...leviathans, whose huge rihs make Their clay ereator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arhiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake,...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. • CLXXX|L Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...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...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. VOL. i. 18 CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...bay, And dashest him again to earth, — there let him lay. The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs makes Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...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,... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...tremble in their capitals. The oak-lev iathans, whose 1 1 upc ribs make Their clay-creator the tain held him? Cain. Many of the same kind (at leant so call'd) , l!ni never that precisely which Theymelt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...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 ihee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of... | |
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