 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 pages
...in its ministry of wrath, and recounts, as with a fierce joy, its dealings with its victim, man ! " The vile strength he wields For earth's destruction,...spray, And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies * " A Thought of the Sea." His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...of rain, lie sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan — Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, $ again to earth : there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrikc the walls Of rock-built cities,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan — Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, , just twinkling on thy brow, Suffices thee ; save that the moon again to earth : there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoflm'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, —...gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near fort or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. The armaments which thunder-strike... | |
 | John Walker Ord - Cleveland (England) - 1845 - 434 pages
...remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths, with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd,...petty hope, in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth ; there let him lay." Childe Harold, Canto IV. v. 179 & 180. So writes in scornful magnificence... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoflined, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, —...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 cities,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknow; 3. His steps arc not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, Then dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. 4. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise [wields And shake him from thee; the vile strength he For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning...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 cities,... | |
 | John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...bosom to the skies', And send'st him shivering', in thy playful spray', And howling*, to his godsv, where haply lies' His petty hope in some near port or bay', And dashest him again to earth* : — there let him lay.* The armaments which thunder-strike the walls' Of rock-built... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Royal Robbins - American literature - 1845 - 342 pages
...For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And scnd'st him, shivering in thy playful spray, , And howling to his gods, where haply lies BYRON. MOORE. 211 His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: — there... | |
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His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And sendst him,... 
