 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 376 pages
...Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. ' Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— I Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? , Thy waters wasted them while they were free, I And many a tyrant since; their shores obey I The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay ' Has dried... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch a? creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou glorious mirror, where... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...flake,' They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar Alike the armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. .t Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee—...thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...He sinks into thy depths, with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now* And I have loved thee, Ocean... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — • Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou glorious... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1866 - 728 pages
...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. " Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,...obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has driod up realms to deserts ; not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play : Time writes no... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...They melt into thy yest of waves', which mar', Alike', the Armada's pride', or spoils of Trafalgar. 'E Thy shores are empires', changed in all save thee'...thy wild waves' play' — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure'' brow' — Such' . . as creation's dawn beheld', thou rollest now'. Thou glorious mirror',... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...empires which have flourished and fallen on the borders of the ocean, with its ovn unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not...to thy wild waves* play : Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow ; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. 273 CHAPTER... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...of immutability be applicable to any thing in this world, it is to the ocean, and not to the land ! Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what arc they? Thy waters washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey.... | |
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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... 
