 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 488 pagine
...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,...waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now !" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory observations.... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 522 pagine
...— • 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,...waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now .'" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory observations.... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pagine
...— Assyria', Greece', Rome', Carthage', what are they'? Thy waters wasted them while they were/ree', And many a tyrant since'; their shores obey' The stranger',...wild waves' play' — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azureh brdw' — Such' . . as creation's dawn beheld', thou rollest now'. Thou glorious mirror', where... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pagine
...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,...so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, — Tini9 writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.... | |
 | 1839 - 320 pagine
...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,...not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playlime writes no wrinkles on thy azure brow iich as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pagine
...Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waten washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey— The stranger,...dried up realms to deserts. Not so thou, Unchangeable ever, to the wild wave's play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's... | |
 | 1840 - 808 pagine
...He sinks into thy depths, with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown! Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests! In all tune,— Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or, in the torrid clime, Dark-heaving,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pagine
...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,...waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXHI. Thou glorious mirror, where the... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1841 - 996 pagine
...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,...waves' play ; Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pagine
...— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they '.VV Thy waters wasted them while they were free, ruler of the waters and their powers : And such she was ; — herdaughters had their dowers thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' pby — . Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow —... | |
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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 to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves 
