 Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell...  The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Sida 579redigerad av - 1816Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 sidor
...lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropped, They slept on the abyss without a surge. The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave... | |
 | 1817 - 608 sidor
...lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths: Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down...had expired before; The winds were wither'd in the stag-riant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the universe.'... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1815 - 324 sidor
...lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down...their mistress had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd ; Darkness had no need Of aid from them — She... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 88 sidor
...lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down...their mistress had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd ; Darkness had no need Of aid from them— ,She... | |
 | 1816 - 696 sidor
...lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred witliiu their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down...dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge— The waives were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress had expired before ; The winds... | |
 | 1816 - 572 sidor
...The populous and the powerful was a lump, Scasonltss, herbless, treeless, manless, lifclfts.' — ' The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave,...their mistress had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perished ; darkness had no need Of aid from them — She... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 210 sidor
...lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down...their mistress had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them— She... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 sidor
...lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress had expired before ; The... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 sidor
...stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, They slept on the abyss -without a surge — The waves...no need Of aid from them — She was the universe. CHURCHILL'S GRAVE, A FACT 1.ITERALLV RENDERED. I STOOD beside the grave of him who blazed The comet... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 304 sidor
...lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down...clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the universe. CHURCHILL'S GRAVE, A FACT LITERALLY RENDERED. I STOOD beside the grave... | |
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