 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 sidor
...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...rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed—in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 sidor
...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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 sidor
...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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now* And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy ' Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 sidor
...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...waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch a? creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 sidor
...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...thy wild waves' play : — Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow : — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 5. Thou glorious mirror, where... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 sidor
...borders of the ocean, with its own unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts:—not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play:...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHILOE HAKoLB, Canto iv. CHAPTER XXVI. Subterranean changes at great depths below the surface indicated... | |
 | 1866 - 728 sidor
...shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...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 - 1833 - 232 sidor
...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...rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing... | |
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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' play — Time writes no wrinkle on... 
