 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sidor
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all Rave thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 success. We subjoin an amusing and instructive fable...by this worthy divine : — The Chameleon. Oft has deserte : not so thou ; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play. Time writes no wrinkle on thine... | |
 | Quaver - 1844 - 552 sidor
...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...stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up reahus to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play ; Time writes no wrinkle... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 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,... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 sidor
...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,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 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...beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where th' Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale,... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - 1845 - 240 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." 142 merchant ships of every nation, and of every style of naval architecture, as in actual service... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 1 " The grand object of all travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were... | |
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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... 
