 | 1866 - 728 Seiten
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...or spoils of Trafalgar. " Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 Seiten
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 Seiten
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 Seiten
...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 —...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... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 Seiten
...flake, They melt into the yeast of waves, which mar Alike th' Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. 4. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee :...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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 Seiten
...thee, and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy 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— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 Seiten
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thce, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 362 Seiten
...vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, 1 They 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 — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 Seiten
...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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The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These... 
