 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 sider
...And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathians, whose huge ribs make Their clay-creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
 | William Huffington - 1839 - 500 sider
...thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain...empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since;... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 sider
...His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth ; — there let him lay. 3. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. RE!, I (; I ON. 275 4. Thy shores arc empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome,... | |
 | 1839 - 320 sider
...He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Vithuut a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls ' Of rock-built...toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar like the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 sider
...petty hope in some near port or bay, ". And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. CLXXXI. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock.built...empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they { Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 sider
...The armaments which thnnderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations qnake, And monarcbs ir dignity increased. Ш. In \ enice Tasso's echoes...meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone — CLXXXIL Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
 | 1842 - 480 sider
...For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And seud'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to...empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 sider
...Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth:—there let him lay. " The armaments which thunderstrike the...toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. " Thy shores are empires,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 sider
...sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. CLXXX. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 sider
...He sinks into thy deptlis with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since;... | |
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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... 
