 | Isaac Brandon - 1811 - 598 pages
...changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time,— Calm ot... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...changed in all save thee— As-yria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,'what are they? Thy wattrs wasted fh< m while they were free. And many a tyrant since; their...shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their ftecay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to desarts :—not so thou, / Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play—...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXI1I. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 550 pages
...savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts—not so thou, Unchangeable save thy wild waters' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convuls'd—in... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1823 - 402 pages
...while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; then- decay Has dried up realms to deserts:—not so thou,...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,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Hast dried up realms to deserts :—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play—...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,... | |
 | George Burges - 1824 - 150 pages
...mixed, alas! with so much that is repulsive, this everlasting world of waters. " Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow— Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now."" I can pause over that " vast and wondrous monument," the Coliseum, and call up unhappy forms from the... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1825 - 494 pages
...tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, siave, or savage ; their decay Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Has dried up realms to deserts :—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Thou glorious... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...obey The stranger, «lave, or savage; theirdecay Has dried up realms to deserts :—not so I linn, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such a« creation'« dawn beheld, thon rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses... | |
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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 thine azure brow— Such... 
