 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depth with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 3. The armaments which... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1866 - 728 pages
...upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into the depths, with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. " His steps are... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks...wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray, And howling,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 362 pages
...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...him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; thevilestrengthhewielda For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1032 pages
...watery plain The wreck* are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, W hvn for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy...depths with bubbling groan. Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoflin'd, and unknown." I HAD been invited to breakfast on board the corvette, on the morning after... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1056 pages
...watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, AVhen for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy...depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd. uncoffia'd, and unknown." I HAD been invited to breakfast on board the corvette, on the morning after... | |
 | Michael Scott - Cuba - 1833 - 400 pages
...upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own. When for a moment, like a drop of rain He sinks into thy depths with bubbling gronn, Without a grave, unknell'd, uucoffin'd, and unknown." Childe Harold. I HAD been invited to breakfast... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1834 - 702 pages
...upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks...Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown." Childe Harold. I HAD been invited to breakfast on board the corvette, on the morning after this ; and... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1834 - 536 pages
...world. Of the handed despot, proudly may we say to Britain, as Ocean may say of man, — • " Hie steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not...— thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the Tile itrength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise !" n Scopuli nequicqnam et spumea... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...drop of rain, lie sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan. Without a grave, unknelt'd, uncornn'd and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths,— thy fields Are not a spoil for him, &c. Then after an intervening passage of the same tenor, the 182nd stanza concludes with the wellknown... | |
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Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy... 
