 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy hosom to the skies, And send'st him, shiv'ring on thy playful spray, And howling to his 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 walls... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...destruction thon dust all despise, Sporning him from thy husom to the skies, And send'st him, shiv'ring on thy playful spray, And howling to his gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or hay, And dashesl him again to earth : — there let him lay. The armaments which thanderstrike the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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, to...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 walla... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...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, to...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth ;— there let him lay. CLXXXI. The armaments which thunder-strike the... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1866 - 728 pages
...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...haply lies His petty hope in. some near port or bay, And dashest him to earth — there let him lay. " The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...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, to...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth ; — there let him lay. CLXXXI. The armaments which thunder-strike... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...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,...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth :—there let him lay. The armaments which thunder-strike the walls... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...He sinks into thy depth with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 3. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...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... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...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,...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 walls... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...destruction', thou dost0 all DESPISE', Spurning him' . . . from thy bosom to the skies', And sendst him', shivering', in thy playful spray', And howling...lies' His petty hope', in some near port or bay', And dashctt him again to earth': — there let him lay'.' The armaments which thunderstrike the walls'... | |
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... the vile strength he 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, to his Gods, where haply lies his petty hope in some near port or bay;... 
