| 1840 - 808 pages
...sinks into thy depths, with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown! Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests! In all tune,— Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or, in the torrid clime, Dark-heaving,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXni. Thou iuriant, smoother vales extend; jr Immense horlZull-Tiounded...plains succeed! Far as the eye discerns, withouten end, clime Dark -heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of... | |
| William Plumer - American poetry - 1841 - 160 pages
...bolder spirits rise to keener life, And feel, with each assault, fresh vigour spring ; THE OCEAN. I. Calm, or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or, in the torid clime, Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime. BYRON. Bred inland, I had reached my... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1906 - 476 pages
...mirror, where the Al mighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed—in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving;—boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of Eternity ; the throne Of the... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1989 - 512 pages
...recover, and the measure would at once be the means of placing a superior in his shoes. Chapter XVI. "Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed-in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving;-boundless,... | |
| Gayle L. Ormiston - Science - 1990 - 236 pages
...Universe, and feel / What I can ne'er express" (canto 4, stanza 177), describes nature as the . . . glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time. Calm or convulsed—in breeze, or gale, or storm— Icing the Pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving—boundless,... | |
| Carl Mitcham - Philosophy - 1994 - 410 pages
..."to mingle with the Universe, and feel / What I can ne'er express" (4.177), describes nature as the glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses...gale, or storm — Icing the Pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity. (4.183) Nature, thus... | |
| George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow: Sncli as creation's dawn beheld, thon rollest now. CLxxxm. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses...time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or roll ! Dark-heaving— boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form 1640 Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed...or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; - boundless, endless, and sublime The image of Eternity - the throne 1645 Of the... | |
| Robert M. Ryan - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 312 pages
...qualified immediately by a prayerlike verse apostrophizing the sea as a mighty emblem of Divinity.32 Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses...or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; - boundless, endless, and sublime The image of Eternity - the throne Of the Invisible;... | |
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