 | 1847 - 312 pagina’s
...He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pagina’s
...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...arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy Sake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.... | |
 | 1848 - 806 pagina’s
...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...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar jj Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save... | |
 | 1848 - 310 pagina’s
...He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, 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... | |
 | 1848 - 798 pagina’s
...or bay, And dashest him again to earth ; — there let him l«f. " The armaments which thnnderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,...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 - 1848 - 428 pagina’s
...nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Then: clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee,...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... | |
 | 1848 - 802 pagina’s
...Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, antl, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves,...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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pagina’s
...spray And howling, to his gods, where haply lies His petty hopes in some near port or bay, And (lushest him again to earth : —there let him lay. The armaments...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;... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 320 pagina’s
...He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown ! The armaments, which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are theyl Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pagina’s
...The armaments which thimderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake. And monarehs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose...empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, where 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... 
