Thy shores are 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 ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms... Annual Report of the Commissioners ... - Page 541901Full view - About this book
| 1818 - 638 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee—...Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were fre6, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave,... | |
| England - 1848 - 788 pages
...changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, liome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, . And many a tyrant since ;...their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow —... | |
| England - 1818 - 762 pages
...empire*, changed in ;H save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their...obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay H as dried up realms to desarts : — not so thou. Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes... | |
| 1818 - 806 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave,... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 648 pages
...flake They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. ' Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since : their shores obey The stranger, slave,... | |
| 1821 - 438 pages
...flake, 'They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are 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 ; their shores... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...flake , They melt into thy yeast of waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee...Greece , Rome , Carthage , what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they we free , And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger , slave ,... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...changed in all save thec — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they i Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to desarts : — not so thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...melt into thy yeast of waves , which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. 43* 675 Thy shores are empires , changed in all save thee...Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their sliores obey The stranger, slave,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave,... | |
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