 | 1837 - 396 pages
...return.' THE SEA. " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean roll! ******** Unchangeable save to ^hy wild waves play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine...brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now."—Childe Harold. All sail was now crowded upon the ship, as the Captain was anxious to double... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Science - 1990 - 594 pages
...empires which have flourished and fallen, on the borders of the ocean, with its own unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHAPTER XXVI. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced by earthquakes at great depths below the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Science - 1990 - 594 pages
...unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so Hum, Unchangeable, gave to thy wild waves' play : Time writes no wrinkle on...thine azure brow ; Such as creation's dawn beheld, them rollest now. CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. CHAPTER XXVI. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...vain; Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore; 3 Time writes no wrinkles Still falls the RainDark as the world of man, black as our lo^s Blind 4 Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity, — the throne Of the Invisible!... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Mas dried Dp realms to deserts : — not so thou; — Unchangeable,...play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow: Sncli as creation's dawn beheld, thon rollest now. CLxxxm. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - Poetry - 1995 - 276 pages
...unknown" (4.179), and furthermore Byron seems to admit that the ocean alone is unfurrowed by mortality: "Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — /Such as Creation's dawn beheld, Thou rollest now" (4.182). But omnipotence of thought really has no limits. Suddenly the ocean resembles a Byronic hero:... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay 1635 Has dried up realms to deserts: - not so thou, Unchangeable...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form 1640 Glasses itself in tempests; in all time,... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - Art - 2001 - 360 pages
...beginning of time. this great expanse of elemental power — or. for Harold. its creator — has existed: Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld. thou rollest now l182l. Whatever the true nature of his religious beliefs. Byron intends his persona to give voice to... | |
 | Paolo Chiarini, Walter Hinderer - Europe - 2006 - 500 pages
...ewig, er kennt keine Ruinen, hat keine Geschichte und ist so herrlich wie am ersten Schöpfungstag: Not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves'...play Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow Such äs creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. (182) Steffi Roettgen Tra „Hauptstadt der Welt" e „Deutsches... | |
 | Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ephraim Weber - Literary Collections - 2006 - 313 pages
...'Who can contemplate Fame through clouds unfold The star which rises o'er her steep, nor climb?' — 'Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now' — But I am forgetting myself. It is a letter I am writing not an essay. To go from Byron to Wilson... | |
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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 to deserts : not so thou ; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves 
