Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed... Advanced Readings and Recitations - Page xixby Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 450 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...and feel' What I can ne'erb express', yet cannot all conceal'. '' Roll on\ thou deep and dark-blue ocean' — roll'! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee...the watery plain' The wrecks are all thy deed', nor dothc remain' A shadow of man's ravage', save his own', When', for a moment',d like a drop of rain',... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...before, To mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand...Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. ********* The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1835 - 328 pages
...race is the only rival of his fame.* LESSON CVIII. The Ocean an Image of Eternity. — BYRON. ROLL on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand...into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknclled, uncoffined and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil... | |
| Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. 2. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll I Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks...for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depth with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 3. The armaments which... | |
| Michael Scott - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1835 - 360 pages
...CRUISE OF THE WAVE. " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — гоП.' Ten thousand fleets sweep nver thee in vain : Man marks the earth with ruin — his...deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage save hn own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without... | |
| Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 pages
...over beauty gone, And in the fate that waited thee, Reads what will be his own. OCEAN. BYRON. ROLL on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand...into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unkneH'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. The armaments which thunder-strike the walls " Of rock-built cities,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...ne'er express, yet can not all conceal. CLXXIX. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll I Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks...into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore ;—upon the watery plaiu The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow...'Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths—thy fields Are not a spoil for him—thou dost arise And shake him... | |
| Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 350 pages
...the gloomy, yet elevated melancholy of Byron, we may present his APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean— roll! Ten thousand...Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, —thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake... | |
| Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...the gloomy, yet elevated melancholy of Byron, we may present his APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll! Ten thousand...Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. * His steps are not upon thy paths, —thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And... | |
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