 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
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 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,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which inar 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, or... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Vlike 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 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, what are they ? Has dried up realms to deserts ; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, chang'd 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,... | |
 | 1830 - 614 pages
...changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Home, Carthage,— what are they * Thy waters wasted them while they were free. And many a tyrant since ; their...slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to <!<--<-rt* : not so tbou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes no wrinkles on thine... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1830 - 386 pages
...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...stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried itp realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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,... | |
 | 802 pages
...the phrase that were born of the occasion, when thus I looked and thought upon thee, Eternal Sea ! Thy shores are empires, changed in all, save thee...Carthage — what are they ? Thy waters washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey—- The stranger, slave, or Mvage... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 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 — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they I Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,... | |
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