 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' play — Time writes no wrinkle on...  The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 80by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1055 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed—in... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 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...waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch a? creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 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...thy wild waves' play : — Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow : — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 5. Thou glorious mirror, where... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...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.... . as creation's dawn beheld', thou rollest now'. Thou glorious mirror', where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests'; in all time', *N4'tshure.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...empires which have flourished and fallen on the borders of the ocean, with its ovn unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. 273 CHAPTER IX. CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOS. Intimate connexion between... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 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...Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror,... | |
 | Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. (1) [When Lord Byron wrote this stanza, he had, no doubt, the following passage in Boswell's Johnson... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since, their...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed... | |
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