 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
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...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...waves' play Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty'l form... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1851 - 352 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...creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 1170 pages
...all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while Ihey were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now." I have copied out to the end of the stanza ; for in fact it is not easy to stop the pen when copying... | |
 | American poetry - 1852 - 196 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...to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable, save to the wild wave's play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 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 Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 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... | |
 | Treasury - 1853 - 276 pages
...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...— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now I Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time. Calm or... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 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... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 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... | |
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