 | Thomas Fisher - Climatology - 1845 - 240 pages
...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...Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now." 142 merchant ships of every nation, and of every style of naval architecture, as in actual service... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 1 " The grand object of all travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...1630 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...shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay 1635 Has dried up realms to deserts: - not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play Time... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - Literary Collections - 2002 - 324 pages
...changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 150 Thou glorious minor, where the Almighty's form Classes itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or... | |
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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' play — Time writes no wrinkle on... 
