 | 1852 - 196 pages
...They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. The shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria,...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,... | |
 | Louis Malaher - 1852 - 184 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece. Home, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decayHas dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Borne, Carthage, what are they Г Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their...obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Mas dried Dp realms to deserts : — not so thou; — Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play, Time... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII 1630 Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee Assyria,...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... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - 2001 - 360 pages
...Greece. Rome. Carthage. what are thev? Thy waters washed their power while they were free. And manj a tyrant since: their shores obey The stranger. slave. or savage: their decay lIas dried up realms to desarts [...]. Jerome McGann pinpoints the great importance of this stanza... | |
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And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike... 
