 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 páginas
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into tny yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's* pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.f 6. Thy shores are... | |
 | 1838 - 938 páginas
...monarchs tremble iu their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge libs make Their clay creator the vaiii title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These...toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. " Thy shores are empires,... | |
 | 1838 - 876 páginas
...in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title lake Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. " Thy shores are empires,... | |
 | 1871 - 608 páginas
...into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. * * » * * ' Thy shores are empires, 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 shores obey The... | |
 | William Huffington - 1839 - 500 páginas
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...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,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 páginas
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. RE!, I (; I ON. 275 4. Thy shores arc empires, changed in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome,... | |
 | 1839 - 320 páginas
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals ; The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar like the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 páginas
...nations quake', 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 yest of waves', which mar', Alike', the Armada's... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 488 páginas
...Byron in the following sublime apostrophe to the Ocean, with which I will conclude this discourse. " 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,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 páginas
...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...Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waten washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey— The... | |
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The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, 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... 
