 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.  The World and Its Inhabitants - Pàgina 126per Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 328 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1836 - 798 pàgines
...may be extended from the earth's waters to every other form of matter : — "Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now." If we start with the supposition, that the properties of the elements depend upon their size or form,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 pàgines
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — 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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pàgines
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou gloiious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 294 pàgines
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — 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 - 1837 - 356 pàgines
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheldj thou rollest now. 1 [When Lord Byron wrote this stanza, he had, no doubt, the following passage... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pàgines
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests, in all time,... | |
 | 1871 - 608 pàgines
...Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou ; — Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow ; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. * This is the correct reading. The older editions have — ' Thy waters wasted them while they were... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pàgines
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — 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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pàgines
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 6. Thou, glorious mirror, \vhere the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, (Calm... | |
 | William Huffington - 1839 - 500 pàgines
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — 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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