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
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 522 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 .'" LECTURE II. 1. Introductory observations. 2. Extinction of animals. 3. Animals extirpated by human... | |
| John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pàgines
...their decay Has dried up realms to deserts. Not so thou, Unchangeable ever, to the wild wave's play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now. And appealing, with a yet more still voice — lo ! the waters address us as household sages. The world... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pàgines
...dried up realms to deserts ; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, — Tini9 writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 5. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or... | |
| Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1840 - 392 pàgines
...their 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." Let man but . open his eye, tune his ear, and teach his heart to feel, and nature will reveal Him whose... | |
| William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 pàgines
...that remains unchanging amidst the perpetual changes of the land, and to which Byron sublimely sang— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now ! This phenomenon is obvious, not only as regards those strata of marine formation which occur the... | |
| Anna Eliza Bray - 1841 - 996 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 convuls'd... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 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. CLXXXHI. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pàgines
...decay ' Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' pby — . петег hope to shareJ ' XXXI. AÍ .--Л-- More bleak to view the hills at length recede,,"^ CLXXXni. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time.... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pàgines
...dri'd 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 roIlest now,. | Thou glorious mirVor, 'where the Almighty's form, Glasses itself in tenrpesfe ; | 2in... | |
| 1842 - 480 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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