 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...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 48by John Wilson - 1842Full view - About this book
 | 1818 - 638 lehte
...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...creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious niirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convuls'd —... | |
 | 1902 - 642 lehte
...mutability of human affairs with the steadfastness of the ocean, which the poet apostrophises as ' Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play ; Time...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.' * Book ii. chapters 10-12. t See 'Danmarks Stilling og Tilstand,' by HJ Hanson, Ph.D., FM Linn. Soc.,... | |
 | 1848 - 788 lehte
...obey The stranger, slave, or savage : their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thon, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. " Than glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or... | |
 | 1838 - 884 lehte
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow— Such as creation's..." Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing... | |
 | 1818 - 762 lehte
...decay H as dried up realms to desarts : — not so thou. Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollcst now. 183. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all... | |
 | DAVID WILLISON - 1818 - 572 lehte
...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 thine1 azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where... | |
 | 1821 - 438 lehte
...so thou. Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow — *udi 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— in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 lehte
...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...• Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now CLXXXIII. Thou glorious mirror , where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests, in tempests... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 lehte
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thout Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' pity — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such...now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convuls'd — in breeze , or gale, or storm, Icing... | |
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