| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...shores are empires ', chang'd in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 1 " The grand object of all travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 Seiten
...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...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where th' Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1990 - 594 Seiten
...empires which have flourished and fallen, on the borders of the ocean, with its own unchanged stability. Their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CHAPTER XXVI. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced by earthquakes at great depths below the... | |
| George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 Seiten
...And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Mas dried Dp realms to deserts : — not so thou; — Unchangeable,...play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow: Sncli as creation's dawn beheld, thon rollest now. CLxxxm. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 Seiten
...1630 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...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... | |
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