Roll on, thou deep and dark, blue Ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Lord Byron. Man marks the earth with ruin; his control Stops with the shore : upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's... Southern Quarterly Review - Page 112edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
| Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - English literature - 1925 - 490 pages
...black bat, night, hath flown." In these, inanimate objects are addressed as though animate: "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;" "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude." "Oh, Rome, my country!... | |
| Charles Henry Woolbert - Oratory - 1927 - 560 pages
...fancy. The following passages read best with the effusive form prevailing: THE OCEAN LORD BYRON Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll! Ten thousand...sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth... | |
| Abram Samuel Isaacs - Jewish literature - 1928 - 176 pages
...addressing the waves of the ocean and not the crowd of boys before him, he began with spirit: "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;" completing with marked emphasis four verses, which were sufficient for the occasion. He grew... | |
| Sara Stinchfield Hawk - English language - 1928 - 356 pages
...the east and Juliet the sun ! 2. Sweet and low, sweet and low, wind of the western sea. 3. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Disposition of musical instruments in the orchestra. (Philharmonic) C — Conductor 4. 6. Ah... | |
| James Williams - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 220 pages
...over the fort and camp: I think of those majestic lines of Byron which you know I love — "Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain"13 and I think of the fleet which now hovers somewhere over our southern waters = if it is destined... | |
| Romulus Linney - American drama - 1981 - 72 pages
...light is on Ada, seated in her chair, but lit with Byron, traveling as he does. Music.) ADA. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean —roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Stops with the shore — ( Wind again, rising.) BYRON. And thus I am absorb'd, and this is life,... | |
| Herman Melville - Fiction - 1976 - 448 pages
...this whole allusion is a hoax with its notion of 'coal' supplied from 'Blackheath'. 183. Lord Byron's Address to the Ocean Roll on, thou deep and dark blue...ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain! (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto VII, stanza 179) What is droned here 'through a port-hole'... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet can not all conceal. CLXXIX Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; 1605 Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore; - upon the watery plain... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Marino Faliero You have deeply ventured; But all must do so who would greatly win. 1991 Roll on, thrui vain; strange; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore. If from Society we... | |
| Cliff Gerwick - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 682 pages
...Japanese summer, while later providing high lateral shear resistance in the cold Arctic waters. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" Marine and Offshore Construction Equipment 5.0 General... | |
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