 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy ye ast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals. The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...arbiter of war ; These- are thy toys, and, as the snowy Hake, They melt into thy yeast of waxes, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arhiter of war ; These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake,...pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,... | |
 | 1830 - 614 pages
...monarch* tremble in their capitals ; The oak levia'hans, whose hug* ribs make Their clay creator the vniti title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These...toys, and, as the snowy flake. They melt into thy vest of wave*, which mar Alikfe the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Ttrr snores are empires,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make ^i Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...bidding nations qnake, And monarehs tremble in their eapitals. The oak leviathans, whose hnge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy tops, and, as the snowy flake. They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride,... | |
 | 802 pages
...the phrase that were born of the occasion, when thus I looked and thought upon thee, Eternal Sea ! Thy shores are empires, changed in all, save thee...Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waters washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey—- The... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1866 - 728 pages
...bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...or spoils of Trafalgar. " Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
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The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These... 
