 Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets 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 remain A shadow of man's ravage,...  A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed - Page 459edited by - 1916 - 889 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The...rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The...rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown ! The armaments, which thunderstrike the walls... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks...rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffin'd, and unknowa. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...— roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore ;— upon the watery plain The...rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoflin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The...rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan. Without a grave, unkneU'd, uncoffln'd, and unknown. CLXXX. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...ocean, roll ' Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin; his control Stops with the shore. Upon the watery plain The wrecks...rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoflined, and nnkrown " Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...— roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The...rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The...rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown ! The armaments, which thunderstrike the walls... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 540 pages
...— roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks...rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and alone. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee.... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Creation - 1849 - 146 pages
...series of necessary operations, by which Dr. Paris. D2 Man marks the earth with ruin — his contronl Stops with the shore : — upon the watery plain The...rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, nnknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown ! Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee,... | |
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