 Thy waters washed them power 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...  English Poetry (1170-1892) - Page 367by John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 580 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their...to thy wild waves' play Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now, Thou glorious mirror, where the... | |
 | John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 pages
...empires, chang'd in all save thee, Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a Tyrant since; their...Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests, in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm Icing- the pole, or in the torrid clime, Dark-heaving,... | |
 | George Angier Gordon - Christianity - 1916 - 384 pages
...Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore. • •••••••»• Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time...Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving;... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1917 - 856 pages
...empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free, And many a tyrant...Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - Readers - 1918 - 424 pages
...Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters washed them power while they were free, 5 And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger,...play. Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow: 10 Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - Readers - 1918 - 488 pages
...Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters washed them power while they were free, 5 And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,...waves' play. Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow : 10 Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form... | |
 | Recitations - 1908 - 622 pages
...changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their...Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them free wilderness — Man, one harmonious soul of many...beautiful through love: Labor, and pain, and grief, in li thy azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thon rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 202 pages
...changed in all save thee; Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their...to thy wild waves' play; Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry - 1923 - 888 pages
...Alike the Armada's pride, and spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy...Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving... | |
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