Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow: Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in... The English Poets - Page 285edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 448 pages
...conviction that on ourselves depends the happiness or interests of the person beloved. CHAPTER VIII. " And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful...from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to mo Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear ; For I was,... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 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...be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton' d with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror... | |
| Forget-Me-Not, Forget-me-not - 1853 - 138 pages
...pole; or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving . boundless, endless and sublime, The image of eternity—the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The...be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers—they to me Were a delight; and if the fresh'ning sea Made them a terror—'twas... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...;— boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; evun hat VOM are well, and a letter or two on business fn:m Hanson, bu Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantou'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...clime Dark-heaving ; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity— the throne Of th' Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of...loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was ou thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward ; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers— they... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 344 pages
...or + convulsed; in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving ; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity,...thee; thou goest forth, dread, + fathomless, alone. BYEOX. QUESTIONS. — What is the society which exists where none intrudes 1 What is meant by " oak... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1906 - 476 pages
...convulsed—in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving;—boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of Eternity ; the...thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. Byron. As the day advanced, that portion of the inmates of the vessel which had the liberty of doing... | |
| Robert M. Ryan - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 312 pages
...qualified immediately by a prayerlike verse apostrophizing the sea as a mighty emblem of Divinity.32 Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses...thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. (4: 183) The imagery recalls Job's encounter with the Whirlwind (chapters 38-41), but what seems at... | |
| G. Wilson Knight - Literary Collections - 2002 - 324 pages
...creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 150 Thou glorious minor, where the Almighty's form Classes itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed,...thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. (iv, 181-3.) Throughout The Prophecy of Dante the theme of political liberty is weighed down, loaded,... | |
| George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time — Calm or convuls'd — in breeze, or gale, or storm — Icing the Pole, or...thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. (iv, 183) In 'storm' the sea is certainly at its grandest, and it is just because tempest forces it... | |
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