 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths ; Ships, sailorless, lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd, They slept on the ahyss without a + surge. The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave ; The moon, their mistress,... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships, sailorless, lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal — as they dropped They slept on the abyss without a surge. The waves were dead, the tides were in their grave,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down...no need Of aid from them — She was the Universe. Diodati, July, 1810. STANZAS TO THE PO. RIVEE, that rollest by the ancient walls, Where dwells the... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1854 - 352 pages
...And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge— 9. The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave...clouds perish'd : Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the universe. LESSON CXLVL Hannibal* to Scipio Africanus, at their interview preceding... | |
 | Old Traveller - Adventure - 1854 - 312 pages
...lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropped, They slept on the abyss without a surge. The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless, lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropped They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave,... | |
 | 1854 - 44 pages
...lakes, und ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships, sailorless, lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropped They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead ; the tides were in their graves... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down...no need Of aid from them — She was the Universe.' Diodati, July, 1816. 1 [" Darkness" is a grand and gloomy sketch of the supposed consequences of the... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1855 - 444 pages
...| lay rotting on the sea1 ; | And their mas^s fell down pieces-meal ; | as they dropp'dj They slepi on the abyss, without a surge^. — | The waves were...clouds perish'd. — | Darkness had no need Of aid from thenii — | she ,. was the irniverse. I (ADDISON.) Lucius, Sempronius, and Senators. Semp. Rome still... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1856 - 794 pages
...Ships snilorless lay rotting on the sea, [dropp'd And their masts fell down piecemeal: As they Th«y slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves were...tides were in their grave The moon their mistress had expir'd hulnre ; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd ; Darkness had... | |
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Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell... 
