 Thy waters wash'd 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...  The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 82by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1055 pagesFull view - About this book
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...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...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 Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 312 pages
...free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Etas dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's forn Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm orconvuls'd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,what are they ?( t Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their...— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now CLXXXUI. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time,... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 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...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—... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 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...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... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 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...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... | |
 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 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...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... | |
 | 1847 - 312 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...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...are they ? 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores ohey And round her lamp of fretted gold Bloom flowers in urns of China's mould ; cLxxxm. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm... | |
 | 1848 - 798 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...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... | |
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