Thou glorious mirror, where the 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... The North American Review - Page 32edited by - 1825Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheldj thou rollest now. 1 [When Lord Byron wrote this stanza, he had, no doubt, the following passage... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow...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 ;... | |
| 1838 - 938 pages
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as...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 ; —... | |
| 1838 - 876 pages
...thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure browSuch as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. " Thou...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... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow,...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. CLXXXIII. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests, in all time,... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow...Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 6. Thou, glorious mirror, \vhere the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, (Calm... | |
| 1871 - 608 pages
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou ; — Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow ; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. * This is the correct reading. The older editions have — ' Thy waters wasted them while they were... | |
| George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 302 pages
...my propensity for quotations : — did you ever appreciate Byron's apostrophe to the Ocean ? — " Thou glorious mirror, where the 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 ; —... | |
| 1838 - 506 pages
...sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown." " Thou glorious mirror, where the 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;—boundless,... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1838 - 508 pages
...save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, " Thou glorious mirror, where the 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;—boundless,... | |
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