 | 1837 - 396 pages
..." Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean roll! ******** Unchangeable save to ^hy wild waves play— Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now."—Childe Harold. All sail was now crowded upon the ship, as the Captain was anxious to double... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1990 - 594 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. CHAPTER XXVI. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced by earthquakes at great depths below the... | |
 | Gayle L. Ormiston - 1990 - 236 pages
...Universe, and feel / What I can ne'er express" (canto 4, stanza 177), describes nature as the . . . 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,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1990 - 594 pages
...decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so Hum, Unchangeable, gave to thy wild waves' play : Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow ; Such as creation's dawn beheld, them rollest now. CHILDE HAROLD, Canto iv. CHAPTER XXVI. Magnitude of the subterranean changes produced... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...vain; Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore; 3 Time writes no wrinkles Still falls the RainDark as the world of man, black as our lo^s Blind 4 Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity, — the throne Of the Invisible!... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow: Sncli as creation's dawn beheld, thon rollest now. CLxxxm. ons. Sieg. But she loves yon. Ulr. And I love her, and therefore would think twice. Sieg. convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or roll ! Dark-heaving— boundless, endless, and sublime, The image... | |
 | Carl Mitcham - 1994 - 410 pages
..."to mingle with the Universe, and feel / What I can ne'er express" (4.177), describes nature as the 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... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - 1995 - 276 pages
...unknown" (4.179), and furthermore Byron seems to admit that the ocean alone is unfurrowed by mortality: "Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — /Such as Creation's dawn beheld, Thou rollest now" (4.182). But omnipotence of thought really has no limits. Suddenly the ocean resembles a Byronic hero:... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...decay 1635 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 1640 Glasses itself in tempests; in all time,... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - 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 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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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... 
