Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy... La Belle Assemblée1818Full view - About this book
| James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 192 pages
...the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed — nor doth remain A shadow of man's...save his own ; When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...murks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uucoffin'd, and unknown.... | |
| 1826 - 434 pages
...marks the earth with ruin—his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...ruin — his control Stops with the shore;— upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed,nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks int. i thy depths with bubbling groan. Without agrave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd.and unknown.... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed,nor nbreitstein, with her shatter'd wall Black with the miner's blast,upon her height Yet rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan. Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...ocean—roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin—his control A shadow of man's ravage, save his own: When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain, The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain He... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...with ruin—his control Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy dead, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan. Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.... | |
| John Cole - 1827 - 166 pages
...marks the earth with ruin—his controul Stops with the shore; along the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a momont, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave,unkneird,uncoffin'd,... | |
| 1828 - 814 pages
...the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.... | |
| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncolfm'd. and unknown.... | |
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