 Thy shores are empires, 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 shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms...  The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron - Page 187by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824Full view - About this book
 | 1866 - 728 pages
...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. " Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee, — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,...wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has driod up realms to deserts... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...wasted them 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:... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...They melt into thy yest of waves', which mar', Alike', the Armada's pride', or spoils of Trafalgar. 'E Thy shores are empires', changed in all save thee'...wasted them 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':... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pages
...of immutability be applicable to any thing in this world, it is to the ocean, and not to the land ! Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what arc they? Thy waters washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey.... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...wasted them 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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1835 - 328 pages
...yest of waves, which mar Alike the armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy stores are empire's, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome,...wasted them 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... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 pages
...they ? Has dried up realms to deserts :—not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play— Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Time writes no wrinkles on thine... | |
 | Harp - 1836 - 380 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee—...wasted them 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...wasted them 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee—...wasted them 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... | |
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