 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXIL n her hundred isles! II. She looks a sea Cybcle, fresh from ocean, (2) Rising with her tiara of pro '.VV Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger,... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1840 - 396 pages
...picture of the fortunes of the great cities and kingdoms that once stood on and occupied her shores. " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee, Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, where are they ?" The Mediterranean, Mare Intemum of the ancients, extends about two thousand three... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 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:—not... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...the headland of Пгсамип and the Cape of Tcrracinj See 60 CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. CLXXXH. 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... | |
 | 1842 - 480 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... | |
 | 1842 - 416 pages
...perseveres : — " The armaments, which thunderstrike the walls " &c. to the end of the stanza. Again, " Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee !...wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since." What connection between these two facts ? " Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow, Such... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 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 desarts:... | |
 | Quaver - 1844 - 552 pages
...flake, They melt into the 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 reahus to deserts... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Thy shores are empires, changed in all Rave thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 success. We subjoin an amusing and instructive fable by this since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserte... | |
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