 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
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Cartilage, what are they ! Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 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 realms to deserts... | |
 | John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...They melt into thy yeast of wavesv, 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*:... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - Climatology - 1845 - 240 pages
...localities of commercial opulence, Argos, and Tyre, and Venice, the traffic-built cities of antiquity. " 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 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 realms to deserts... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 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 dried up realms to deserts... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 374 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 dried up realms to deserts... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...understand; Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. The whisjwr'd thought of hearts allied, Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 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 — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they 1 Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,... | |
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