 The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war, — These...  English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) - Page 442by John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 792 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...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... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth:— there let him lay. enj Z, See Scott's The Lay of the Latt Minttrel. 6 14-16 (p. 444). •Over half of the Spanish fleet which... | |
 | R. E. Pattison Kline - 1916 - 246 pages
...He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Borne, Carthage,—what are theyt... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. r ; 4.-. The rest the winds dispersed in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?... | |
 | Recitations - 1908 - 622 pages
...sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan — Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into the yeast of waves, which mar the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1919 - 572 pages
...nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make 1625 Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of...mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. ISM Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
 | Albert Augustus Lathbury - Future life - 1920 - 376 pages
...fabulous regions. Even in Byron's day the Ocean was a king of terrors. "The armaments which thunder strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake...waves which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar."4 The era of steam and electricity has robbed the ocean of its former primacy in the domain... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 202 pages
...lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashst him again to earth: — there let him lay. The armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built...thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into the yest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires,... | |
 | Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - American poetry - 1922 - 560 pages
...lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay. The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay...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?... | |
 | Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - American poetry - 1923 - 566 pages
...lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...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?... | |
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