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... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1151818Full view - About this book
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...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what... | |
| English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Home, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yest of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils...Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, — what are they t Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...ribs make « Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into thy...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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
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| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...huge rihs make Their clay ereator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arhiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. • CLXXX|L Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage', what... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...huge ribs makes Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them whde they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into...Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. VOL. i. 18 CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage,... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war : These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, Theymelt free. And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stronger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of ihee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar A like the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all... | |
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