 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unkne lied, uno.offined, and unknown The armaments whieh thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding...thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pages
...petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. CLXXXI. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built...thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...dashest him again to earth: there let him lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rook-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble...thee, and arbiter of war : These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...dashest him again to earth : there let hm lay. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock -built seem. But -while this softer art their bliss supplies, It gives their follies also room to rise : Y"T as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils... | |
 | 1852 - 196 pages
...paths — thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the wild strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost...capitals ; The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN. 107 Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...agony, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth—there let him lay. The armaments which thunder-strike the...whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title tako Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, Ho sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without...thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 pages
...drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, —...thee, and arbiter of war : These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 234 pages
...drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, —...thee, and arbiter of war : These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pages
...drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, —...thee, and arbiter of war : These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils... | |
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Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee; Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? 
