 Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage,...  Tom Cringle's Log - Page 341by Michael Scott - 1834 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1849 - 540 pages
...boundless main, so peculiarly applicable to this region of the globe ! — Roll on, thou dark and deep blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over...into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and alone. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee. Assyria, Greece,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...as it gasps away T je last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone--and all is gray. THE OCEAN. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand...ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of niin, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknew*... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Creation - 1849 - 146 pages
...series of necessary operations, by which Dr. Paris. D2 Man marks the earth with ruin — his contronl Stops with the shore : — upon the watery plain The...like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with buhbling groan, Without a grave, unknelTd, uncoffin'd, and unknown ! Thy shores are empires, changed... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with thy shore; — upon the watery plain 2c The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow...like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubhling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown ! His steps are not upon thy paths... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Sea stories - 1849 - 448 pages
...with ruin—bis control Stops with the shore;—upon the watery plain The wrecks are all tby deeds, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his...When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into jhji: depths with bubbling groan, « BlBOJT. THAT evening the sun set in clouds, though the eastern... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, Stops with the shore: upon the watery plain When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. 3. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities,... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...watery plain The wrecks are ail thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, \Vhen for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy deplhs with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffm'd, and unknown. Mis steps are not upon... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 344 pages
...before, To mingle with the universe and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on , thou deep and dark blue Ocean , roll ! Ten thousand...save his own, When for a moment like a drop of rain lie sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan Without a grave, unknelled , \mcoffined and unknown.... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wroeks are all thy deed, nor dotli remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, lIe sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unkne lied, uno.offined, and unknown... | |
 | Elocution - 1851 - 312 pages
...liberty, or give me death! VI.— THE OCEAN.—Byron. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean—roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks...into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown! The armaments, which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities,... | |
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