 | American poetry - 1852 - 196 pages
...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 all despise, Spurning...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 walls... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 1170 pages
...Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay." The blot which disfigures the last line of... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...fields Are not a spoil for him—thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning...skies, And send'st him. shivering in thy playful spray Howling in agony, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thon dost all despise, Spnming him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful And bowling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 364 pages
...fields Are not a spoil for him, - thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields. For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: - there let him lay. 181 The armaments which thunderstrike the walls... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...Are not a spoil for him, - thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields 1615 For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, CLXXX The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And... | |
 | Warren Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 166 pages
...Byron portrays Ocean as implicitly androgynous, as well as refreshingly playful: "Spurning him [man] from thy bosom to the skies, / And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray" (1616-17). (Compare the reference two stanzas further on to "thy wild waves' play.") I say "implicitly... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 312 pages
...fields Are not a spoil for him, - thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning...haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: - there let him lay. (4: 180) The contempt for the petty hope humanity... | |
 | H. S. Toshack - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 135 pages
...fields 20 Are not a spoil for him - thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning...skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray 25 And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - Art - 2001 - 360 pages
...shake him from thee: the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise. Spuming him from thy bosom to the skies. And send'st him. shivering in thy playful spmy And howling. to his Gods. where haply lies His peuy hope in some near port or bay. And dashest... | |
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His steps are not upon thy paths— thy fields Are not a spoil for him— thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering... 
