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" Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wash'd them power while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up... "
Childe Harold: Canto the Fourth, The Prisoner of Chillon and Mazepa - Page 63
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1909 - 136 pages
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The works of lord Byron including the suppressed poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...Assyria, (j recce, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy walers wasted them while they were free, Aud many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save lo thy wild waves' play — Time...
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Moral and Sacred Poetry

Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, chang'd in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave,...
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The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral ..., Volume 12

1830 - 614 pages
...changed in all save thee— Assyria, Greece, Home, Carthage,— what are they * Thy waters wasted them while they were free. And many a tyrant since ; their...obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to <!<--<-rt* : not so tbou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' playTime writes...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave,...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 14

802 pages
...the phrase that were born of the occasion, when thus I looked and thought upon thee, Eternal Sea ! Thy shores are empires, changed in all, save thee...Greece, Rome, Carthage — what are they ? Thy waters washed them while they yet were free, And many a tyrant since their shores obey—- The stranger, slave,...
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt. (Harrow ed.).

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they I Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger,...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters washed them power while they were free, And many a tyrant...shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou; — Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play —...
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The National Orator;: Consisting of Selections, Adapted for Rhetorical ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...He sinks into thy depths, with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they'? Thy waters wasted them, while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave,...
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Including His Suppressed Poems ..., Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave,...
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage, The giaour, The siege of Corinth [and other poems].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. CLXXXII. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee —...Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave,...
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