 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 310 pages
...which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel, What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou...Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain The wreck* are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet can not all conceal CLXXIX. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll Ten thousand...thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Slops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...reflect The melancholy face of human life ! YOUNG'S Night TTuntghts. 2. Roll on, thou dark and deep blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over...shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deeds, nor dolh remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1847 - 486 pages
...thefourth canto of Childe Harold, but without acknowledging whence the ideas were borrowed : — " Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean — roll ! Ten thousand...the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the snore ; — upon the wat'ry plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage.... | |
 | 1848 - 798 pages
...which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. " Roll on,...his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinksinto thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, nnknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. " His... | |
 | 1848 - 802 pages
...blue Ocean! — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with min — his control Stops with the shore :— upon the watery...of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like'a drop of vain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd,... | |
 | 1848 - 806 pages
...promised and what is done. Weigh for a moment these lines — " Upon the watery plain The wreck» are »11 thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage...drop of rain, He sinks Into thy depths with bubbling groan,1 &c., and tell us what they seem to describe. You will find yourself in a pretty puzzle. A ship... | |
 | George Croly - 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*... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1907 - 708 pages
...here." (Italics mine.) Compare the same thought in Madame de Staël, and also in Byron's lines : — Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks...upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed. His steps are not upon thy paths,— thy fields Are not a spoil for him. Unchangeable, save to thy... | |
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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... 
