 They slept on the abyss without a surge The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress had expired before; The winds were...  Agriculture of Pennsylvania - Page 78by Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - 1888Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 pages
...recollected the following strange lines, arid almost fancied that such might be our own dismal fate:— " The rivers, lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropped, They... | |
 | 1817 - 608 pages
...powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, mnnless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths: Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1815 - 324 pages
...powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd They... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1816 - 88 pages
...powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal ; as they dropp'd They... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...Seasonless, herWess, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. SfoS* The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths ; Ships siiilorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They... | |
 | 1816 - 696 pages
...powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herblexs, treeless, numkss, lifeless—*• A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirred witliiu their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal;... | |
 | 1816 - 572 pages
...' The waves were dead ; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perished ; darkness had no need Of aid from them — She was the universe.' Now for Mr. Fuseli's Picture : '... | |
 | 1816 - 574 pages
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 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1818 - 216 pages
...powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd The waves... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 210 pages
...powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood...still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They... | |
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