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" The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, — The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war, —... "
The works of lord Byron, with notes by T. Moore [and others]. - Page 60
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842
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Class Book of Poetry: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English ...

John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose...title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's...
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The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the ...

Worthy Putnam - 1858 - 420 pages
...The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose...title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ! These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 364 pages
...some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. CLXXX. Tho urmaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities,...Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thec, and arbiter of war — These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast...
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The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises ...

Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, — The oak leviathans,...take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war, — These are thy toys ; and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's...
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School-room Poetry

S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals ; The oak leviathans whose...take Of Lord of thee, and arbiter of war — These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with illustr. by K. Halswelle

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose...title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...The armaments which thunderstrike the wall' Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose...title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike th' Armada's...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals — The oak leviathans,...title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's...
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A history of English literature, in a series of biographical sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...armaments, which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals ; The oak leviathans, whose...title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war : These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's...
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Readings from the best authors, ed. by A.H. Bryce, Issue 10

Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...armaments which thunder-strike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose...take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war— These are thy toys; and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's...
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