And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing... The works of lord Byronby George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Snippet view - About this book
| Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...break.ers : | they to me, , Were a delight ; | and, if the fresh'ning sea , Made them a terror — | 't was a pleasing fear, | For I was , as it were , a child' of thee, | And trusted to thy billows, far, and near, | And laid my hand upon thy mane' — | as I do here,. | APOSTROPHE TO THE... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...Horace, and Virgil, and Homer, that was dinaed i"t" bis repulsive spirit 1 To the shock of this change Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them...was as it were a child of thee. And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. CLXXXV. My task is done' —... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers—they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror—'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers, — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening...was, as it were, a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. 6. My task is done — my song... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles onward: from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they, to me, Were a delight; and if the freshening...was, as it were, a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. LOUD BYBON. "Silence, ye troubled... | |
| 1843 - 778 pages
...exclamation — " Yes, by George, I've seen it in all these situations." And at these concluding lines — " For I was, as it were, a child of thee, " And trusted to thy billows far and near, "And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here." "I have done it a hundred... | |
| John Downes Owens - Education - 1844 - 64 pages
...onward,— from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers, — they to me Were a delight ; and if the fresh'ning sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear,...was, as it were, a child of thee And trusted to thy billows, far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane, as I do here," — and in hopes that the ocean... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — and violets grow. Not a pine in my grove is there...with tendrils of woodbine is bound ; Not a beech' ae it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles onward: from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they, to me, Were a delight; and if the freshening...was, as it were, a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. LORD BYBON. "Silence, ye troubled... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...was on thy breast to be Borne like the bubbles, onward ; from a boy, I wantoned with thy breakers— they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea...was, as it were, a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. In the dreams of delight, which... | |
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