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
| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 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. JiTRoir. "Silence, ye troubled... | |
| United States - 1850 - 608 pages
...which is meant for fine poetry, and stolen from Byron at that. Byron says, speaking of the ocean : " For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows, far nnd near, And laid my hand upon thy mune — as I do here." Mr. Macaulay is determined... | |
| William Parker Snow - Arctic regions - 1851 - 506 pages
...was on thy breast to be Bome, 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." CHILDB HAROLD, canto iv. ver.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 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. NIGHT AT CORINTH.1 'Tis midnight:... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1851 - 352 pages
...was 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 — 't was a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and... | |
| Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1851 - 568 pages
...thy breast to be Borne, like 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 fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far... | |
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