 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...  Fly - Page 601839Full view - About this book
 | Matt Warshaw - Surfing - 2004 - 390 pages
...was one LORD BYRON Excerpt from "Childe Harold" 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 wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror... | |
 | Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 284 pages
...can be glimpsed (IV, 183), and moving off towards that 'throne': And I have loved thee, Ocean! [...] For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. (IV, 184) 'The poem may end', as Curran suggests, 'but the pilgrimage casts itself upon the ocean where... | |
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