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
| 1839 - 384 pages
...was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'it 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." BYHON IT was in the Summer... | |
| William Huffington - Delaware - 1839 - 500 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...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." NAVIGATING THE OCEAN BY STEAM... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...wantoned with thy breakers': they to me' Were a delight'; and if the freshening sea' Made them a terrour', 'twas 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'. My task is done' — my song... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...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, — 't was a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and... | |
| P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 pages
...255 Borne, like thy bubbles (1) , onward : from a boy (2) I wanton'd (5) with thy breakers (4) — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea..., as it were, a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane (8) , as I do here. BYRON. CAN A MONARCH BE TRULY... | |
| Robert Baird - Finland - 1842 - 386 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...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 !" Such a life must form a race... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...to be Rome, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantim'd with thy breakers — they to me NVere billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. CLXXXV. My task is done (2)... | |
| 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... | |
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