 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...Horace, and Virgil, and Homer, that was dinned into hia repulsive spirit I To the shock of this change e Gordon Byron billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. CLXXXV. My task is done 3 —... | |
 | England - 1848 - 802 pages
...was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'dwith 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." These Stanzas may be separated... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1848 - 278 pages
...sports was on 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...was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane." But, before his departure, he gave some wholesome... | |
 | England - 1848 - 806 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...them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was ae it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 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 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... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Sea stories - 1849 - 448 pages
...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 5 For I was, as it were, a child of thee, ^ And laid my hand upon thy... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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. XXVI Till! FIELD OF WATERLOO.... | |
 | 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.... | |
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