 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 372 pages
...they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear j For I was, as it were, a child of thee, And trusted...thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy niane — as 1 do here. 6. My task is done — my song hath ceased — my theme Hath died into an echo... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...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 and near, And laid my band upon thy wave — as I do here. BYRON. THE TREASURES OF THE DEEP. WHAT hid'st thou in thy treasure-caves... | |
 | Wolf Z. Hirst - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 218 pages
...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...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. (4. 184) The buried allusion to Genesis 1:2 -"And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters"... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...— they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 't was a pleasing he hearts which they bear, and the talet which they tell. П. Begirt with many a gallant CLXXXV. My task is done, my song bath ceased, my theme Has died into an echo ; it is fit The spell... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - Poetry - 1995 - 276 pages
...the parentage of Ocean and then denies even that priority by taming the great devourer to his will: For I was as it were a Child of thee, And trusted...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. (4.184) The ocean is Byron's last semblable, not a complementary double or other, for those will always... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...freshening sea Made them a terror - 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, 1655 And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid...fit The spell should break of this protracted dream. 1660 The torch shall be extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp - and what is writ, is writ, Would... | |
 | Warren Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 166 pages
...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...thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane—as I do here. (1648-56) The last of these lines echoes Genesis (1:2)—"And the Spirit of God... | |
 | Cliff Gerwick - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 682 pages
...breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — twos a pleasing fear For I was as it were, a child of thee And trusted...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — As I do here. Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" Ecological and Societal Impacts of Marine Construction 3.1... | |
 | Mark Humphrey - Music - 2000 - 276 pages
...thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy l wantoned with thy breakers,... And l trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane, — as l do here. "Jimmy captured him pretty well," Chris Robinson recalls of Phil Clark. "'I passed out and... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - Art - 2001 - 360 pages
...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 and near. And laid m\ hand upon tby mane — as I do here l184l. Here. more than just Harold(Byron as a child or adolescent... | |
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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... 
