 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 Byron - Page 186by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843Full view - About this book
 | William Russell - 1854 - 392 pages
...3. Thou glorious mirror ! where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests. 4. And I have lov'd thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports, was on...Borne, like thy bubbles, onward ; — from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers, — they to me Were a delight. 6. And this is in the night ! Most glorious... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 360 pages
...conviction that on ourselves depends the happiness or interests of the person beloved. CHAPTEE VIII. " And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful...sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onwards ; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - 1854 - 552 pages
...had been nursed, as it were ; and he might have exclaimed with truth, in the words of Byron : — — "I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be F Borne, like bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 188 pages
...The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless, alone. And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful...be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward ; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers— they to me Were a delight ; and if a freshening sea Made them a terror... | |
 | Joseph Middleton (barrister.) - 1855 - 298 pages
...monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful...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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1855 - 444 pages
...each zone 1 Obeys1 thee ; Ithou goest forth,ldread',l fath'omless, lalone,.| "•And I Aave lov'd1 thee, o'cean ! | and my joy | Of youthful sports,...to be | Borne, like thy bubbles, on'ward : | from a boy11 1 I wanton'd with thy break.ers : | they to me, | Were a delight; | and, if the fresh'ning sea... | |
 | The London Quarterly Review VOL.IV April and July,1855 - 1855 - 590 pages
...each would apply the poet's words : — " And I have loved thee, Occan ! and my joy Of youthful eports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers." — We feel assured that the professional duties to which the writers' lives have been devoted were... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...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, — 't was a pleasing fear ; For I was, as it were, a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 514 pages
...monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful...breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the fresh'iung sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child 01 thee,... | |
 | Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd - 1856 - 412 pages
...Byron's poetry is an address to the Ocean, the last stanza of which contains the image here quoted — " And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful...like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with tliy breakers — they to ine Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror, 'twas... | |
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