 | Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...to be Pi 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...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. Byrou. BYRON. TAKE one example, to our purpose quite. A man of rank, and of capacious soul, Who riches... | |
 | 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 Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. CLXXXV. My task is done 3 — my song hath ceased — my theme Has died into an echo ; it is fit The... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...hreast 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...was, as it were, a child of thee, And trusted to thy billow's far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. LESSON CXXX. The Jubilee of... | |
 | 1848 - 802 pages
...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 sea Made them...And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here." These Stanzas may be separated from the Poem — the feeling of readers innumerable so separates them... | |
 | Wolf Z. Hirst - 1991 - 218 pages
...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,...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 - 1994 - 884 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 — 't was a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee. And trusted to thy billows far and... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - 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... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - 1996 - 364 pages
...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...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. (Complete Poetical Works, vo1. II, pp. 184-6) Discussion There is much here that reminds us of Wordsworth:... | |
 | Warren Stevenson - 1996 - 166 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. CLXXXIV CLXXXI Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them...pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, 1655 And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. My task... | |
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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... 
