 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 448 pages
...CHAPTER VIII. " 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 wanton'd with thy breakers — they to mo Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear ; For I was,... | |
 | 1837 - 396 pages
...on its breast to be Borne, like its bubbles, onward: from a boy I wanton'd with its breakers—they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror—'twas a pleasing fear." The sailor's life was my " beau ideal" of happiness. As I grew older... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 364 pages
...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 fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near,... | |
 | Warren Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 166 pages
...autobiographical touch: 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 fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 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 a terror - 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, 1655 And trusted to thy billows far... | |
 | Cliff Gerwick - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 682 pages
...offshore construction. 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 wanton'd...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 to thy billows far and near,... | |
 | William Galvani - Reference - 1999 - 236 pages
...Pilgrimage', 1818 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 wanton'd...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... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - Art - 2001 - 360 pages
...vouthiul sports u as on thy hreasi to he Borne. like thy bnbbles. onward: from a bov ! wantoned with tby 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... | |
 | Elizabeth B. Sherman - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 244 pages
...Lyman M. Davis 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 wanton'd...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... | |
 | Fiona Capp - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 316 pages
...so heralded a new, aesthetic relationship with the sea. 'I wantoned with thy breakers,' wrote Byron. 'They to me / Were a delight; and if the freshening sea / Made them a terror, 'twas a pleasing fear.' Yet I knew that my love of the sea was not solely derived from the attraction... | |
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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 wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing... 
