THE FORSAKEN MERMAN COME, dear children, let us away ; Down and away below ! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow ; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.... Sea Song and River Rhyme from Chaucer to Tennyson - Page 91by Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1887 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
| Martha Le Baron Goddard - Sea poetry - 1874 - 248 pages
...in prayer, That, to quiet their troubled spirits, He had sent this Ship of Air. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. , dear children, let us away...my brothers call from the bay ; Now the great winds shorewards blow ; Now the salt tides seawards flow ; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chaff... | |
| 1874 - 672 pages
...pointed to half-past eleven before she reached the shore ; and as she paused for a moment to watch ' The wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the bay,' she found the sea-air so pleasant, that she began to wonder whether it was not too near the Southerdens'... | |
| Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...own woe ; and with it, ever and anon, mingles the sob of waters on the rocks and in the caves. COME, dear children, let us away; Down and away below !...Now the salt tides seaward flow ; Now the wild white horsest play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away ! This way, this way... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...O, how the commonwealth doth need Such justices as you ! RICHARD CORBETT. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. COME, dear children, let us away; Down and away below. Now...my brothers call from the bay ; Now the great winds shorewards blow ; Now the salt tides seaward flow ; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 292 pages
...headlands, The Baltic Sea along, Sits Neckan with his harp of gold, And sings this plaintive song. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. , dear children, let us away;...spray. Children dear, let us away ! This way, this way ! Call her once before you go — Call once yet I In a voice that she will know : ' Margaret ! Margaret... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 290 pages
...along, Sits Neckan with his harp of gold, And sings this plaintive song. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. /"""(DME, dear children, let us away; Down and away below !...spray. Children dear, let us away ! This way, this way ! Call her once before you go — Call once yet ! In a voice that she will know : ' Margaret ! Margaret... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 290 pages
...along, Sits Neckan with his harp of gold, And sings this plaintive song. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. /"'OME, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now...spray. Children dear, let us away! This way, this way! Call her once before you go— Call once yet! In a voice that she will know: ' Margaret! Margaret!'... | |
| Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 pages
...sonnets of an emotional kind. Among his works may be mentioned Empedodes on Etna and The Merope. COME, dear children, let us away ; Down and away below....brothers call from the bay ; * Now the great winds shorewards blow ; Now the salt tides * seawards flow j 5 Now the wild white horses play, Champ * and... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...great winds shorewaids blow ; Now the salt titles seaward flow ; Now the wild white horses play, Chauip and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away. This way, this way. Call her once before you go. Call once yet, In a voice that she will know : " Margaret ! Margaret !... | |
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1878 - 396 pages
...along, Sits Neckan with his harp of gold, And sings this plaintive song. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. COME, dear children, let us away; Down and away below !...winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow; M Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away... | |
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