 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. Children dear,...  Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature - Pagina 136geredigeerd door - 1910Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1849 - 778 pagina’s
...to tell the story, and give a fair propriate to^the subject : — notion of the whole, which, though Come, dear children, let us away ; Down and away below....brothers, call from the bay ; Now the great winds shorewai ds blow ; Now the salt tides seawards flow ; Now the wild white horses play, Champ, and chafe,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pagina’s
...Baltic Sea 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....my brothers call from the bay ; Now the great winds shore wards blow ; Now the salt tides seawards flow ; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pagina’s
...Come, come, and sleep, dear mother — Oh, weep no more to-night ! LE LANDON. LVI THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. Come, dear children, let us away : Down and away below....spray. Children dear, let us away. This way, this way. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. 145 Call her once before you go. Call once yet, In a voice that she will know... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1863 - 608 pagina’s
..."Dimple on old Ocean's cheek," is only an artistic copy of ^Eschylus's ytAoo>ia TTOVrOV. Arnold's — " Now the wild white horses play ; Champ and chafe, and toss in the spray ;" the Poet Laureate's — " Voice of the long sea-wave as it swells, Now and then, in the dim grey... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1863 - 602 pagina’s
..."Dimple on old Ocean's cheek," is only an artistic copy of ^Eschylus's ytW1*a iroyrov. Arnold's — " Now the wild white horses play ; Champ and chafe, and toss in the spray ;" the Poet Laureate's — or, " Voice of the long sea-wave as it swells, Now and then, in the dim... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 562 pagina’s
...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....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... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 236 pagina’s
...kind of rhyme and five in another.] MISCEUAHEOCS. Ho THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. (Forsaken by his Queen.) COME, dear children, let us away ; Down and away below....the great winds shorewards blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow ; Now the wild white horses play, Chip and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear,... | |
 | Belgravia - 1870 - 558 pagina’s
...Brighton or Scarborough seascape, how I admire your inevitable disappointment ! Instead of seeing ' the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray,' while a merry wind that has travelled over leagues of foam plays tricks with your apparel, you are... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pagina’s
...light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? Blanco White. PART THE FIFTH. CCLVIII THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below....shorewards blow; Now the salt tides seawards flow; 5 Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away.... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 534 pagina’s
...Forsaken Merman.' Its rhythm suggests the wild music of the Baltic, fretted by the restless wind. ' Come, dear children, let us away ; Down and away below....my brothers call from the bay ; Now the great winds shorowards blow ; . Now the salt tides seawards flow ; Now the wild white horses play, Champ, and chafe,... | |
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