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" 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, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I... "
An Essay on Elocution, Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners - Page 222
by Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 357 pages
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

502 pages
...the rest, did feelingly aver. And now for awhile — " Our task is done : our song hath ceased ; our theme Has died into an echo. It is fit The spell should break of this protracted dream. And what is writ is writ ; would it were worthier !" And BO, wishing you, kind reader, and the gallant...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 30

1818 - 638 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...break of this protracted dream. The torch shall be extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp — and what is writ, is writ,— Would it were worthier...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 64

1848 - 788 pages
...wanton'dwith 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...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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 3

1818 - 762 pages
...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...billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — aa I do here. 185. My task is done — my song hath ceased— my theme Has died into nn echo ;...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 10; Volume 28

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 648 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...break of this protracted dream. The torch shall be extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp — and what is writ, is writ, — Would it were worthier...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3

1818 - 806 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...near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here. 185. My task is done— my song hath ceased— my theme Has died into an echo ; it is fit The spell...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Volume 2

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pages
...distant readers whom it may be some time before Lord Byron's volume reaches. My task is done — ray song hath ceased— my theme Has died into an echo...should break of this protracted dream. The torch shall he extinguished which hath lit My midnight lamp — and what is writ is writ, — Would it were worthier...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 1

1821 - 438 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. And trusted to thy billows far ind near, '• • •! laid in v band upon thy nunc— :, > I do here. LE PATTISSIER. Monsieur grown...
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Peak scenery, or, Excursions in Derbyshire:: made chiefly for the purpose of ...

Ebenezer Rhodes - 1899 - 318 pages
...pains and pleasures that have attended it are at an end. " My task is done ; my song hath ceas'd ; my theme Has died into an echo ; — it is fit The spell should break of this protracted drearn : The torch shall he extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp — and what is writ is writ...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 7-8

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of tbee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here. CLXXXV. My taskis done— my song hath ceased— my theme Has died into an echo ; it is fit The spell...
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