| 1849 - 778 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1853 - 298 pages
...Baltic Sea along, Sits Neckan with his harp of gold, And sings this plaintive song. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. COME, dear children, let us away...horses play, Champ 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... | |
| 1853 - 566 pages
...attain the object he desires. In the earlier volume, one of the most generally admired pieces was " The Forsaken Merman." Come, dear children, let us away Down, and away below, says the Merman, standing upon the sea-shore, whither he and his children came up to call baek the... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...headlands, The Baltic Sea along, Sits Neckan with his harp of gold, And sings this plaintive song. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. COME, dear children, let us away;...horses play, Champ 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... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...headlands, The Baltic Sea along, Sits Neckan with his harp of gold, And sings this plaintive song. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. COME, dear children, let us away...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... | |
| Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...shone on Ettrick fair, A corpse, amid the alders rank, The Palmer welter'd there. Sir W. Scott XXXIV THE FORSAKEN MERMAN Come dear children, let us away...horses play, Champ 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... | |
| Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...from my sight — Come, come, and sleep, dear mother — Oh, weep no more to-night ! LE LANDON. LVI THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. Come, dear children, let us away...horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away. This way, this way. THE FORSAKEN MERMAN. 145 Call her once before you go.... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...made for the brave and free, They shall never sound in slavery ! " THE FORSAKEN MERMAN.— Arnold. COME, dear children, let us away ; Down and away below....horses play, Champ 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... | |
| Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1863 - 390 pages
...Palmer welter'd there. Sir W. Scott xxxiv THE FORSAKEN MERMAN /~*OME, dear children, let us away ; V_^ Down and away below. Now my brothers call from the...horses play, Champ 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, Children's... | |
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