John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5675 George Gordon Noel Byron
| NUMBER: | 5675 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | 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 wantoned with thy breakers, . . . . . And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane,—as I do here. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 184. |
| Note 1. He laid his hand upon “the ocean’s mane,” And played familiar with his hoary locks. Robert Pollok: The Course of Time, book iv. line 389. [back] |