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Swim for Your Supper (poem)
by Cori Nicole Smith
Upon feeding my fish And drinking my wine A thought occurred For the hundredth time...
The Captain and the Mermaids (poem)
by WS Gilbert
I SING a legend of the sea, So hard-a-port upon your lee! A ship on starboard tack! She's bound upon a private cruise...
The Merman (poem)
by James Whitcomb Riley
Who would be A merman gay, Singing alone, Sitting alone...
Boy Dreams (poem)
by M Forrest
I was a Merman once. In the gloom of the amber-tinted seas...
The Mermaid (poem)
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who would be A mermaid fair, Singing alone, Combing her hair...
The Mermaid (poem)
by William Butler Yeats
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own...
The Scarecrow of Oz (excerpt)
by L. Frank Baum
Water and I are natural enemies, and it would have conquered me this time had not a bevy of pretty mermaids...
The Adventures of Peter Pan (excerpt)
by James M. Barrie
Pale rays of light tiptoed across the waters; and by and by there was to be heard a sound...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (excerpt)
by Jules Verne
"See anything out there, professor?" "No, Ned," I replied, "but you know I don't have your eyes." "Take a good look," Ned went on. "There, ahead to starboard, almost level with the beacon...
The Comedy of Errors (excerpt)
by William Shakespeare
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpt)
by William Shakespeare
My gentle Puck, come hither: thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back...
Queen Mab in the Village (poem)
by Vachel Lindsay
Once I loved a fairy, Queen Mab it was. Her voice Was like a little Fountain That bids the birds rejoice...