"To aid your toils, to scatter death, Swift, as the sheeted lightning's force, When the keen north-wind's freezing bre…"

"O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears."

"Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breat…"

"Who would be A mermaid fair, Singing alone, Combing her hair Under the sea, In a golden curl With a comb of pearl, On…"

"A mermaid found a swimming lad Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgo…"

"I must be a mermaid... I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living."

"I think every little girl's dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I would go to the beac…"

"Today's mermaids are fun-loving and friendly. The frightening, destroyer sirens of the past have been ousted in favor…"

"The smiling infant in his hand shall take The crested basilisk, and speckled snake; Pleased, the green lustre of the …"

"See how she rears her head, And rolls about her dreadful eyes, To drive all virtue out, or look it dead! 'Twas sure t…"