"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…"

"Slow sail'd the weary mariners and saw, Betwixt the green brink and the running foam, Sweet faces, rounded arms, and …"

"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…"