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The Mermaid
 
by Heinz Insu Fenkl
 
 
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
 
I do not think that they will sing to me.
 
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
 
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
 
— T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of  J. Alfred Prufrock"
 
. . . an Eve figure overlaid with the cult of the Virgin, a sealed vessel enclosing either sexual temptation or sexual virtue, or some paradoxical and potent mixture of the two.
— Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
"A Mermaid" by John William Waterhouse, 1900
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ICHTHYS: Christian fish symbol
Ariel © Walt Disney
The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen, by Edvard Eriksen
Oannes as merman, from palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad
bench-end carving at Crowcombe church, Somerset, 1500s
Sea maid from Shakespeare's <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>, Arthur Rackham, 1908
Mermaid suckling a lion, Norwich Cathedral
"The Lady from the Sea" by Edvard Munch, 1896
Roof boss in Sherborne Abbey Church
Detail from engraving, "Entry of the Sirens" from <i>Le Balet Comique de la Reyne</i> by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx, 1581
Mermaid alongside Noah's Ark, Nuremberg Bible (Biblia Sacra Germanica) 1483
"The Depths of the Sea" by Edward Burne-Jones, 1887