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DeviantART loves mermaids! Over the years many mermaid and mermaid inspire piece of art have been featured as DDs. Check out this collection. If you know of a mermaid art piece that has a DD and is not in our group please link it so we can request it!!!! This featured article is brought to you by :icondeviantartmermaids:



a mermaid after school by ~asahinoboru

Blow on, ye death fraught whirlwinds! blow,
Around the rocks, and rifted caves;
Ye demons of the gulf below!
I hear you, in the troubled waves.
High on this cliff, which darkness shrouds
In night's impenetrable clouds,
My solitary watch I keep,
And listen, while the turbid deep
Groans to the raging tempests, as they roll
Their desolating force, to thunder at the pole
."




Lost Loves at Sea by =mattwatier

"Eternal world of waters, hail!
Within thy caves my Lover lies;
And day and night alike shall fail
Ere slumber lock my streaming eyes.
Along this wild untrodden coast,
Heap'd by the gelid' hand of frost;
Thro' this unbounded waste of seas,
Where never sigh'd the vernal breeze;
Mine was the choice, in this terrific form,
To brave the icy surge, to shiver in the storm
."



Rendezvous by ~JaspersAutumn

"Yes! I am chang'd - My heart, my soul,
Retain no more their former glow.
Hence, ere the black'ning tempests roll,
I watch the bark, in murmurs low,
(While darker low'rs the thick'ning' gloom)
To lure the sailor to his doom;
Soft from some pile of frozen snow
I pour the syren-song of woe;
Like the sad mariner's expiring cry,
As, faint and worn with toil, he lays him down to die
."




The Mermaids Cave Revisited by *DavidAyala

"Then, while the dark and angry deep
Hangs his huge billows high in air ;
And the wild wind with awful sweep,
Howls in each fitful swell - beware!
Firm on the rent and crashing mast,
I lend new fury to the blast;
I mark each hardy cheek grow pale,
And the proud sons of courage fail;
Till the torn vessel drinks the surging waves,
Yawns the disparted main, and opes its shelving graves
."



Mermaids atoll - The lost ship by ~DaniNaimare

"When Vengeance bears along the wave
The spell, which heav'n and earth appals;
Alone, by night, in darksome cave,
On me the gifted wizard calls.
Above the ocean's boiling flood
Thro' vapour glares the moon in blood:
Low sounds along the waters die,
And shrieks of anguish fill the' sky;
Convulsive powers the solid rocks divide,
While, o'er the heaving surge, the embodied spirits glide.
"




Every drop in the ocean counts by =karby-licious

"Thrice welcome to my weary sight,
Avenging ministers of Wrath!
Ye heard, amid the realms of night,
The spell that wakes the sleep of death.
Where Hecla's flames the snows dissolve,
Or storms, the polar skies involve;
Where, o'er the tempest-beaten wreck,
The raging winds and billows break;
On the sad earth, and in the stormy sea,
All, all shall shudd'ring own your potent agency
."




Koi by *Cyzra

"To aid your toils, to scatter death,
Swift, as the sheeted lightning's force,
When the keen north-wind's freezing breath
Spreads desolation in its course,
My soul within this icy sea,
Fulfils her fearful destiny.
Thro' Time's long ages I shall wait
To lead the victims to their fate;
With callous heart, to hidden rocks decoy,
And lure, in seraph-strains, unpitying, to destroy
.”
Anne Bannerman, Poems by Anne Bannerman




Kind act by *Waldemar-Kazak

Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed
The ebb-tide leaves dry.
We will gaze, from the sand-hills,
At the white, sleeping town;
At the church on the hill-side—
And then come back down.
Singing: "There dwells a loved one,
But cruel is she!
She left lonely for ever
The kings of the sea.


(from poem 'The Forsaken Merman')”
Matthew Arnold, The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold




Relay by ~muse33

"Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones."

-Jeffrey McDaniel



Steampunk Little Mermaid by *PachecoClaire

"I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I'm not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens' song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason!"
C. JoyBell C.





Sirenetta by *Nataly1st
"Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot."
Margot Datz (A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids)




Aqua by `PorcelainPoet

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






Tribute to Herman Melville by *DustinPanzino

A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown
.” - William Butler Yeats






Rise Up by *NicoleHansche

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 throne?
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb I would sing and say,
"Who is it loves me? who loves not me?"

- Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Mermaid



Drowning Dreams by *Junedays

"Slow sail'd the weary mariners and saw,
Betwixt the green brink and the running foam,
Sweet faces, rounded arms, and bosoms prest
To little harps of gold; and while they mused
Whispering to each other half in fear,
Shrill music reach'd them on the middle sea
."
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Sea Fairies





The Transformation by *elotta



UndaH2O by ~Qi-Li





jellyfish by ~BrunofPaiva











Koi Mermaid by ~Bamfette






Octopus Ink by ~RachelCurtis







Mermaid by ~Tn3h











La jeune sirene et la statue by ~semsei









Jedi Ariel by *pushfighter

Sharkmermaid by *AriaThordiaSquid by ~TrinusBlu new icon by =Reika-neko-chan



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a feature of mermaids in daily deviations for :icondeviantartmermaids:
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~spotted-cat Feb 12, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
this is Amazing. Thanks Raina.
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:icondesignbykatt:
thanks for the feature!
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^DistortedSmile Feb 10, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
Pretty :aww:
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:iconbacksackandjack:
A very good feature, bags of diversity in the styles, colours and finishes. If you weren't so busy I'd definitely recommend you have a shot at GMing.
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:iconraine-angel:
hehe thanks! :) I'd only GM if I could be the GM of mermaids, :eyes: LOL
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:iconbacksackandjack:
That could work. :paranoid:
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:iconfares002:
nice feature.
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=tonepainter Feb 9, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Wow, great feature!
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