My cold mad feary father

"But thou art but my fiery father; my sweet mother, I know not." (Melville, Moby Dick)

("sweet mother", cf. Swinburne in Ulysses)

William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas, Night the Fourth (Tharmas, representing Chaos and Flood, is speaking:) "...would I had never risen/ From deaths cold sleep beneath the bottom of the ragin Ocean/ And cannot those who once have lovd. ever forget their Love? (...) When dark despair comes over can I not/ Flow down into the sea & slumber in oblivion."

"Dreamer of furious oceans cold sleeper of weeds & shells"

Compare the first chapter of Ulysses, where the sea, according to Mulligan, is "our mighty mother."