| 1839 - 272 páginas
...reared, the elfish light Fell off iu hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship, I watched their gay attire ; Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They...swam, and every track Was a flash of golden fire. It is, in reality, difficult for the spectator to believe that all these varied and brilliant appearances,... | |
| Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 páginas
...Ancient Mariner" first relents and softens at the spectacle of ocean's happy sportive tribes : — '- O happy living things ! No tongue Their beauty might...declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I bleued them unaware !"* Complacency may also rest upon what is abject and gross : it may long for that... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. s \Vas a Hash of golden fire. 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 páginas
...Fell off in hoary flakes. By the light of the moon he bcholdeth God's creatures of the great calm; Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart,... | |
| 1846 - 436 páginas
...tracks of shining white, ££"«"' And when they reared, the elfish light Fell oif in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue ^.nVth" Their beauty might declare : tappinesi A spring of love gushed... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 páginas
...moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart,... | |
| John Spence (jr.), Young physician - 1847 - 184 páginas
...jumping their whole length out of the water, combing the waves, and seeming delighted with the foam. " Within the shadow of the ship, I watched their rich...swam, and every track Was a flash of golden fire." LETTER NO. III. The Sea an object of Study — Waves — A Phenomenon — A Summer Evening at Sea —... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 páginas
...shining white, torei'oMhi And when they reared, the elfish light ereat calmFell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty Their beauty might declare : happineM. A spring of love... | |
| John Spence (jr.), Young physician - 1847 - 160 páginas
...jumping their whole length out of the water, combing the waves, and seeming delighted with the foam. " Within the shadow of the ship, I watched their rich...Blue, glossy green and velvet black, They coiled and swain, and every track Was a flash of golden fire." LETTER NO. III. The Sea an object of Study —... | |
| William Henry Harvey - 1849 - 270 páginas
...in hoary flakes. " Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire : Blue, glossy-green, and velvet black They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire." But it is difficult, in the most glowing description, to convey an idea of the extraordinary effects... | |
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