Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They 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 attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet... First (-Sixth) illustrated reader - Página 241de Illustrated reader - 1874Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water snakes : g care : No children run to lisp their sire's return,...sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...water burnt alway A rtill and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water snakes : dreary pr $ \Vas a Hash of golden fire. 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring... | |
| 1849 - 648 páginas
...surf which menaced him with destruction, and revelled in the luxuries of a capital fishing station — They moved in tracks of shining white ; And when they...reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Perhaps, Irke the Ancient Mariner, he " blessed them unaware ;" but thus he writes of them : — Among... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 páginas
...unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected, and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes...reared, the elfish light 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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 páginas
...the ship, I watch'd the water snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. " Within the shadow of the ship I watch'd their rich attire ; Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coil'd and swam; and every track... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 páginas
...the ship I watch'd the \vater-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watch'd their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coil'd and swam ; and every... | |
| 1846 - 436 páginas
...alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes ; etVd'od;; They moved in 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 attire ; Blue, glossy green,... | |
| 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 —... | |
| 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 —... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 páginas
...water-snakes : tares of the lll ,, 1,1 1^11. Gud'scroa- They moved in tracks of shining white, great calm. And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Their O happy living things ! no tongue tteS'haJ? 11 Their beauty might declare : 1 A spring of love... | |
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