 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...  The Lord of the Isles: A Poem - Side 305af Walter Scott - 1815 - 443 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1850 - 268 sider
...innumerable hosts of minute animals sporting on the wave. Coleridge well describes this phenomenon in his ' Ancient Mariner :' ' Beyond the shadow of the ship...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 :... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 sider
...animals sporting on the wave. Coleridge well describes this phenomenon in his ' Ancient Marnaer :' ' Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes...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 :... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 sider
...creature's path." To this the words of Coleridge may well be applied : — " I watched the water snakes ; They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. * * * » And every track Was a flash of golden fire." In this... | |
 | Melchior Yvan - 1854 - 386 sider
...spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship *, I watched the water-snakes...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 ;... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 sider
...Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes ; THE EHr&DB OF THE ANCIENT MAEI1TEE. 173 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,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 sider
...lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of 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... | |
 | William Henry Harvey - 1854 - 350 sider
...notion of their singular beauty : — " 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 Hakes. " Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire :... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 478 sider
...spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. ^(X~ Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes...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... | |
 | 1855 - 458 sider
...spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes...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 ;... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 196 sider
...our Father in Heaven. Yours ever gratefully and faithfully, C. KINGSLEY. BIDEFORD, April 24, 1855. BEYOND the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes...tracks of shining' white, And when they reared, the elfin light Fell off in hoary flakes. 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare... | |
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