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" 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 poetical works of S.T. Coleridge - Page 13
by Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1835
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 478 pages
...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...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. ,45 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare ; A spring of love gusht from my heart,...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...God's ,They moved In tracks of shining white, Seagx«20 And when they reared, the elfish light calm* Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the...of golden fire, O happy living things ! no tongue ?h™VS Their beauty might declare : happiness. A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed...
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Gleanings from the Poets, for Home and School

1855 - 458 pages
...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...Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swarp , and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ' no tongue Their beauty...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 9; Volume 101

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1855 - 922 pages
...aurora in the skies. Coleridge, in the ' Ancient Mariner/ says of the phosphorescent animals : — ' Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...swam : and every track Was a flash of golden fire.' The less splendid displays on our coasts are described by Crabbe. ' And now your view upon the ocean...
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Glaucus; or, The wonders of the shore

Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 202 pages
...tracks of shining white, And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. * * » * 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware. COLERIDGE'S Ancient Mariner. GLAUCUS; OB, THE WONDERS...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...red. Beyond the shadow of tho ship I watehed 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 watehed their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining whita And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. 60 Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, aud velvet black,...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 126 pages
...watched the water-snakes : т-ч_ j * » ri • • i- • 1 hey moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. E Their btauty and "O happy living things! no tongue their Ьарршем. , . ., . . . 1 heir beauty...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 123

1919 - 1066 pages
...rufulus, — olive and pink in color, is almost incomparably beautiful. One recalls Coleridge's lines: Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare. Were it not for the fact that snakes are wholesale and consistent cannibals, these creatures would...
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Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 1

Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...happiness of the animals floating in his sight ; and when from his lips breaks a blessing upon them, — " O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare. A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And 1 bless'd them unaware. Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I bless'd...
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