 | Cowper Rose - 1829 - 338 pages
...colours. " Within the shadow of the ship, I watch'd their rich attire, Blue, glossy green, and velret black ; They coiled and swam, and every track Was a flash of golden fire." A ship is the reverse of poetical, notwithstanding all that Cowper or Campbell can say about it. The... | |
 | 1834 - 896 pages
...water- snakes : They moved in tracts of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish lighi Fell off in hoary flakes. " Within the shadow of the ship...fire. " O happy living things ! no tongue their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint... | |
 | 1834 - 404 pages
...' Within the slmdow of the ship, I watched their gay attire ; Blue, glossy green and velvet hlack, They coiled and 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,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1835 - 352 pages
...still and awful red. They moved in tracks of shining whit*. And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship...fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint... | |
 | Thomas Braidwood Wilson - 1835 - 396 pages
...movements, especially during the night, were exceedingly beautiful. " Within the shadow of the boat, I watched their rich attire ; Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled, they swam, and every track Was a flash of golden fire." No untoward event occurred during the night,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 496 pages
...and awful red. 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...fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gusht from my heart, And I blessed them unaware ! Sure my kind saint... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 170 pages
...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...golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue " Their boauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware 9 : Sure my... | |
 | 1836 - 646 pages
...sea-snakes, whose movements during the nigh t were exceedingly beautiful. ' Within the shadow of the boat, I watched their rich attire ; Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled, they swam, and every track Was a flash of golden fire.' When the Sunday came:— " In the forenoon,... | |
 | 1836 - 636 pages
...sea-snakes, whose movements during the nigh t were exceedingly beautiful. • Within the shadow of the boat, I watched their rich attire ; Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled, they swam, and every track Was a flash of golden fire.' When the Sunday came : — " In the forenoon,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1838 - 492 pages
...and awful red. 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...fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gusht from my heart, And I blessed them unaware ! Sure my kind saint... | |
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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... 
