 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 426 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...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...the water-snakes : They moved in tracts 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 gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware. Sure my kind saint... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 432 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...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... | |
 | 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...fire. O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare. Were it not for the fact that snakes are wholesale and consistent cannibals, these creatures... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 126 pages
...• • i- • 1 hey moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. "Within the shadow of the ship...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 pages
...elfish light Fell oil' in hoary flakes Their beauty and their happlueaa. He blesscth them in his heart. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...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... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1858 - 502 pages
...its beauty : — " 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, glassy green, and velvet black : They curled, and swam, and every track Was a flash of golden fire."... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...creatures of They moved in tracks of shining white, cairf.re"" And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship...swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Their beau- Q happy living things ! no tongue ty and their _ .riv ° happiness. Their 'beauty might... | |
 | Ellen Luscombe - 1861 - 184 pages
...reminded us of that beautiful passage in the Ancient Mariner so beloved by all marine naturalists — " Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...They coiled and swam, and every track Was a flash of living fire. O happy living things ! no tongue This beauty might declare." So charming was the sight... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...shadow of the ship I watch'd their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coil'd and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. " O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd 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... 
