| Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 196 страници
...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... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 страници
...shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful 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 :... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 448 страници
...one strongly of the description of the sea-snakes in Mr Coleridge's wild, but highly poetical ballad of the Ancient Mariner: — ' Beyond the shadow of...white, And when they reared, the elvish light Fell off hi hoary flakes.' NOTEK. 4 Eeum in the rock, a passage (here Sought the dark fortress by a stair So... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 432 страници
...T-h8toPC" 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 :... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 426 страници
...his heart 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 :... | |
| Walter Scott - 1857 - 390 страници
...wild but highly poetical ballad of the Ancient Mariner: — " 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 elvish light Fell off in hoary flakes." 1 [MS. — " And, bursting round the vessel's sides,... | |
| 1858 - 460 страници
...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 ;... | |
| Thomas Rymer Jones - 1858 - 588 страници
...the azure, gold, and silver rain of the pyrotechnist : — " 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 wateh'd their... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1858 - 536 страници
...vessel's sides. I bethought me of the gorgeous description of Coleridge, and felt all 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,... | |
| John Harper - 1860 - 480 страници
...Coleridge alludes in the following passage : — '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 heavy flakes. 210 THE BEEOK. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their... | |
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