 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...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Seite 1131828Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water snakes : g care : No children run to lisp their sire's return,...kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickl I watched their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every... | |
 | 1849 - 648 Seiten
...surf which menaced him with destruction, and revelled in the luxuries of a capital fishing station — They moved in tracks of shining white ; And when they...reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Perhaps, Irke the Ancient Mariner, he " blessed them unaware ;" but thus he writes of them : — Among... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 Seiten
...unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected, and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes...reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. By the light of the moon he bcholdeth God's creatures of the great calm; Within the shadow of the ship... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...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 attire ; Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coil'd and swam; and every... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 Seiten
...the ship I watch'd the \vater-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they rear'd, h they had fain opposed, but that they conld not WALLKNSTEIN. Not to the I watch'd their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coil'd and swam ; and every... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 414 Seiten
...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." VOL. V. 4 It seems as if old Ocean shakes From... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes ; etVd'od;; They moved in tracks of shining white, ££"«"' And when they reared, the elfish light Fell oif in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire ; Blue, glossy green,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 Seiten
...spread ; And 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...off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1847 - 580 Seiten
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 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 Seiten
...water-snakes : tares of the lll ,, 1,1 1^11. Gud'scroa- They moved in tracks of shining white, great calm. 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 black, They coiled and swam ; and every... | |
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