 The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow, Or lie like pictures on the sand below; With all those bright red pebbles, that the sun Through the small waves...  Annual Register - Page 693edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Ainger - Poets, English - 1903 - 230 pages
...The glittering waters on the shingles rolled : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson...jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by : Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the parlour fire,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1903 - 692 pages
...The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson...spreading flow, Or lie like pictures on the sand below ; AVith all those bright red pebbles, that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon :... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 324 pages
...The glitt'ring waters on the shingles rolTd : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson...all those bright red pebbles, that the sun Through th« small waves so softly shines upon ; And those live lucid jellies which the eye Delights to trace... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 584 pages
...The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson...jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by : Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the parlour-fire,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - English literature - 1907 - 588 pages
...arm in arm, now parted, they behold The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd. • ••••* And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow,...jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by. The Bonugh, Letter XXIII. In the following passage we have a wonderfully graphic picture... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - Clergy - 1907 - 596 pages
...those bright red pebbles, that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon, . . . . . . The crimson weeds which spreading flow Or lie like pictures on the sand below, . . . Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the parlour-fire, — Tokens... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1908 - 642 pages
...The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson...shines upon; And those live lucid jellies which the eye Delight« to trace as they swim glitt'ring by : Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1910 - 720 pages
...The glittering waters on the shingles rolled : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson...softly shines upon; And those live lucid jellies which th« eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by : Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire,... | |
 | George Crabbe - Literary Criticism - 1914 - 664 pages
...The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson...red pebbles that the sun Through the small waves so sof tlyshines upon; And those live lucid jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glitt'ring... | |
 | George Crabbe - Literary Criticism - 1914 - 634 pages
...The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson...all those bright red pebbles that the sun Through thesmall waves so sof tlyshines upon; And those live lucid jellies which the eye Delights to trace... | |
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