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 - Page 1131828Full view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry, Modern - 1836 - 170 pages
...huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship7, I watched the water-snakes : They moved in tracks...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1836 - 496 pages
...spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. They moved in tracks of shining white ; And when they...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 358 pages
...the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. THE ANCIENT MARINER. They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1838 - 492 pages
...spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. They moved in tracks of shining white ; And when they...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... | |
| Hatchway (lieut, R.N., pseud.) - 1838 - 922 pages
...to break The silence of the see. » * » 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. COLERIDGE'S Ancient Manner. " DID you ever hear my story about the timber ship?" ask Dick Slender of... | |
| 1839 - 532 pages
...poem, The Rime of the Ancient Marinere. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water snakes ; They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they...off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship, I watched their gay attire ; Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam, and every... | |
| Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...poem, The Rime of the Ancient Marinere. Beyond tho 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 iu hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship, I watched their gay attire ; Blue, glossy green, and... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1841 - 410 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...water burnt alway A rtill and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water snakes : dreary pr $ I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...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... | |
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