 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
 | Literature - 1849 - 648 pages
...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 - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 pages
...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... | |
 | William Henry Harvey - Coastal animals - 1849 - 270 pages
...some notion of their singular beauty :— " 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 rich attire : Blue, glossy-green, and velvet black They coiled and swam ; and every... | |
 | 1849 - 492 pages
...Coleridge, and felt all its beauty : " 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, glassy green, and velvet black : They curl'd and swam, and every... | |
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