| Joseph C. Hart - Nantucket Island (Mass.) - 1835 - 210 pages
...with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the snow : From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow : The water... | |
| American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow ; The water is... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine, The floor is of sand like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow ; The water is... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine, The floor is of sand like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow ; The water is... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their houghs, where the tides and billows flow; The water is... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...with fallen dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green, and glassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their )K>WB, where the tides and billows flow; The water is... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow ; The water is... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - Creation - 1849 - 146 pages
...the falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow ; The water is... | |
| Anne Pratt - Botany - 1850 - 372 pages
...Equisetaceae, beside which our modern horsetails dwindle into insignificance. CHAPTER II. SEA-WEEDS. " The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow, From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs where the tides and billows flow ; The water is calm... | |
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