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" For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars, that glow In the motionless fields of upper air... "
Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches: Being the Miscellaneous Writings of J ... - Page 209
by J. Cypress - 1842
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 21; Volume 39

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 608 pages
...gay and gaudy irregularity, while the most beautiful fishes are on every side sporting around. • 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...
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Miriam Coffin: Or The Whale-fishermen. A Tale ...

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...
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The Laurel: a Gift for All Seasons: Being a Collection of Poems

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...
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The Poets of America, Volume 1

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...
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The Poets of America: Illustrated by One of Her Painters...

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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

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...
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

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...
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Poetry for Home and School ...

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...
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Thoughts on a Pebble, Or, A First Lesson in Geology

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...
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Chapters on the Common Things of the Sea-side

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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