 Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this...  Magazine of Natural History - Page 5261830Full view - About this book
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1827 - 198 pages
...ministers; They know not what they are, nor what they do: 0 for the beings for whom these were made !" Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward...a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is fill'dj Fraught with young l:fe, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water.... | |
 | 1827 - 604 pages
...gratified,—and nothing can be more exquisitely imagined than the passage which follows. ' Light aa a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from the...a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled. Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water.... | |
 | Scotland - 1827 - 808 pages
...Girt with inferior ridges, at the point, Where light and darkness meet in spectral gloom. " Light «sa flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from the deep emerged л shell. Shaped like the moon ете half her horn fo fil I'd ; Fraught with young life, it righted... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...They know not what they are, nor what they do : О for the beings for whom these were made ! I i" lit as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from...emerged a shell. Shaped like the moon ere half her bom is fill'd ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, '.Ht 91 And moved at will along the... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Children's literature, English - 1834 - 294 pages
...love. I should like you, too, to learn the beautiful description of it given by Mr. Montgomery : " Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward,...Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moyed at will along the yielding water ; The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...ministers ; They know not what they are, nor what they do : О for the beings for whom these were made ! " Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward...the moon ere half her horn is fill'd ; Fraught with youpg life, it right«) as it rose, 00 THE PELICAN ISLAND. And moved at will along the yielding water.... | |
 | Perceval B. Lord - Physiology - 1839 - 476 pages
...than water, to move gracefully on its surface. Light as a flake of foam upon the wind , Keel•upward from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon...rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. Worth all the dead creation, in that hour, To me appeared this lonely nautilus. We have now traced... | |
 | 1839 - 496 pages
...Montgomery to the following beautiful description ; " Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upwards, from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn ¡s fill'd ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And mov'd at will along the yielding water.... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 516 pages
...ministers ; They know not what they are, nor what thoy do : O for the beings for whom these were made ! " Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward...emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her hom is fill'd, Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...reading of this piece, should not be allowed to become prosaic, yet should be kept free from ' singing.'] Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward, from the deep emerged a shell, * Pronounced JanVblicus. f Pronounced DSsheus. Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled : .... | |
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