 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...elfish light Fell off in hoary flukes. Their beauty and their bapplne». He blrraeth them In 111« bean. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1853 - 920 pages
...things before it, falls upon her as from the skies — a strong revulsion, like the witched mariner : " O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might...love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware." The tears came in floods irrestrainable... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...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...velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...of shining white, the"™""' And when they reared, the elfish light "''"' Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...velvet black, They coiled and swam , and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ' no tongue Their beauty might d^.lare : happinea... | |
 | Melchior Yvan - Voyages and travels - 1854 - 386 pages
...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...velvet black, They coiled and swam : and every track Was a flash of golden fire. 0 happy living things ! no tongue t Their beauty might declare : A spring... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 712 pages
...glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might...love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. The spell begins to break. The selfsame... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...of shining white, Seagx«20 And when they reared, the elfish light calm* Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...velvet black, They coiled and swam .; and every track Was a flash of golden fire, O happy living things ! no tongue ?h™VS Their beauty might declare :... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Marine animals - 1855 - 196 pages
...moved in tracks of shining' white, And when they reared, the elfin light Fell off in hoary flakes. 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might...gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware. COLERIDGE'S Ancient Mariner. GLAUCTJS; OB, THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE. Totr are going down, perhaps,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden firo. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might...love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. The selfsame moment I could pray... | |
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O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. 
