 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1868 - 714 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... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 904 pages
...peering forth of green on hedge and bank ; and like Coleridge's " Ancient Mariner," we said — " Oh ! happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might...gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware." It is impossible to gaze on the St Bernard pass without feelings of the deepest interest. It stands... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 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. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 264 pages
...creatures of the great calm ; Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things...love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. The self-same moment I could pray... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...Fell off in hoary flakes. By the li«ht "f the Moon he beholdeth fkxi's creatures of the great calm. " 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. Their hca1i1yand 1. Q ]lnppy living things ! HO tOngllC their happnicn.... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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. HAND-BOOK OF ENGLISH- LITERATURE. "O happy living thing* ' no tongue Their... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...the water-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white ; And, when they reared, the elfish li^ht " 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 huppy, living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...great . . . ( 1,1 i/, t i. i calm. 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. Theirbeau- Q happy living things ! no tongue happiness. Their beauty might... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 pages
...the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. They moved in tracks of shining white, pe^caTmT" ° f ' he 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. Their beauty might declare: happiness. O happy living things! no tongue... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 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. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring... | |
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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. 
