 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 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... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales) - 1874 - 582 pages
...moved in tracts 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 256 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...silent joy at their arrival. By the light of the moon he hehuldeth God'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. Jn,i'theuTapy " O happy living things ! no tongue Pin,.B8. Tneir beauty... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Anthologies - 1875 - 240 pages
...glossy green, and velvet Hack, 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 selfsame moment I could pray... | |
 | Phrenology - 1876 - 1000 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. Oh happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare ; A spring... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...tracks of shining white ; ofithe great ^^ WQen faey reare j> tne 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. t^ai'uheu ^ haPPv living things ! no tongue happiness. Their beauty might... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. ' \Vas a flash of golden fire. ' О happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...stars that still sojourn, yet slill movi: onward. Hebiesseth them in Ins 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 firo. ° 'mppy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare ; A spring... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...in tracks of shining white, 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 jrolden fire. Their beau- 0 happy living things ! no tongue ly anil their "™ happiness.... | |
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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. 
