 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...spread ; But where the Ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes...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 attire :... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water- snakes : They 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 attire :... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1815 - 468 pages
...interesting which is witnessed in the Hebrides : at times the ocean appears entirely illuminated around the vessel, and a long train of lambent coruscations are...reared, the elvish light Fell off in hoary flakes." Note X. Heam in the rock, a passage there Sought the darkfortress by a stair So strait, so high, so... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...the Moon he beholdeth God's creatures of the great calm. \ Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watch'd the water-snakes : They 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 watch'd their rich attire :... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 338 pages
...one strongly of the description of the sea-snakes in Mr. Coleridge's wild, hat highly poetical hallad of the Ancient Mariner : — " Beyond the shadow of...reared, the elvish light Fell off in hoary flakes." Note X. ffcwn in the rocfr, a. passage there Songht the dark fortress hy a. stair So strait, so high,... | |
 | 1820 - 696 pages
...shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watoh'd the water-snakes: . They 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 watch'd their rich attire :... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...shadow lay. The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watch'd the water-snakes: They 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 watch'd their rich attire :... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 410 pages
...wild, but highly poetical ballad of the Ancient Mariner :— " Beyond the shadow of the ship I watch'd the water-snakes, They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they rear'd, the elvish light Fell off in hoary flakes." NoteX. Hewn in the rock, a passage there Sought... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 290 pages
...but highly poetical ballad of the Ancient Mariner : — " Beyond the shadow of the «hip I watch'd the water-snakes, They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they rear'd, the elvish light Fell off in hoary flakes." Note X. Hewn in the rode, a passage there Sought... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watch'd the water-snakes : They 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 watch'd their rich attire :... | |
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Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes : They 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 attire; Blue, glossy green, and velvet... 
