| Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From...as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air : There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine. Tjie floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From...as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air : There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...Their boughs where the tides and billows flow ; The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air ; There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And... | |
| Society of Friends. Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting - 1858 - 124 pages
...sea, go down not many rods, " The water ia calm and still below, For the winds and waves are noiseless there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless field of upper air. And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of etone,... | |
| American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...beauty shine, Far down in the green and grassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From...as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air ; There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And... | |
| Mary Virginia Terhune - 1854 - 416 pages
...is the surface !" she spoke exultingly — ' '' The water is calm and still below; For the winds and waves are absent there,— And the sands are bright...as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air." . " Those are fine lines !" said Ida. They were recited with a purity of tone and emphasis... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's poetry - 1854 - 264 pages
...Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow ; The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air ; There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And... | |
| 1854 - 550 pages
...below, In the motionless fields of upper air: There, with its waving blade of green, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush,... | |
| 1854 - 512 pages
...sea, go down not many rods, " The water \B calm and still below, For the winds and waves are noiseless there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless field of upper air. And lite, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of {tone,... | |
| American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...beauty shine, Far down in the green and grassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow; From...as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air; There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And... | |
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