 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 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... | |
 | Benjamin W. Atwell - Elocution - 1867 - 106 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 motion'ess fields of upper air ; There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1867 - 728 pages
...water is calm and still Ъе1он", For the winds and waves are ffhsent there ; And the shells are ns bright as the stars that glow, In the motionless fields of the upper air." The ocean phenomenon of whirlpools appears to be caused by currents encountering submarine obstacles,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 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... | |
 | American Tract Society - American literature - 1868 - 172 pages
...floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From the coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where...as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air. There, with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea ;... | |
 | Abby Amy Tenney - Animal behavior - 1868 - 160 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... | |
 | Simon Kerl - English language - 1868 - 396 pages
...kindred feet, and hence they are sometimes used promiscuously. Ex.— « For the winds and the waves ire absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow." The trochee and the dactyl are kindred feet, and hence they are sometimes used promiscuously. Ex.—... | |
 | William Jones (F. S.) - Marine animals - 1871 - 488 pages
...appearance. CHAPTER XVIII. SUBMARINE SCENERY. " 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 blades of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And... | |
 | Fishing - 1871 - 72 pages
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For the winds and the 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 the crimson leaf of the dulse... 
