 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 142 pages
...gold-fish rove ; There the waters murmur tranquilly, Through the bending twigs of the coral-grove. " There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag...like a banner bathed in slaughter. " There, with a Hght and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts... | |
 | William Jones (F. S.) - Marine animals - 1871 - 488 pages
...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...crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bath'd in slaughter!" FERCIVAL. j|T is in the warm sea regions that the glory of submarine scenery... | |
 | Universalism - 1874 - 1002 pages
..."Dulse?" I repeated, and instantly there came to my mind long forgotten lines in our old reading book : 11 And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter." I was interested, and said, " What do you do with it ?" " Eat it, ma'am." " Is it good ? " " For them... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...billows flow; The water is calm and still below, For the winds and the waves are absent there, And tiie sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless...the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slanghter: There with a light and easy motion The fan coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...glassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their...leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner biithed in slaughter. There, with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of npper air. There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag...the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slanghter. There, with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea ;... | |
 | Clara Corfield - 1877 - 136 pages
...amber, of purple, pale pinkj and emerald. And there are flowers, too, " There, with its waving Hade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent...water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To flush, like a banner red with slaughter! There, with a slight and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air. 3. There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag...is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. 4. There, with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea ; And the yellow... | |
 | English poetry - 1879 - 314 pages
...boughs, where the tides and billows flow; The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves arc absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars...the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slanghter. There, with a light .and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea ;... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1879 - 508 pages
...glow In the motionless fields of upper air. 4. There, with its waving blade of green, The sea flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson...is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. 5. There, with a light and easy motion, The fan coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow... | |
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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,... 
