 | William Whitman Bailey - Botany - 1895 - 142 pages
...lines. They cluster around the names of our dear ones as fondly as our memories. VIII. SEA-WEEDS. " With its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams...seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter." No division of the vegetable kingdom has attracted more deserved attention than the seaweeds. Throughout... | |
 | English poetry - 1898 - 344 pages
...glassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain's drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their...silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea ; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...Their water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are as bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields...blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. There, with a slight and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 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... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - Readers - 1906 - 268 pages
...and still below, For the waves and winds are absent there ; And the sands are as bright as the sands that glow In the motionless fields of upper air. There,...silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen 147 And life in rare and beautiful forms Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - Readers - 1906 - 268 pages
...and still below, For the waves and winds are absent there ; And the sands are as bright as the sands that glow In the motionless fields of upper air. There,...silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen 147 And life in rare and beautiful forms Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the... | |
 | Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey - Colonies - 1913 - 198 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...seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter."* Mr. Charles Leavenworth, in his most delightful account of the Loo Choo Islands, which appeared in... | |
 | David Gibbs - Readers - 1914 - 252 pages
...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...blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter. There, with light and easy motion, The coral fan sweeps through the clear, deep sea, And the yellow and scarlet... | |
 | Stanley Thomas Williams - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 326 pages
...are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of open air: There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag...blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter: There, with light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea ; And the yellow and scarlet... | |
 | Norris Galpin Osborn - Connecticut - 1925 - 758 pages
...mysterious life on the floor of the sea: The water is calm and still below, For the waves and winds are absent there, And the sands are bright as the...seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter: Then with light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea; And the yellow and... | |
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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,... 
