 The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow, Or lie like pictures on the sand below; With all those bright red pebbles, that the sun Through the small waves...  The Port Folio - Page 4641810Full view - About this book
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 224 pages
...behold The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for...the eye Delights to trace as they swim glitt'ring by : • Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the parlour-fire, — Tokens... | |
 | 1834 - 424 pages
...behold The glittering waters on the shingle roll'd; The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for...small waves so softly shines upon; And those live lucidicllies which the eye, Delights to trace as they swim glittering by : Pearl shells, and rubied... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1825 - 1096 pages
...behold The glitt'ring Waters on the Shingles roll'd : The timid Girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small Foot in the retarded Brine, And search for...the eye Delights to trace as they swim glitt'ring by : Pearl-shells and Rubied Star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the Parlour-fire, — Tokens... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1899 - 540 pages
...behold The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for...jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by : Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the parlour-fire^—... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...behold The glittering waters on the shingles rolled : The timid girls, half dreading their i design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for...jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by: Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the parlor fire,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1839 - 342 pages
...behold The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for...jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by : Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the parlour-fire,... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1840 - 474 pages
...animals of the British Islands include the sertullarise, flustrse, actinia, or sea anemone, star-fish, And those live lucid jellies which the eye Delights to trace, as they swim glittering by. We have few native species of corals ; the most remarkable is the May-blossom coral,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...behold The glittering waters on the shingles rolled: The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip easure gay : See her bright robes the butterfly unfold, Broke from her wintry glittering by ; Pearl shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the parlour fire.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...behold The glittering waters on the shingles rolled: The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip ghtingale. My ran Through the small waves so softly shines upon ; And those live lucid jellies which the eye Delights... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 pages
...behold The glittering waters on the shingles rolled ; The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for...jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by; Pearl shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the parlour fire.... | |
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