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
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 632 pages
...shingles rolled ; The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, 4 And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow,...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 - 1882 - 984 pages
...in the retarded brine, An.l search for crimson weeds, which spreading (low. Or lie like pictniesnn the sand below: With all those bright red pebbles. that the sun Through the small waves so softly And those live lucid jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by: Pearl-shells... | |
| Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1882 - 358 pages
...there are pretty green ones that "lie like pictures on the sands below," With all those bright-hued pebbles that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon. The borders of Oakmere abound with curious plants. One of the rarest of British grasses, the Calamagrostis... | |
| 1885 - 686 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 parlor fire... | |
| Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 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 crimson weeds, which spreading floAr, Or lie like pictures on the sand below; With all those bright red pebbles, that the sun Through... | |
| George Crabbe - 1888 - 294 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,—... | |
| T.E. Kebbel, M.A. - 1888 - 188 pages
...behold The glittering waters on the shingles roll'd : The timid girls half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for...which spreading flow, Or lie like pictures on the sands below : Tokens of bliss ! — ' Oh, horrible ! a wave Roars as it rises — save me, Edward !... | |
| Manchester Geographical Society - 1889 - 988 pages
...Crimson wood» that spreading flow Or lie like pictures on the Bands below, With all those smooth round pebbles that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon." À pleasing attribute of many plante is their tociability. They love their kin, and to live side by... | |
| Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 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 parlor Are.... | |
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