 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
 | Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - 1907 - 588 pages
...arm in arm, now parted, they behold The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd. • ••••* And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow,...jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by. The Bonugh, Letter XXIII. In the following passage we have a wonderfully graphic picture... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - 1907 - 596 pages
...those bright red pebbles, that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon, . . . . . . The crimson weeds which spreading flow Or lie like pictures on the sand below, . . . Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And will arrange above the parlour-fire, — Tokens... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1908 - 642 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...shines upon; And those live lucid jellies which the eye Delight« to trace as they swim glitt'ring by : Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire, And... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1910 - 720 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...softly shines upon; And those live lucid jellies which th« eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by : Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1914 - 664 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...red pebbles that the sun Through the small waves so sof tlyshines upon; And those live lucid jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glitt'ring... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1914 - 634 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...all those bright red pebbles that the sun Through thesmall waves so sof tlyshines upon; And those live lucid jellies which the eye Delights to trace... | |
 | Frank Vigor Morley - 1924 - 226 pages
...penetrating hate, as an old man in memory he had an inward longing till the last for the shingled beach, 'With all those bright red pebbles, that the sun ^ Through the small waves so softly shines upon The next entry is Wordsworth's sonnet beginning Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room, copied... | |
 | Crabbe - 1967 - 492 pages
...roll'd : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, 320 And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow,...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... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 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...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 of Bliss!... | |
 | 568 pages
...roll'd ; The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, 320 And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow,...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... | |
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