 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 Borough: A Poem, in Twenty-four Letters - Page 276by George Crabbe - 1816 - 292 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 pages
...shingles rolled ; The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, 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.... | |
 | Ocean lays - 1864 - 400 pages
...shingles rolled : The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip their small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow,...the sand below With all those bright red pebbles, which the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon ; And those live, lucid jellies, which... | |
 | Louisa Lane Clarke - 1865 - 176 pages
...gathered ! " Crimson weeds which spreading flow, Or lie liko pictures on tne sand below, With all these bright red pebbles that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon." Look at it closely with a pocket lens : you will see on some plants the red berry called favella, on... | |
 | Leo Hartley Grindon - 1866 - 592 pages
...the opening buds of the balsam poplar. Happy again, who, when he visits the sea-side, is quick to the Crimson weeds which spreading flow, Or lie like pictures...sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon. There la no greater mistake than to suppose that a minute knowledge of nature is requisite either to... | |
 | 1867 - 128 pages
...shingles rolled. The timid girls, half-dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine And search for crimson weeds, which, spreading, flow,...the small waves so softly shines upon ; And those live-lucid jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by : Pearl-shells and rubied... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1867 - 630 pages
...with the graceful, rich, bright red Plocamium, remembering the snnny shore where it was gathered. " Crimson weeds which spreading flow. Or lie like pictures on the sand below. With all these bright nil pebbles that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon." Look at it closely... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 528 pages
...shingles rolled ; The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, 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.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 266 pages
...shingles rolled ; The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, 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.... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 200 pages
...shingles rolled ; The timid girls half dreading their design, Dip the small foot in the retarded brine, And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow,...jellies which the eye Delights to trace as they swim glittering by ; Pearl shells and rubied starfish they admire, And will arrange above the parlour fire.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 pages
...brine. And search for crimson weeds, which spreading Or lie like pictures on the sand below ; [flow, With all those bright red pebbles, that the sun Through...live lucid jellies which the eye Delights to trace as ihey swim gliil'ring by : Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire. And will arrange above the... | |
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