 | English poetry - 1879 - 314 pages
...is calm and still below, For the winds and waves arc absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper...the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slanghter. There, with a light .and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea ;... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1879 - 508 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... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1879 - 602 pages
...scarcely a ray of the sun can reach, the flowers of ocean are clothed with hues of splendour. For there ' The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter.' " It is thus with the believer. His surface qualities may not be so generally attractive. Gravity,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 488 pages
...calm and still below, For the winds and the waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper...blush like a banner bathed in slaughter : There with a.light and easy motion The fan coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; Aud the yellow and scarlet... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 328 pages
...absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air. 3. There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag...and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the deep clear sea. 4. And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea:... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of the upper air. There, with its waving blade of green,...seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter. * * * MRS. SIGOURNEY'S productions, mostly didactic, have 1< joyed a deserved popularity. Her lines,... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1880 - 296 pages
...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...the silent water ; And the crimson leaf of the dulse l is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. There, with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral... | |
 | Robert Steel - Forced labor - 1880 - 522 pages
...glow In the motionless field of upper air. ' There, with its wavy blade of green, The sea-flag btreams the silent water ; And the crimson leaf of the dulse...banner bathed in slaughter. ' There, with a light and wavy motion, Thu fun-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea ; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of... | |
 | Charles Ives - Bahamas - 1880 - 450 pages
...Glasses. Natural Aquariums. Carol Bowers and Grottoes. Sea Urchins. The Colored Divers. Life in the Rock. "There with a light and easy motion The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea, And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid the bowers of stone, While the waters murmur tranquilly... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the n Aud the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter : There, with... | |
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From coral rocks the sea-plants lift 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,... 
