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... Annual Register - Page 693edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...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...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 - 1880 - 642 pages
...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...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 fireTokens... | |
| George Frederick L. Bampfield - 1880 - 544 pages
...be most lovely in vegetation. Crimson weeds which spreading flow Or lie like pictures on the sands below With all those bright red pebbles that the sun Through the small waves so softly shines upon. The weed most likely to attract attention will be Ccramium, floating out from the rock. There are four... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pages
...The glittering waters on the shinirles rolled ; 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 pictnr: s on the sand below ; With all those bright red pebbles that the ean Through the small waves... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 pages
...waters on the shingles rolled ; The timid girls, half dreading their design, Dip the small foot iu the retarded brine, And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow Or lie like pictures on the earn! below ; With all those bright red pebbles thut the sun Through the small waves so softly shines... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 pages
...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...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
...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...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... | |
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