DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine. Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals - Page 249by Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824Full view - About this book
| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...a coral grove Where the purple mullet and gold fish rove, BENJAMIN. Where the sea-flower spreads it leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew,...shells spangle the flinty snow; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift, Their boughs, when the tides and the billows flow; The water is calm and still below,... | |
| Anne Wright - 1849 - 216 pages
...mullet and gold fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with a falling dew ; But in bright and changeful beauty shine,...shells spangle the flinty snow; From coral rocks, the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow. The water is calm and still below,... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - Creation - 1849 - 146 pages
...mullet and gold fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with the falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine,...floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew,...beauty shine Far down in the green and glassy brine." (" Quality," force, " stress," and pitch, as before.) 4. — [NATCRE.] — Bryant. The mountains clasp... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew,...beauty shine Far down in the green and glassy brine." (" Quality," force, " stress," and pitch, as before.) 4. — [NATURE.] — Bryant. The mountains clasp... | |
| American poetry - 1850 - 264 pages
...wave is a Coral grove, Where the purple mullet, and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew,...floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the... | |
| Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...wave is a Coral-grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew,...green and glassy brine. The floor is of sand like the mountain-drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew,...floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 234 pages
...wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew,...floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the... | |
| Samuel Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 228 pages
...wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew,...beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine. Tjie floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From... | |
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