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
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's poetry - 1854 - 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,...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,... | |
| American poetry - 1854 - 456 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,...changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and grassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-flsh rove, Wherethesea-flovverspreadsitsleavesofblue, Thal never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Für down in the green and glassy brine. The floor is of sand like tlie mountain-drift, And the peaii-shells... | |
| William Russell - 1855 - 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,...changeful beauty shine Far down in the green and glassy brme." (" Quality," force, " stress," and pitch, as before.) 4. — [NATURE.] —Bryant. The mountains... | |
| American poetry - 1855 - 458 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,...changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and grassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 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,...changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and grassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 482 pages
...wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold fish roye, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew,...changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and grassy brine." OUR young mate, and bis sole assistant, Bob Betts, had set about their work on the stream-cable... | |
| John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 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,...and changeful beauty shine Far down in the green and grassy brine. The floor is of sand like the mountain drift, And the pearl shells spangle the flinty... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - Shells - 1855 - 106 pages
...compress the air in the pearly cells, and down sinks the swimmer once again to his native depths, where "The floor is of sand like the mountain drift, And the pearl shells' spangle the flinty snow; And from coral rocks the sea-plants lift The water is calm and still below. For the winds and waves... | |
| Samuel Gilman - Literature - 1856 - 578 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... | |
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