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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... "
Thoughts on a Pebble, Or, A First Lesson in Geology - Page 53
by Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1849 - 102 pages
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Elocution: Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy

Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...spangle the flinty snow; Prom coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their lows, where Ihe tides and billow* flow; The water is calm and still below, For the winds and Ihe waves are absent there, And the sands — arc bright as Ihe stars, that glow In the molionlets...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...penrl-shells spangle the flinty snow; From cornl rocks the sen-plants lift Their hows, where the tides nnd billows flow; The water is calm and still below, For the winds aaid the waves are absent ihere, And the sands—arc bright as the stars, thai glow In the motionless...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...in the 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...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...
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Selections from the American Poets, Issue 111

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1848 - 332 pages
...in the 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...billows flow; The water is calm and still below, For the w.'nds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless...
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Gems of Poetry, from Forty-eight American Poets: Embracing the Most Popular ...

American poetry - 1848 - 276 pages
...mountain drift, And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the sea-plauts lift Then boughs, where the tides and billows flow ; The water is calm and still below. For the winus and waves are absent thev^. And the sands are brigmas me stars that glow In the motionless fields...
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The passover feasts and Old Testament sacrifices explained; by a lady [A ...

Anne Wright - 1849 - 216 pages
...down in the 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...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...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...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, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow, In the motionless fields of...
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Gems of Poetry

American poetry - 1850 - 264 pages
...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,...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...
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Chapters on the Common Things of the Sea-side

Anne Pratt - Botany - 1850 - 372 pages
...Equisetaceae, beside which our modern horsetails dwindle into insignificance. CHAPTER II. SEA-WEEDS. " The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, And...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...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...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,...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 FT the motionless fields of...
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