| Samuel Gilman - Literature - 1856 - 580 pages
...imaginative. " THE CORAL GROVE. " 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,...beauty shine, Far 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... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...beaa'ti-ful 16. THE CORAL-GROVE. 1. DEEP in the wave is a coral-grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove ; Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of...beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine. 2. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift, Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow; The... | |
| W. J. Lake - 1857 - 176 pages
...unsettled life — " Where the sea- flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with the falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine Far down in the deep and glassy brine." Many of these " spats " unite and adhere to rocks and old shells ; form large... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...CCXCI.— THE CORAL GROVE. 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,...beauty shine, Far 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... | |
| W. J. Lake - Earth sciences - 1858 - 176 pages
...the attacks of large and small fish, on every side ; yet leading a roving and unsettled life — " Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with the falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine Far down in the deep and glassy brine." Many... | |
| W. J. Lake - Earth sciences - 1858 - 182 pages
...the attacks of large and small fish, on every side ; yet leading a roving and unsettled life — " Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with the falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine Far down in the deep and glassy brine." Many... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1859 - 1136 pages
...extract : THI CORAL GBOTI. 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,...beauty shine, Far 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... | |
| HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...single closely intimate friend. 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,...But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down iu the green and glassy brine. The floor is of sand, like the mountain drift; And the pearl-shells... | |
| Charles William Everest - American literature - 1860 - 484 pages
...is o'er." THE CORAL GROVE. 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,...beauty shine, Far 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... | |
| William Russell - 1861 - 312 pages
...OCEAN DEPTHS.] —Percival. " 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,...beauty shine Far down in the green and glassy brine." (" Quality," force, " stress," and pitch, as before.) 4. — [NATURE.] —Bryant. The mountains clasp... | |
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