 Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward, from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this...  Natural history. Mollusca - Page 23by Philip Henry Gosse - 1854Full view - About this book
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1827 - 296 pages
...ministers ; They know not what they are, nor what they do : O for the beings for whom these were made !" Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward...to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light. Worth all the dead creation, in that hour, To me appear'd this lonely Nautilus, My fellow-being, like... | |
 | Scotland - 1827 - 808 pages
...Keel upward from the deep emerged л shell. Shaped like the moon ете half her horn fo fil I'd ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose. And...to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light. Worth all the dead creation, in that hour. To me appearM this lonely Nautilus, My fellow-being, like... | |
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1827 - 198 pages
...as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put owt a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting...to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light. Worth all the dead creation, in that hour, To me appear'd this lonely Nautilus, My fellow-being, like... | |
 | 1827 - 604 pages
...of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a two fold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In...to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light. Worth all the dead creation, in that hour To me appear'd this lonely Nautilus, My fellow-being, like... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...rose, 90 91 And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this liltle bark Put oui a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting...to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light Worth all the dead creation, in that hour, To me appear 'd this lonely Nautilus, My fellow-heing, like... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...this little bark Put oat a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a two-lbld Bail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy...to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light. Worth all the dead creation, in that hour, To me appear'd this lonely Nautilus, My fellow-being, like... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Children's literature, English - 1834 - 294 pages
...like the moon ere half her horn is fill'd ; Fraught with young life, it righted as it rose, And moyed at will along the yielding water ; The native pilot...feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light." You have read and heard of pirates and buccaneers ; and it is remarkable, that some of the cuttle-fish... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1834 - 262 pages
...native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting hreeze a two-fold sail, And mounted up and glided down the...feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light." You have read and heard of pirates and buccancers ; and it is remarkable, that some of the cuttle-fish... | |
 | Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...wafting breeze a twofold sail, * Edin. Phil. Journ., xvi. 313. f Blainville, Man. de Malacologie, p. 149. And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy...feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light." * Such is the uniform account handed down to us by naturalists and poets from a very early period ;... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 516 pages
...of oars on eithor side. Spread to the wafting breeze a two-fold Sail, And mounted up and glided duwn the billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light. Worth all the dead creation, in that hour, To me eppear'd this lonely Nautilus, My fellow-being, like... | |
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