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" Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. "Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet... "
The Etonian - Page 313
1820
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Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798 - 240 pages
...the ship I watch'd the water-snakes : They mov'd in tracks of shining white ; And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within...attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black They coil'd and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their...
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The Naval Chronicle, Volume 2

James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - 1799 - 714 pages
...watch'd the water-snakes: They mov'd in tracks of shining white ; And when they rear'd, the elfish light Within the shadow of the Ship I watch'd their rich...attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coil'd and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy Kving things ! no tongue Their...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...the ship I watch'd the water-snakes : They mov'd in tracks of shining -white; And whten they reair'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within...attire : Blue, glossy green, 'and velvet black They coil'd and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...mov'd in tracks of shining white j And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary Hakes. t Within the shadow of the ship I watch'd their rich...attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black They coil'd and swam ; and every track. Was a flash of golden fire. 174 O happy living things ! no tongue...
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...ship ' I watch'd the water-snakes; ' They mov'd in tracks of shining white $ ' and when they rear'd, the elfish light ' Fell off in hoary flakes. • 'Within...watch'd their rich attire: ' Blue, glossy green, and velvet-black ' They coil'd and swam; and every track * Was a flash of golden fire. ' O happy living...
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Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...water-snakes : They mov'd in tracks of shining white ; And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell oft' in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watch'd...attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black They coil'd and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things ! no tongue Their...
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The Annual Review and History of Literature, Volume 2

1804 - 994 pages
...I watch' '1 the \vater-snakes, fhrv n:.r.4il in tracks of shinini* white, *та when lltey rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within...attire ; Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coil'a and swam, and every track Was a flash of golden fire." Lyrical Ballads, i. 164. " About, about,...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two ..., Issue 356, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining...off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black They coiled and swam ; and every track...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 pages
...water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water- snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white ; And when they...off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black They coiled and swam ; and every track...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: The lord of the isles

Sir Walter Scott - 1815 - 466 pages
...highly poetical ballad of the Ancient Mariner :-~" ' « Beyond the shadow of the ship ..-..• I watched the water-snakes, They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elvish light Fell off in hoary flakes." -3 ...... NoteX. Ilemn in the rock, a passage there Sought...
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