 | David Gibbs - 1914 - 252 ページ
...like a banner bathed in slaughter. There, with light and easy motion, The coral fan sweeps through the clear, deep sea, And the yellow and scarlet tufts...life in rare and beautiful forms Is sporting amid these bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful Spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave... | |
 | Kate Ethel Mary Dumbell - 1914 - 210 ページ
...' sunshine, dark in the shadow, while the glint of the goldfish now here, now there, never ceases. "And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe, where the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own." * The seaweed is so heavy... | |
 | Kate Ethel Mary Dumbell - 1920 - 230 ページ
...the sunshine, dark in the shadow, while the glint of the goldfish now here, now there, never ceases. "And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe, where the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own."* The seaweed is so heavy... | |
 | Edward Harmon Gates - 1923 - 264 ページ
...like a banner bathed in slaughter. There, with a light and easy motion, The fan coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea ; And the yellow and scarlet tufts...spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own. # * * # * Then, far below in the peaceful sea, The purple mullet and goldfish rove, There the waters... | |
 | Stanley Thomas Williams - 1923 - 326 ページ
...like a banner bathed in slaughter: There, with light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea ; And the yellow and scarlet tufts...of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea. So Arnold's poem is touched with the magic of life in the sea-deeps; we dream, almost believing, of... | |
 | Milo Milton Quaife, Joseph Schafer, Edward Porter Alexander - 1924 - 550 ページ
...James H. Dana, delivering at New Haven a popular address on the coral formations, quo ted these lines : And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone. In 1859 William Cullen Bryant, comparing favorably Percival's "brilliancy of imagery and sweetness... | |
 | Norris Galpin Osborn - 1925 - 758 ページ
...blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter: Then with light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts...of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea. The tragedy of Percival was that of a high endowment unsupported by singleness of purpose. He has all... | |
 | 1861 - 908 ページ
...sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow. "And life in rare and beautiful forme Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe,...wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the waves his own." * Upon the bottom, at various depths, lies that brilliant Radiate — type of his class... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - 1998 - 598 ページ
...a celebration of an ambiguous calm. The explicit atmosphere of the coral grove is one of peace. All is . . . safe, when the wrathful spirit of storms,...when the ship from his fury flies, Where the myriad voice of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting the wreck... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 ページ
...down in the green and glassy brine. There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts...of ocean, Are bending like corn on the upland lea. His favorite scenes involve complicated atmospheric effects — the sun rising over a sea of mist and... | |
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There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter : There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep... 
