 | 1871 - 378 psl.
...moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside. " Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes...reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 psl.
...up, And a star or two beside — "Her beams bemocked the sultry main Like April hoar-frost spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed...burnt alway A still and awful red. " Beyond the shadow nf the ship I watched the water snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white ; And when they reared,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 psl.
...ami cvcry>ftoiittcd rest, i they Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread ; 8 By the lieht Beyond the shadow of the ship of the moon J ' ho iichi.iii. I watched the water-snakes... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 psl.
...depth of his heart he can first give to her his blessing ! "Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watch'd the water-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. "Within the shadow of the ship I watch'd their rich... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - 1988 - 458 psl.
...groan of pain over on his stomach and stares at the water. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watch 'd the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. He is suddenly exalted and weeps. He rises and makes... | |
 | Bernard Smith - 1992 - 290 psl.
...all possible haste to fly from the danger.90 Forster's account should be compared with the stanza: Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes:...reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Forster's graphic description compares well with the descriptions from Bourzes91 and from Cook's third... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 psl.
...beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, 270 The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship, By the light of the I watched the water-snakes: Moon he behoideth They moved in tracks of shining white,... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 psl.
...111*1 fillip 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 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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 psl.
...is a silent joy at their arrival. Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red, By the light of the Moon he beholdeth God's creatures of the great calm. Beyond the shadow of the ship,... | |
 | Andrew Graham-Dixon - 1999 - 344 psl.
...effects may recall, too, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's descriptions of watersnakes, in The Ancient Mariner. 'They moved in tracks of shining white, / And when...reared, the elfish light / Fell off in hoary flakes . . . They coiled and swam; and every track /Was a flash of golden fire.'"' The climactic work in Tintoretto's... | |
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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. 
