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" And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold : And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen : Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between.... "
Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight - Page 55
by Half hours - 1856
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 7-8

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 pages
...where Did send a dismal sheen : no |jvjng jj^ was to Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — be seen. The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice...noises in a swound. At length did cross an albatross, Till a mat sea-bird, Thorough the fog it came ; ^ S^TE As if it had been a Christian soul, snow-fog,...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...men nor beasts we ken, — where no _, . * .. - bin,; thin The ice was all between. «.istobe seen. 2 — Thorough the fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. Till...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...grew wondrous cold ; And ice mast-high came floating by, " And through the drifts the snowy cliffs Did send a dismal sheen : Nor shapes of men nor beasts...noises in a swound. " At length did cross an albatross; Thorough the fog it came : As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. " It ate...
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Chambers's supplementary reader, selected from Miscellany of ..., Issue 2

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 pages
...men nor beasts we ken—• be seen. The ice was all between. Did send a dismal sheen : ££L?S& £% The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all...noises in a swound. At length did Cross an albatross, Till a great sea-bird, Thorough the fog it came; £ ni f ^ough^the As if it had been a Christian soul,...
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Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales, Issue 440

John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald. " And through the drifts the snowy clifts 55 l)id send a dismal sheen : Nor shapes of men nor beasts...was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around : 60 " At length did cross an Albatross. Thorough the fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian soul,...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 3-4

Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...ico, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts, the snowy clifts nid send a dismal sheen : Nor shapes of men, nor beasts...all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and bowled, Like noises in a awouud ! The Wridimtffu«*t heuctb the bridal muik; but the Mmri&er coa UaueUi...
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The Maritime Monthly, Volume 1

1873 - 712 pages
...emerald. And through the drifts, the snowy cliffs, Did §end a dismal sheen ; Nor shapes of men, nor beast we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here,...growled, and roared and howled. Like noises in a swound." When a storm arises amid these icy solitudes, the scene is grand and awful beyond all powers of description....
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Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around ; It crack'd and growl'd, and roar'd and howl'd, of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels...wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? — They sought hail'd it in God's name. It ate tho food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew ; The ice did...
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Poems, songs and ballads of the sea, compiled and arranged by C ..., Issue 631

Charles Bruce (writer of tales) - 1874 - 582 pages
...And it grew wondrous cold ; And ice mast high came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts, the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen :...noises in a swound. At length did cross an albatross, Thorough the fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the...
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Perils in the polar seas

mrs. A L Chisholm - 1874 - 332 pages
...And it grew wondrous cold ; And ice mast-high came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a dismal sheen ;...here, the ice was there, «; . The ice was all around, V It cracked and growled, and roared and howlud, A wild and ceaseless sound." MRS. 0. — -"About four...
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