I RODE one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice : a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, Such as from earth's embrace the salt ooze... Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Seite 5von Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1824 - 415 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1839 - 578 Seiten
...Of hillocks, heap'd from every shifting sand : Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds ; . . . . an uninhabited sea-side, Which the lone fisher, when...the tide makes A narrow space of level sand thereon ; ' Or the place of refuge found by the prescript Mazzenghi in the uninhabited Maremma of Tuscany,... | |
| 1917 - 784 Seiten
...evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land that breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice .... The tide makes A narrow space of level sand thereon...ride while day went down. This ride was my delight .... . . . . With a remembered friend I love To ride as then I rode; — for the winds drove The living... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1878 - 1366 Seiten
...embrace the salt ooze breeds, Is thU ; an uninhabited sea-side, i Which the lune fisher, when his »cl s are dried, Abandons ; and no other object breaks The...dwarf tree and some few stakes Broken and unrepaired. Substitute St. Andrews for Venice, and the North Sea for the Adriatic, and the portraiture of the desert... | |
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