NPPF: Seadarn
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 13 14:57:46 CDT 2003
Less nimbly now through brakes they wind,
And ford wild creeks where men have drowned;
They skirt the pool, avoid the fen,
And so till night, when down they lie,
Their steeds still saddled, in wooded ground:
Rein in hand they slumber then,
Dreaming of Mosby's cedarn den.
The Scout toward Aldie
by Herman Melville
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
Kubla Khan
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gently draw off the clear and tomb it yet,
For other twenty days, in cedarn casks!
Where through trance, surely, prophecy will set;
As, dedicated to light temple-tasks,
The young priest dreams the unknown mystery.
Through Ariadne, knelt disconsolate
In the seas marge, so welld back warmth which throbbd
With nuptial promise: she
Turnd; and, half-choked through dewy glens, some great,
Some magic drone of revel coming sobbd.
A Duet
by Thomas Sturge Moore
That instant, the White Whale made a sudden rush among the remaining
tangles of the
other lines; by so doing, irresistibly dragged the more involved boats
of Stubb and Flask towards his flukes; dashed them together like two
rolling husks on a surf-beaten beach, and then, diving down into the
sea, disappeared in a boiling maelstrom, in which, for a space, the
odorous cedarn chips of the wrecks danced round and round, like the
grated nutmeg in a swiftly stirred bowl of punch.
Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
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