American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 150
eir golden beguiling. AMERICAN ART 637 The drawing entitled The Shining Sea also deserves high praise for its effective arrangementof light and shade. It would be a happy adjunct to Mrs. Craiks beautiful verses entitled Atthe Seaside, which we will venture to quote entire : — Oh solitary, shining… … The Shining Sea. Drawn by Woodward. And build child-castles, and dig moats Upon the quiet sands,And twist the cliff-convolvulus Once more round idle hands, Strange, strange, to think how some of themTheir silver sails have furled;And some have whitely glided downInto the under world. And look…
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