ripple-lengthened

Updated: May 2, 2025

Or the southern waves may show the light not the image of the evening or the morning planet. But this, in a pool of the country Thames at night, is no ripple-lengthened light; it is the startling image of a whole large constellation burning in the flood. These reflected heavens are different heavens.

Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell - Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays

Or the southern waves may show the light not the image of the evening or the morning planet. But this, in a pool of the country Thames at night, is no ripple-lengthened light; it is the startling image of a whole large constellation burning in the flood. These reflected heavens are different heavens.

Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell - Essays