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Her masts and spars immense in jewelled mist Shimmered: her rigging, like an emerald web Of golden spiders, tangled half the stars!

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

The hawk-moth, the currant-moth, the red-striped tiger-moth Shimmered all around me, so white shone those pages; And, in among the blue boughs, the bats flew low.

From The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems by Nichols, Spencer Baird