can you simplified this sentence?

Question

A WIDE plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.

A WIDE plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.
On this mighty tide the black ships - laden with the fresh-scented fir-planks, with rounded sacks of oil-bearing seed, or with the dark glitter of coal - are borne along to the town of St Ogg's, which shows its aged, fluted red roofs and the broad gables of its wharves between the low wooded hill and the river brink, tinging the water with a soft purple hue under the transient glance of this February sun.

Answer 1

The river Floss rushes to the sea through a wide plain; the river's power is diminished by the tide that meets it. Ships travel on this tide to St. Ogg's, a picturesque older town.

Answer 2

"A WIDE plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace. "

It is admirable that you recognize the need to simplify. What has happened here is that the author combined several thoughts into one long and hard to read sentence, When in fact, she should have broken the sentence up into shorter sentences, each one covering a single thought. Let's try these as examples:

A wide plain checked the passage of the broadening Floss with an impetuous embrace. Yet the river hurried on between green banks as it rushed to meet the sea's loving tide.

Two thoughts (what the plain is doing and what the river is doing) deserve two sentences of equal weight (importance).

Answer 3

Some body of water flows out and the tide comes in at the same time.

Answer 4

the water hits a boat gently as it's coming into port at st. oggs.

Answer 5

The plain in Spain lie gently in the rain