The Ancient MarinerD.C. Heath & Company, 1897 - 59 pages |
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A. C. SWINBURNE Albatross Alfoxden Ancient Mariner Ancyent Marinere beautiful bird black lips blew boat bright Bristol brook Christ's Hospital Christabel cloud Coleridge's Cottle crew curse dæmons dead doth Dowden dream dropt Dykes Campbell fear thee feel gentle ghastly glittering eye hath heard heart Heaven Hermit holy imagination kirk land of mist light lips Listen living look'd looked loud loveth Lyrical Ballads Macbeth mast mist and snow Moon mov'd moved nature Nether Stowey night noon o'er Ocean poem poetry poets pray Quantock Hills quoth rose round sails Samuel Taylor Coleridge says shadow shape ship shrieve Sibylline Leaves silent Sir Patrick Spens sleep song soul sound spake spirit stanza stood Stopford Brooke Stowey strange supernatural sweet tale things thou Wedding-Guest thought thro turn'd Twas voice WALTER PATER wind Wordsworth
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Page 25 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Page 19 - The sails at noon left off their tune, And the ship stood still also. The Sun, right up above the mast, Had fixed her to the ocean: But in a minute she 'gan stir, With a short uneasy motion Backwards and forwards half her length With a short uneasy motion. Then, like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound: It flung the blood into my head, And I fell down in a swound.
Page xvii - During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 23 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 31 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. " He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
Page 2 - He holds him with his glittering eye — The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child : The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone : He cannot choose but hear ; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Page 22 - This Hermit good lives in that wood Which slopes down to the sea. How loudly his sweet voice he rears ! He loves to talk with marineres That come from a far countree. He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve — He hath a cushion plump: It is the moss that wholly hides The rotted old oak-stump. The skiff-boat neared: I heard them talk, 'Why, this is strange, I trow! Where are those lights so many and fair, That signal made but now?
Page 15 - They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the...
Page 50 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Page 6 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon.