Coleridge's Ancient MarinerLeach, Shewell, & Sanborn, 1889 - 72 pages |
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42 Edited Albatross ballad beauty bird black lips blessed breeze calm CHARLES LAMB Christ's Hospital cient Coleridge's Ancient Mariner countree crew curse dead Death dream dropt eighth stanza expression Faerie Queene fear feeling fourteenth stanza friends glittering eye gloss groan hath heard heart Heaven Hermit Highgate holy imagination iner John Ruskin KATHARINE LEE BATES kirk Kubla Khan land of mist last two lines light lips looked Lord Clive loud loveth Mariner's mast mind mist and snow mood Moon moonlight nature never night ocean penance picture poem poet poet's poetry pray Quantock Hills quoth rhyming effect emphasized sails SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE says Coleridge shadow Silas Marner sixth stanza skinny hand sleep song soul sounds spirit stars stood strange student suggested sweet tale tenth stanza thee things thought truth Twas voice weary Wellesley College wind words Wordsworth young youthful
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Page 31 - The sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon—" The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Page 52 - Laughed loud and long, and all the while His eyes went to and fro. "Ha! ha!" quoth he, "full plain I see, The Devil knows how to row." And now, all in my own countree, I stood on the firm land! The Hermit stepped forth from the boat, And scarcely he could stand. "O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!" The Hermit crossed his brow. "Say quick," quoth he, "I bid thee say What manner of man art thou?
Page 49 - This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart.
Page 32 - Did send a dismal sheen : Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around : It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound...
Page 39 - I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust.
Page 42 - The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge ; And the rain poured down from one black cloud ; The Moon was at its edge.
Page 53 - And all together pray. While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends. And youths and maidens gay...
Page 18 - There was a time when, though my path was rough, This joy within me dallied with distress, And all misfortunes were but as the stuff Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness : For Hope grew round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine.
Page 46 - But tell me, tell me ! speak again, Thy soft response renewing — What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing?
Page 32 - With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. 'And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold; And ice, mast-high, came floating 'by, As green as emerald.