The Rime of the Ancient MarinerScott, Foresman, 1898 - 111 pages |
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Albatross Alfoxden alms anapest ancient Mariner beauty bird boat breeze castle Christ Christ's Hospital cient Mar cold Coleridge College countree crew crust curse dead Death deck ding-Guest dream eyes fear gate green happy hath heard heart Heaven Hermit Holy Grail iamb iner Instructor in English JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Kubla Khan land of mist leper light LINDSAY TODD DAMON looked loud loved loveth Lowell Lowell's Lyrical Ballads Mariner's mast mate mist and snow Moon morning moved nature never night Ocean picture Pilot's poem poet poetic poetry PRELUDE Quantock Quantock hills quoth rhyme RIME ROBERT HERRICK rotting round sails SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE says seemed ship shrieve Sir Launfal soul sound spirits stan stanza stars stood strange suggested summer syllable thee things thought Twas verse Vision of Sir vivid voice WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY wind word Wordsworth young
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Page 97 - Not what we give, but what we share — For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three — Himself, his hungering neighbor, and Me.
Page 37 - Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a Death? and are there two? Is Death that Woman's mate? Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.
Page 85 - We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell; We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing; The breeze comes whispering in our ear That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing. That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by...
Page 32 - And I had done a hellish thing. And it would work 'em woe: For all averred. I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Page 84 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives...
Page 49 - Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath no blast; His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast— If he may know which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.
Page 40 - The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they ;The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is a curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.
Page 46 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 41 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. "Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 40 - I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet.