The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Christabel, and Other PoemsC.E. Merrill Company, 1907 - 156 pages |
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Christabel, and Other Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge No preview available - 2018 |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Christabel, and Other Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge No preview available - 2018 |
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Christabel, and Other Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge No preview available - 2018 |
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Albatross Alfoxden allusion anapestic Ancient Mariner Bard beautiful bird Blackwood's Magazine Bracy breeze bright Campbell Charles Lamb charm Christabel cloud Cole Coleridge Coleridge's crew dæmons dead doth Dove Cottage dread dream edition English fear gentle Geraldine glittering gloss hath heard heart Heaven imagination John Sterling Kubla Khan lady light lines Literature lofty look loud Lyrical Ballads maid Marinere mind mist Moon moral nature Nether Stowey never night notes o'er old ballads opium pain Pantisocracy passage poet poet's poetic poetry pray prose Quantock Hills quoth rhyme Roland de Vaux round sails Samuel Taylor Coleridge says seems shadow ship sings Sir Leoline sleep sonnet soul sounds Southey spake spirit stanza stars stood Stowey strange supernatural sweet tale tell thee things thou thought throughout the poem vision voice weary Wedding-Guest wild wind words Wordsworth written wrote youth
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Page 64 - The harmless Albatross. The spirit who bideth by himself In the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow.
Page 57 - The many men, so beautiful ! And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 50 - 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 58 - 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.
Page 48 - By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? 'The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.' He holds him with his skinny hand, 'There was a ship,
Page 73 - Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company! — To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay ! Farewell, farewell!
Page 99 - Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail; And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Page 51 - Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist. 'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay, That bring the fog and mist.
Page 56 - Four times fifty living men, (And I heard nor sigh nor groan) With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one. The souls did from their bodies fly, They fled to bliss or woe! And every soul, it passed me by, Like the whizz of my cross-bow!
Page 52 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day. We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.