 Around, around, flew each sweet sound, Then darted to the Sun; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the skylark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea...  Little Classics - Page 36edited by - 1875Full view - About this book
 | 1866 - 588 pages
...pause in the work at the dawning: the spirits passed away in melody through the mouths of the dead men. Around, around flew each sweet sound, Then darted...sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And now it is an angel's song, That makes... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1868 - 714 pages
...corses came again, But a troop of spirits blest : For when it dawned — they dropped their arms, And clustered round the mast ; Sweet sounds rose slowly...came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-droppirig from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing ; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...they dropped their arms. invocation of ... , . . , the guardian And clustered round the mast ; saint. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And...they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning ! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And now it is an angel's... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - 1988 - 458 pages
...mast; ••ft Music. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies pass'd. Around, around, flew each sweet sound, Then darted...sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seem'd to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 't was like all instruments, Now... | |
 | Nicholas V. Riasanovsky - 1995 - 128 pages
...feel my limbs: I was so light — almost I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. Around, around, flew each sweet sound Then darted...they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song,... | |
 | Susan Eilenberg - 1992 - 302 pages
...cluster'd round the mast: Sweet sounds rose slowly thro' their mouths And from their bodies pass'd. Around, around, flew each sweet sound, Then darted to the sun: Slowly the sounds came back again Now mix'd, now one by one. [339-46] It would be a display of exquisitely acrobatic voice-throwing if the... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 pages
...shall quote it in full and examine it in detail: For when it dawned — they dropped their arms, And clustered round the mast; Sweet sounds rose slowly...they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments. Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song.... | |
 | Michael Macovski - 1994 - 244 pages
..."troop of spirits" is indeed "blest," in that . . . when it dawned — they dropped their arms And clustered round the mast; Sweet sounds rose slowly...sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. (350-57) What the Guest saw as a group of ghosts has been reinterpreted as a host of "sweet" messages,... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...corses came again, But a troop of spirits blest: 350 For when it dawned — they dropped their arms, And clustered round the mast; Sweet sounds rose slowly...bodies passed. Around, around, flew each sweet sound, 355 Then darted to the Sun; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 pages
...hears another music, angelic but natural: "Sometimes a-dropping from the sky / I heard the sky-larks sing; / Sometimes all little birds that are, / How...seemed to fill the sea and air / With their sweet jargoning!" (358-62). Antipodal to the slaying of the albatross, this loving sensitivity to the beauty... | |
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