The Ancient MarinerD.C. Heath & Company, 1897 - 59 pages |
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... ! it was a joy The dead men could not blast . I saw a third- I heard his voice : It is the Hermit good ! He singeth loud his godly hymns 510 That he makes in the wood . He'll shrieve my THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER . 21.
... ! it was a joy The dead men could not blast . I saw a third- I heard his voice : It is the Hermit good ! He singeth loud his godly hymns 510 That he makes in the wood . He'll shrieve my THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER . 21.
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... Hermit of 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 , He hath a cushion plump ...
... Hermit of 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 , He hath a cushion plump ...
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... Hermit cheerily . The boat came closer to the ship , But I nor spake nor stirred ; The boat came close beneath the ship , And straight a sound was heard . Under the water it rumbled on , Still louder and more dread : It reached the ship ...
... Hermit cheerily . The boat came closer to the ship , But I nor spake nor stirred ; The boat came close beneath the ship , And straight a sound was heard . Under the water it rumbled on , Still louder and more dread : It reached the ship ...
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... Hermit raised his eyes , And prayed where he did sit . I took the oars : the Pilot's boy , Who now doth crazy go , 560 565 Laughed loud and long , and all the while His eyes went to and fro . ' Ha , ha ! ' quoth he , ' full plain I see ...
... Hermit raised his eyes , And prayed where he did sit . I took the oars : the Pilot's boy , Who now doth crazy go , 560 565 Laughed loud and long , and all the while His eyes went to and fro . ' Ha , ha ! ' quoth he , ' full plain I see ...
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... Hermit good ! He fingeth loud his godly hymns That he makes in the wood . He'll shrieve my soul , he'll wash away The Albatross's blood . VII . This Hermit good lives in that wood Which 26.
... Hermit good ! He fingeth loud his godly hymns That he makes in the wood . He'll shrieve my soul , he'll wash away The Albatross's blood . VII . This Hermit good lives in that wood Which 26.
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agony Albatross Alfoxden Ancient Mariner Ancyent Marinere beautiful bird black lips blew boat bright Bristol brook Christ's Hospital Christabel cloud Coleridge 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 moonlight mov'd moved nature Nether Stowey night noon o'er Ocean poem poetry poets pray Quantock Hills quoth ribs 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 10 - We listened and looked sideways up! Fear at my heart, as at a cup, My life-blood seemed to sip! The stars were dim, and thick the night, The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white; From the sails the dew did drip— Till clomb above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip.
Page 12 - O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
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 21 - 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 3 - The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she; Nodding their heads before her goes The merry minstrelsy. The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Page 17 - 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 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.