 | Cecil Victor Deane - History - 1967 - 166 pages
...appropriately absent. The conventional language attains a certain splendour in the familiar passage: Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the Zephyr blows While...goes Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Coleridge took exception to the concluding line on the grounds that it depended 'wholly on the compositors... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! 3 to the imitation in the bard; Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While...realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, YOUTH at the prow and PLEASURE at the helm, Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim... | |
 | Leonard Robinson - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 527 pages
...and soft the Zephyr blows, (While proudly riding o'er the azure realm) (In gallant trim the golden vessel goes;) Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the...whirlwind's sway,) That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey. The Bard, written in 1757, was said by Gray "to be founded on a tradition current in... | |
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Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects... 
