 | Kevin T. Pickering, Lewis A. Owen - Science - 1997 - 584 pages
...everywhere Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot; О Christ! That ever this should be! Tea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea....About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced all night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. Samuel Taylor Coleridge,... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
...behind him' (The White Seal, The Jungle Book, 1 894). Compare Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner 1 2.8—30: The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. 15, 17 name . . . teeth of flame: Wilde rhymes 'teeth of flame' with 'name', The Ballad of Reading... | |
 | Robert Kunzig - Nature - 1999 - 360 pages
...concealed in the deep that we are best acquainted. — PLINY THE ELDER, quoted in the Challenger Report The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. — SAMUEL COLERIDGE, quoted in the Challenger Report On the floor of the deep sea, the cold and lightless,... | |
 | Robert Edward Lee - Science - 1999 - 634 pages
...the cell that has evolved to enable survival of A. tamarensisin deep coastal waters. Bioluminescence About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced...like a witch's oils Burnt green, and blue, and white Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Mariners from early times have marveled at... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathoms deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow . learned Jew, Josephus, and thePlatonic... | |
 | J. Mann - Pharmacology - 2000 - 268 pages
...Ancient Mariner, it is easy to imagine that opium played some part in the creation of this unusual poem: Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy...like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. The literati were certainly not the only well-known users of opium and other hard drugs as the following... | |
 | Owen J. Flanagan - Medical - 2000 - 228 pages
...poem, many days have passed in which there is: "Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink" and "The very deep did rot: O Christ! / That ever this...things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea." Then Part V begins this way: 'O sleep! it is a gende thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen... | |
 | Deryck Scarr - Islands of the Pacific - 2001 - 376 pages
...phosphorescent sea below the Line that struck her company as putrid.3 Hence the poet's The very deep did rot: 0 Christ! That ever this should be! Yea slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea All this, while Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 2002 - 92 pages
...water, every where Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: 0 Christ! That ever this should be! Is, Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy...death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, s,o Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 2002 - 92 pages
...water, every where Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Girisi! That ever this should be! uj Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy...death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, 130 Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of... | |
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Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. 
