The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems published in 1789. Sibylline leaves. Epigrams. AppendixB.M. Pickering, 1877 |
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... arm made mockery of the warrior's ramp ; While timid looks of fury glancing , Domestic treason , crush'd beneath her fatal stamp , Writhed like a wounded dragon in his gore ; Then I reproach'd † my fears that would not flee ; " And soon ...
... arm made mockery of the warrior's ramp ; While timid looks of fury glancing , Domestic treason , crush'd beneath her fatal stamp , Writhed like a wounded dragon in his gore ; Then I reproach'd † my fears that would not flee ; " And soon ...
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... arms As thou would'st fly for very eagerness . ] February , 1798 . FEARS IN SOLITUDE . WRITTEN IN APRIL , 1798 , DURING THE ALARM OF AN INVASION . A GREEN and silent spot amid the hills , A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No ...
... arms As thou would'st fly for very eagerness . ] February , 1798 . FEARS IN SOLITUDE . WRITTEN IN APRIL , 1798 , DURING THE ALARM OF AN INVASION . A GREEN and silent spot amid the hills , A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No ...
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... arm , I suck'd the blood , And cried , A sail ! a sail ! With throats unslaked , with black lips baked , Agape they heard me call : Gramercy ! they for joy did grin , And all at once their breath drew in , As they were drinking all ...
... arm , I suck'd the blood , And cried , A sail ! a sail ! With throats unslaked , with black lips baked , Agape they heard me call : Gramercy ! they for joy did grin , And all at once their breath drew in , As they were drinking all ...
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... arms , And cluster'd round the mast ; Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths , And from their bodies pass'd . * This stanza continues thus in the edition of 1798 : - " And I quaked to think of my own voice How frightful it would ...
... arms , And cluster'd round the mast ; Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths , And from their bodies pass'd . * This stanza continues thus in the edition of 1798 : - " And I quaked to think of my own voice How frightful it would ...
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... arms , They held them straight and tight ; And each right - arm burnt like a torch , A torch that's borne upright . Their stony eyeballs glitter'd on In the red and smoky light . I pray'd and turn'd my head away Forth looking as before ...
... arms , They held them straight and tight ; And each right - arm burnt like a torch , A torch that's borne upright . Their stony eyeballs glitter'd on In the red and smoky light . I pray'd and turn'd my head away Forth looking as before ...
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Page 47 - That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. Till noon we quietly sailed on, Yet never a breeze did breathe: Slowly and smoothly went the ship, Moved onward from beneath.
Page 277 - 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 43 - The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. PART V Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole ! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, That slid into my soul.
Page 48 - Is this the man? By him who died on cross, With his cruel bow he laid full low 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 56 - And fell down in a fit; The holy Hermit raised his eyes, And prayed where he did sit. I took the oars: the Pilot's boy, Who now doth crazy go, Laughed loud and long, and all the while His eyes went to and fro. 'Ha! ha!' quoth he, 'full plain I see, The Devil knows how to row.
Page 28 - The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — " The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Page 218 - Life, and Life's effluence, cloud at once and shower, Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power, Which wedding Nature to us gives in dower, A new Earth and new Heaven...
Page 29 - And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled...
Page 59 - 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.
Page 41 - In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and everywhere the blue sky belongs to them, and Is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there Is a silent Joy at their arrival.