 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...silent sea. fti the Lino. The ship hath been •uddenly becalmed Down dropt the breeze, the sails drop! down, 'Twas sad as sad could be ; And we did speak...Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And the Albatross begins to be And all the boards did shrink ; fcvenged. Water, water, everywhere, Nor... | |
 | Edwin Clark - Argentina - 1878 - 374 pages
...metaphor, in describing this lifeless scene : — " Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down : 'Twos sad as sad could be ; And we did speak only to break...breath nor motion, As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." The explanation of this singular phenomenon offers however no difficulty, though... | |
 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
...burst Into that silent sea. But soon the wind drops, and the first part of the curse manifests itself: All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...ocean. Water, 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... | |
 | Frances Luttikhuizen - 1997 - 192 pages
...first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down, 'Twos sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break...ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere. But not a drop to drink.... 'r'<*SS*s?'jf1*^ ''• ' 8.4.1. Critical... | |
 | William Galvani - Reference - 1999 - 236 pages
...1726 ...nothing in nature is so disagreeable as hard weather at sea... ADMIRAL GEORGE RODNEY, ca. 1760 All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE from the poem 'The... | |
 | John Salinsky - Diseases in literature - 2002 - 252 pages
...continues to fly north, and it gets warmer. But the trouble is, it carries on getting warmer, and warmer: All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody sun at noon,...ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. What a use of words. The long 'o's in hot,... | |
 | C. L. Brantley, Cynthia Johnson - Creative writing - 2002 - 319 pages
...example from Samuel Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," each stanza is made up of four lines. All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...ocean. Water, 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... | |
 | Michael B. McElroy - Nature - 2002 - 364 pages
...Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) described the region graphically in his "Rime of the Ancient Mariner": All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. This... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. 100 211 110 Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only...ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, 120 And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 444 pages
..."hope"; and as the mythical poems reveal, Coleridge's imagination provided him with little relief. All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. — From... | |
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Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion;... 
