 But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. And the coming wind did...  Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women - Page 3191885 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1883 - 586 pages
...mystery and sublimity, limned forth in magical and meteoric tints. What a wild, weird picture is this: 'The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags...lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide.' Consider the still and awful grandeur in these lines : 'Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 388 pages
...between. " And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge ; And the rain pour'd down from one black cloud : The moon was at its edge....fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. " The loud wind never reach'd the ship, Yet now the ship moved on ! Beneath the lightning and the moon The... | |
 | Gems - 1884 - 408 pages
...pray ; And from my neck so free The albatross fell off, and sunk Like lead into the sea. PART T. " 0 sleep ! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to...fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. The load wind never reached the ship, Yet now the ship moved on ! Beneath the lightning and the moon The... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1884 - 56 pages
...on the deck, That had so long remained, I dreamt that they were filled with dew; And when I awoke, it rained. My lips were wet, my throat was cold, My...fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. The loud wind never reached the ship, Yet now the ship moved on ! Beneath the lightning and the Moon The... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1884 - 312 pages
...; SmL a - nd But with its sound it shook the and seeth T . .. . ',h°3sky sails ' element. and the That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into...fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. The loud wind never reached the JJjjj^ ship, of the Yet now the ship moved on ! crew'are Beneath the lightning... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1884 - 310 pages
...mmo a . nd Bu t with its sound it shook the S y sails ' and the That were so thin and sere. element. The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire-flags...fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. The loud wind never reached the ^£ les ship, of the Yet now the ship moved on ! crew S are Beneath the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1884 - 310 pages
...refreshed with rain. He heareth sounds ami seeth strange sights and commotions in the sky and the ele ment And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails...fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. The bodies of The loud wind never reached the ship, tlie ship's yet now the ship moved on ! crew are in-... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Skipsey - 1884 - 304 pages
...refreshed with rain. He heareth sounds and seeth strange sights and commotions in the sky and the ele ment And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails...fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. The bodies of The loud wind never reached the ship, crew are'in Yet DOW tlie sh'V movei1 ou ! spired','... | |
 | John Richard Blakiston - 1884 - 256 pages
...not come anear ; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere. • • • • 9 And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails...lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 374 pages
...Nature have stirred men's minds, and charged their pens with a diction more than usually powerful. "The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire-flags...lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide." 327. As the deepest feelings often lack expression, so true force in writing often chooses language... | |
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