 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...dry as dust. ' I closed my lids, and kept them close. And the bills Ilk > pulses beat ; For the skv and the sea, and the sea and the sky, Lay like a load...reek did they ; The look with which they looked on me Bad never passed away. ' An orphan's cursa would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1880 - 738 pages
...made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat ; [the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the...Nor rot nor reek did they; The look with which they look'd on me llad never pass'd away. An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on high ; But,... | |
 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
...And there the dead men lay. . . . I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the...on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. The Mariner remains in this despei'ate state for seven days and nights. Then comes a change: The moving... | |
 | Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker - Poetry - 1984 - 232 pages
...fact that he had noticed that their bodies did not decay and their eyes continued to watch him — 'The cold sweat melted from their limbs,/ Nor rot...with which they looked on me/ Had never passed away' (11. 253-256) — the mariner does not draw the obvious conclusion that the men did not "really" die.... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - Drama - 1988 - 458 pages
...brain caused by the heat. MARINER I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the...load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. He reels about half-mad, in terror of the dead. An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 pages
...My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; 250 For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay...at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, But the curse liveth Nor rot nor reek did they: for him in the eye of 255 The look with which they... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...and made Mv heart as drv as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the...like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at mv feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did thev: But the curse liveth for... | |
 | Mervyn Nicholson - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 284 pages
...inside out, into its terrible opposite: I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the...on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. The Mariner may close his eyes, but he cannot shut out the horror: The cold sweat melted from their limbs,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 2002 - 260 pages
...My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; 285 For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay...melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they: 29° The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell... | |
 | Nigel Fabb - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 244 pages
...an unfooted syllable between feet. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the halls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the...on my weary eye, and the dead were at my feet. The first line can be scanned as strict iambic tetrameter or as loose iambic tetrameter. The third and... | |
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A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. 
