 Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung...  All the Year Round - Page 401890Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...growl'd, and roar'd and howl'd— A wild and ceaseless sound. At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's name. The Mariners gave it biscuit-worms, And round and round it flew : The Ice... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...growl'd, and roar'd and howl'd— A wild and ceaseless sound. At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's name. The Mariners gave it biscuit-worms, And round and round it flew : The Ice... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...growl'd, and roar'd and howl'dA wild and ceaseless sound. At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's name. The Mariners gave it biscuit-worms, And round and round it flew : The Ice... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...growled, and roared and howled, A wild and ceaseless sound. At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian Soul, We hailed it in God's name. The Mariners gave it biscuit-worms, And round and round it flew : The Ice did split with a Thunder-fit... | |
 | 1828 - 514 pages
...Mariner : what a picture of desolation, relieved by a gleam of hope, is in this verse !— I 112 113 " At length did cross an albatross, Through the fog...been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name." How vivid the following : — " The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...snow-fog, and was received with great joy and hospitality. At length did cross an Albatross : Thorough the fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play,... | |
 | 1820 - 784 pages
...growled, and roared and howl'd, Like noises in a swound ! At length did cross an Albatross : Thorough the fog it came ; . . As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit... | |
 | England - 1820 - 756 pages
...growled, and roared and howl'd, Like noises in a swound ! At length did cross an Albatross : Thorough the fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in<God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it Hew. The ice did split with... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...growled, and roar'd and howl'd, Like noises in a swound ! At length did cross an Albatross : Thorough the fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit... | |
 | Periodicals - 1825 - 500 pages
...growled and roared and howled, LiUe noises in a swound ! •- At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. .. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew ; The ice did split with a tbunder-fit... | |
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