 | English literature - 1829 - 558 pages
...blast, The southward aye we fled.' — ii. p. 5. ' Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twos 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 426 pages
...the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be ; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea ! Bat when the fog cleared off, they justify the same, and thus make themselves accomplices in the... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...line, when the ship became suddenly becalmed. " Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, '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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry, Modern - 1836 - 170 pages
...the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down4, '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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1836 - 496 pages
...followed free : We were the first that ever burst Down drop'd the breeze, the sails drop'd down. '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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 358 pages
...Down (Iropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, been sudden- ,,„ . , ... ly becalmed. 1 was sad us 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... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...sails northward, even till it reaches the Line. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be ; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea ! The ship hath been suddenly becalmed. All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1838 - 492 pages
...followed free : We were the first that ever burst Down drop'd the breeze, the sails drop'd down. '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... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...endeavors not to believe it. THE CALM AT SEA.— COLERIDGE. Down droptthe breeze, the sails dropt down, 'T was 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, T being Do I allow — and to the vehement And striving spirit ! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon. Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger... | |
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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; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. 
