 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 416 pages
...luck. Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist : Then all averr'd, I had kill'd the bird That brought the fog and mist. 'Twas right,...fair breeze blew,* the white foam flew, The furrow stream'd off free ; t We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. * The breezes blew. —... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. DEAD CALM IS THE TROPICS. THE fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow...silent sea. Down dropt the 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... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...to slay, That made the breeze to blow! Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprise Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought...mist. Twas right, said they, such birds to slay, That brought the fog and mist. (lines 91-102) And the Gloss seems merely to scorn the sailors' confusions:... | |
 | Mary Francis Slattery - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 144 pages
...and suggestive, and in that particular feature it can be said to be natural rather than conventional. The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, The furrow...free. We were the first That ever burst Into that silent sea. The stanza from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner denotes the ship moving swiftly... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...trouble making up his mind about the second line in this stanza of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, / The...free; / We were the first that ever burst / Into that silent sea." Having made a multitude of other changes between the 1798 and 1800 Lyrical Ballads, he... | |
 | David Alan Black - Bible - 1992 - 160 pages
...Ancient Mariner," note the intertwining of several alliterative sequences involving / b, w, and s: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow...free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. This heavy use of alliteration imparts great intensity to the lines, in keeping with the... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...The ship hath been suddenly becalmed. Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought...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! 100 110 All... | |
 | George Winokur, Ming T. Tsuang - Medical - 1996 - 396 pages
...1959). What the Future Held 30- to 40-Year Course and Outcome in Patients According to Final Diagnosis "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow...free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea . . ." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" T; A he Iowa 500 was... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...northward, even till it reaches the Line Nor dim nor red, like God's own head The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought...free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.. The ship hath been suddenly becalmed. And the Albatross begins to be avenged. A Spirit... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...like thy thoughts in me. Coleridge, in The Ancient Mariner half a century earlier, was more literal: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow...free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. porpur: purple. Possibly from a Semitic source, purple; in heraldry purpure, purpurea!,... | |
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Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist. 
