 | 1849 - 442 pages
...summons ; and in his repose such as the " ancient mariner" related to his spell-bound listener : " Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath, nor motion; At idle as a painted ship, Upon a painted ocean." Other scenes are familiar to the " sons of the deep... | |
 | Fanny Parkes Parlby - Hinduism - 1850 - 654 pages
...one day during the calm we made seven knots in the twentyfour hours, and those all the wrong way ! " Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." Our voyage advanced very slowly, and the supply of fresh NICOBAR. 13 water becoming... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...only to break The silenee of the sea I All in a hot and eopper sky, The bloody Snn, at noon, Right np above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stnek, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted oeean. Water, water, every... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...As green as emerald;" and anon of tropic regions, where, " All in a hot and copper sky, The burning sun at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon ;" turning the stagnant waters of ocean into snakes, " blue, glossy green, and velvet black," which... | |
 | Daniel B. Woods - Business - 1851 - 224 pages
...was passed in vexatious calms. We were such a picture as Coleridge had in his mind when he wrote, " Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion, As idly as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." • June 25th, 1849, we reached San Francisco, seventy-four... | |
 | 1852 - 702 pages
...Mariner to have experienced one during his ghostly voyage, he so accurately describes their aspect — All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No biggor than the moon. The sirocco of that country always blows from the north-west. At Sydney, its... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - Hunting - 1852 - 622 pages
...remembered — /' Down dropt the breeze, the safe dropt down, 'Twos sad as sad could be." And then : " All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody sun, at noon," &o. &c. I verily shuddered as I felt the hot stagnation settle upon my forehead and my lungs. I looked... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pages
...free ; "We were 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...above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted oc^ean. Water, water, everywhere,. And all the hoards did... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...free ; "Wo were 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...above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Xх Day after day, day after day, Wo stuck, nor breath nor motion ; Лв idle as a painted ship ^ Upon... | |
 | James F. Bowman - 1853 - 408 pages
...CHAPTER VI. THE CALM. THE SECOND WATCH — AN EVIL OMEN — THE WHITE SHARK — A BREAKFAST LOST. " All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun at noon...above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon." DURING the remainder of the day the wind continued fair, and we held on our course, steering by the... | |
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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. 
