 | Adam Lind Simpson - Biography - 1861 - 464 pages
...the ancient mariner was fully realized: — " Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt (Io\vn, Twas sud as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea ! All in a hot and cop; er sky, 'I he bloody sun at noon, Might up above the mast did stanU No bigger than the moon. Day... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...neither departed souls nor angels: conceerning whom the Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down. 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak...copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mist did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion;... | |
 | Ashley Montagu - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 388 pages
..."The Ancient Mariner" presented the boys with a challenge they never failed to take up. The verse was All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun at noon...above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. The boys used to emphasize the adjective in the second line, "but that is perhaps natural," remarks... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 2002 - 260 pages
...free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. no Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak...The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, 115 The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 2002 - 260 pages
...We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. 1 10 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 seal All in a hot and copper sky, 115 The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 2002 - 92 pages
...Into that silent sea. The ship hath been suddenly becalmed. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break no The silence of the sea! AH in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 2002 - 92 pages
...Into that silent sea. The ship bath been suddenly becalmed. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, ‘Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break iso The silence ot the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the... | |
 | Thomas Carper, Derek Attridge - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 184 pages
...join the angelic strain. 5. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1 798 )' All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...bigger than the Moon. Day after day; day after day, 5 We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every... | |
 | Barry Spurr, Lloyd Cameron - English literature - 2000 - 332 pages
...on the mariner and his shipmates as the world of ice and snow is replaced by that of searing heat: All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. This realistic and vividly visual image is also symbolic, as the sun is representative of God, but... | |
 | Tony Horwitz - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 500 pages
...white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion: As idle as a painted ship, Upon a painted ocean. It was my turn to read. I'd brought excerpts from English diaries in which Cook's... | |
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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. 
