 | Andrew Graham-Dixon - Architecture - 1999 - 344 pages
...effects may recall, too, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's descriptions of watersnakes, in The Ancient Mariner. 'They moved in tracks of shining white, / And when...reared, the elfish light / Fell off in hoary flakes . . . They coiled and swam; and every track /Was a flash of golden fire.'"' The climactic work in Tintoretto's... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 380 pages
...lifted at the epiphanic moment when, unexpectedly, the mariner beholds the water snakes as beautiful — "They moved in tracks of shining white, / And when...reared, / the elfish light / Fell off in hoary flakes" — and "I blessed them unaware." This is an even more striking turn than the equivalent point near... | |
 | Rod Preece - Nature - 2002 - 436 pages
...beholdeth Beyond the shadow of the ship, God's creatures of the great calm I watched the water snakes; They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they...swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Their beauty and their happiness O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...Compare Shelley's description of these "parasites" with Coleridge's description of the water-snakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. (CPW, i: 11. 277-81) 65. Wordsworth writes of how The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 2002 - 260 pages
...Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, 310 And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in...rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, 315 They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. O happy living things! no tongue... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 2002 - 92 pages
...Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, 27$ And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in...watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and vdvet black, 280 They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Their beauty and... | |
 | Elvira Hernández - 2002 - 72 pages
...satinado, terciopelo negro se retorcían y nadaban; y cada estela era un relámpago de fuego y de oro. Within the shadow of the ship / I watched their rich...green, and velvet black, / They coiled and swam; and very track / Was a flash of golden fire (SAMUEL TAYLOR C.) Entre el Hotel Bristol y el Hotel Lancaster... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 2002 - 92 pages
...water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, n3 And when they reared, the elfish light Peli off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship...rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, 280 They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Their beauty and theìr happiness.... | |
 | John Salinsky - Diseases in literature - 2002 - 252 pages
...first years). Then, miraculously, he's watching beautiful water snakes, rather than 'slimy things': Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled...swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Oh happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 78 pages
...Moon, he Beyond the shadow of the ship, beholdeth God's creatures of the j watched the water -snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they...swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Their beauty and their happiness. O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring... | |
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Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet... 
