 | Nancy Dean - Education - 2000 - 164 pages
...beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Discuss: 1. These stanzas from "The Rime... | |
 | Anne Primavesi - Nature - 2000 - 222 pages
...corpses of those who have died of thirst, watches the water snakes moving in tracks of shining white: Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich...green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and everv track Was a Hash of golden fire. C) happy living things! No tongue Their beauty might declare:... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
