 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.  The Progressive English reading books - Page 95de Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 pages
...white foam flew The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas...we did speak only to break The silence of the sea ! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pages
...when he realizes the scene so graphically described in the " Rime of the Ancient Mariner," * — " Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean," — even here the smooth and glittering surface is not at rest ; for long, gentle... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...and the unhappy emigrants from Europe to Australia who survive, may say with the Ancient Mariner, " Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." Then it is that the children and invalids suffer most ; and Mr. Maury truly and forcibly... | |
 | John Marius Wilson - 1859 - 476 pages
...anu copper sl;y, 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...everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, wa(er everywhere. Nor any drop to drink. The very dcep did rot; — how strange, That ever this should... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. " Down dropped the breeze; the sails dropped down ; 'Twas sad as sad could be: And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! " All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun at noon Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 322 pages
...We were the first that ever hurst Into that silent sea. "Down dropped the breeze; the sails dropped down; 'Twas sad as sad could be : And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea ! " All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun at noon Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger... | |
 | Sherard Osborn - 1861 - 396 pages
...description of the horrors they then endured, Drought vividly to my mind the lines of Coleridge : — " Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, — 'Twas...we did speak only to break The silence of the sea ! " All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun at noon Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. "Down dropt the breeze, the aaila dropp'd down, 'Twas sad as sad could be ; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea ! " All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Eight 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. Ami the Water, water, everywhere, Albatross » ' begins to be And all the boards did... | |
 | J. F. Napier Hewett - 1862 - 392 pages
...of the African climate — we experienced the torments attending the phenomenon — a dead calm. " Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas...we did speak, only to break The silence of the sea. All in the hot and copper sky, The bloody sun at noon Eight up above the mast did stand, No bigger... | |
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