 The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's...  The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge - Page 12by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1876 - 564 pages
...the dead were at my feet. "The cold sweat melted from their limbs — Nor rot nor reek did they ; The look with which they looked on me Had never passed...curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But O ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 246 pages
...cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they looked 011 me Had never passed away. " An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from 011 high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights,... | |
 | Florence Burckett - 1875 - 476 pages
...drag to bell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more terrible than that It the curse in a dead man'* eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die '." What a wonderful creation of the brain is portrayed in this, — Coleridge's Rime ! The picture... | |
 | Robert F. Hobson - 1985 - 340 pages
...guilt-ridden orphan. Coleridge often spoke of himself as having no family - as being a spiritual orphan. 'An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from...seven nights, I saw that curse. And yet I could not die.'14 When I was very young - about five I suppose - I had a dread of pennies. My mother had once... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - 1988 - 458 pages
...load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. He reels about half-mad, in terror of the dead. An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from...nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. In pantomime. He pleads with God for death to end his torture. The Moon rises. Exhausted he lies over... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...nothing Can touch him further. Macbeth, Macbeth William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from...horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet I do not make war against the dead. Homer (8th century... | |
 | Joseph Lewis Henderson, Maud Oakes - 1990 - 324 pages
...reveals rebirth as redemption from a curse in this extract from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. . . . An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But ohi more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye I Seven days, seven nights, I saw that... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 pages
...familiar metaphors ("My heart as dry as dust" [247]) or to analogies that appeal to an orthodox mentality: An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from...horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! (257-60) This is not the way the Mariner projects horror in Part III. In this passage he insists that... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...filmmaker. Discours du Grand Sommeil, "Visile" (1 920; rcpr. in Collected Works, vol. 4, 1947). 12 An orphan's curse would drag to hell, A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that. Is a curse in a dead man's eye! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 11772-1834), English poet, critic. The Rime of... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...rot nor reek did they: for him in the eye of 255 The look with which they looked on me the dead men Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag...spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that 260 Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not... | |
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