 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 260 pages
...water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, 125 Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. 130 About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 260 pages
...tropical Pacific, which was so very exotic, continues in all editions to reek of the village churchyard: About, about, in reel and rout, The Death-fires danced...like a witch's oils, Burnt green and blue and white. The OED gives no previous authority for death-fires, a kind of will-of-the-wisp seen over graves, already... | |
 | John Salinsky - 2002 - 252 pages
...the long deadly dreariness of it all. Not only is the ship hellish, but: The very deep did rot: Oh Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea .... And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 pages
...water, everywhere, 120 And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, 130 Burnt green, and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 78 pages
...water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than... | |
 | Hunter S. Thompson - 2003 - 336 pages
...to the hotel in the rain. March 21, 1988 President Bush Will See You Now "The very deep did rot: Oh Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Ihis low-rent nightcrawling fire-sale of... | |
 | Roberto Franzosi - 2004 - 506 pages
...every where, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink. / The very deep did rot: O Christ! / That ever this...a witch's oils, / Burnt green, and blue and white. These beautiful verses are the product of Coleridge's poetic imagination.7 But reality was often ever... | |
 | Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate - 2004 - 396 pages
...known limits, came to be considered evil, the home of unspeakable horror— The very deep did rot: Oh Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. 22 Such terrors applied especially to the seas which were most relevant to any hope of a waterway to... | |
 | William Roetzheim - 2006 - 760 pages
...water, every where, and all the boards did shrink; water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...he had followed us from the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, was withered at the root; we could not speak, no more than... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. And the Albatross begins to be avenged. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should...like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of this planet, neither departed souls... | |
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