 How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky. At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist ! And still...  The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge - Page 8by Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 712 pages
...little speck, And then it seemed a mist ; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist ! And still it neared...throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could not laugh nor wail ; Through utter drought all dumb we stood ! I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...little speck, And then it seemed a mist ; It moved, and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape I wist, And still it neared...unslaked, with black lips baked, *,'.'".""" We could not laugh nor wail ; Lr°mehth" Through utter drought all dumb we stood ; .h^'.ndHi I bit my arm, I... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...And still it near'd and near'd : As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plung'd, and tack'd, and veer'd. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could...Through utter drought all dumb we stood; I bit my arm, I suck'd the blood, And cried, A sail ! a sail ! With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...little speck, And then it seemed a mist ; It moved and moved, and took at hist A certain shape I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist ! And still it neared and neared ; As if it dodged a water sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...little speck. And then it seemed a mist ; It moved, and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape I wist, And still it neared...throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could not laugh nor wail ; Through utter drought all dumb we stood ; I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...little speck, And then it seemed a mist ; It moved, and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape I wist, And still it neared...throats unslaked, with black lips baked, --'""" We could not laugh nor wail ; £7S.V Through utter drought all dumb we stood ; ^."JSi I bit my arm, I sucked... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 478 pages
...a water-sprite, It plunged, and tacked, and veered. With throat unslaked, with black lips baked, i We could nor laugh nor wail, Through utter drought all dumb we stood JTjllJjit my arm and sucked the blood, And cried, ' a sail ! a sail !' With throat unslaked, with black... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist ! And still it neared and neared ; As if it dodged a water sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Wo could nor laugh nor wail ; Through utter drought all dumb we stood ! I bit my arm, I sucked the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 432 pages
...little speck, And then it seemed a mist; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist ! And still it neared...and tacked and veered. With throats unslaked, with hlack lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail ; Through utter drought all dumb we stood ! I bit my... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 126 pages
...speck, And then it seemed a mist ; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. " A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist ! And still it neared...a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. At us nearer ap- "With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, proach, it seem- ,,,,,,, .. ethhimtobea... | |
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