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
| Book - 1875 - 912 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 neurcd: As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked, and veered. With throats unslaked, with... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...and took at last A certain shape, I wist. ' A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist I And still it nearcd The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible...goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. And I have lo j I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried : " A sail ! a sail!" ' With throats unslaked, with black... | |
| 1876 - 1000 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 neared ; And as if it dodged a water-sprite. It plunged, and tacked, and veered. With throat unslaked, with... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...black eth*h^m'to>b.™a ''PS b^6"^ •hip; and at a We could nor laugh nor wail; free'h'to'ip'eech pense serener light, And milder moons imparadise the nigh suck'd the blood, And cried, A sail ! a sail ! With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 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...a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. At its nearer flpWith throats unslaked, with black lipsUJh'hJm'to'bTai" sh'P - and at a dcar ransom... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1877 - 408 pages
...And still it near'd and near'd : And as if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tack'd and veeiM. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could...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... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 pages
...And still it near'd and near'd : As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tack'd and veer'd. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 416 pages
...still it near'd and near'd : And as if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tack'd and veer'd. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could...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... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 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...arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail ! a sail ! bond» of LUIrat With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call ; Gramercy... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 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...a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. At its nearer With throats unslaked, with black lips approach, it seemeth baked, him to be a -„ '... | |
| |