The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, Volume 2W. Pickering, 1835 - 331 pages |
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... Father bends , Old men , and babes , and loving friends , And youths and maidens gay ! Farewell , farewell ! but this I tell To thee , thou wedding - guest ! He prayeth well , who loveth well Both man and bird and beast . He prayeth ...
... Father bends , Old men , and babes , and loving friends , And youths and maidens gay ! Farewell , farewell ! but this I tell To thee , thou wedding - guest ! He prayeth well , who loveth well Both man and bird and beast . He prayeth ...
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... father loves so well , What makes her in the wood so late , A furlong from the castle gate ? She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight ; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away ...
... father loves so well , What makes her in the wood so late , A furlong from the castle gate ? She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight ; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away ...
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... father's hall . She rose and forth with steps they passed That strove to be , and were not , fast . Her gracious stars the lady blest , And thus spake on sweet Christabel : All our household are at rest , The hall as silent as the cell ...
... father's hall . She rose and forth with steps they passed That strove to be , and were not , fast . Her gracious stars the lady blest , And thus spake on sweet Christabel : All our household are at rest , The hall as silent as the cell ...
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... father seldom sleepeth well . Sweet Christabel her feet doth bare , And , jealous of the listening air , They steal their way from stair to stair , Now in glimmer , and now in gloom , And now they pass the baron's room , As still as ...
... father seldom sleepeth well . Sweet Christabel her feet doth bare , And , jealous of the listening air , They steal their way from stair to stair , Now in glimmer , and now in gloom , And now they pass the baron's room , As still as ...
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... father's name , Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale , Murmuring o'er the name again , Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ...
... father's name , Why waxed Sir Leoline so pale , Murmuring o'er the name again , Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine ? Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ...
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Page 44 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 4 - We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Page 3 - Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — " The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Page 16 - twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song That makes the heavens be mute. " It ceased"; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 11 - I fear thee, ancient Mariner ! I fear thy skinny hand ! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. " I fear thee, and thy glittering eye, And thy skinny hand, so brown.
Page 26 - I have strange power of speech ; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : To him my tale I teach.
Page 10 - We listened and looked sideways up! Fear at my heart, as at a cup, My life-blood seemed to sip! The stars were dim, and thick the night, The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white; From the sails the dew did drip — Till clomb above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip.
Page 12 - 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 eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.
Page 5 - The Sun now rose upon the right Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. And the good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day, for food or play, Came to the mariners...
Page 7 - There passed a weary time. Each throat was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye, when looking westward, 1 beheld a something in the sky.