 Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot; O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea! About, about, in reel and rout, The death-fires danced at night: The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and...  The Cowper Anthology: 1775-1800 A. D. - Page 245edited by - 1901 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798 - 240 pages
...things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. About, about, in red and rout The Death-fires danc'd at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green...assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so : Nine fathom deep he had follow'd us From the Land of Mist and Snow. And every tongue thro' ntter drouth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. About, about, in reel and rout The Death-fires danc'd at .night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt...assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so : Nine fathom deep he had follow'd us From the Land of Mist and Snow. And every tongue thro' utter drouth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. About, about, in reel and rout The Death-fires danc'd at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green...assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so : Nine fathom deep he had follow'd us From the Land of Mist and Snow. And every tongue thro' utter drouth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...with leg* 4 Upon the slimy sea. . . . i * About, about, in reel and rout, ' The death-fires danc'd at night; ' The water, like a witch's oils, ' Burnt...assured were ' Of the Spirit that plagued us so: ' Nine fathom deep he had followed us ' From the land of mist and snow. *• And every tongue thro' utter... | |
 | 1804 - 994 pages
...a flash of golden fire." Lyrical Ballads, i. 164. " About, about, in reel and rout The death fires danced at night, The water like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white." Ibid. 154. " Oh, sov'ieign Nature ! thou whose sacred sway Softens the rugged heart ; by thee beguil'd... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 pages
...Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. 154• About, about, in reel and rout The Death-fires danced...assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so : Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the Land of Mist and Snow. And every tongue through utter drouth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. *2 About, about, in reel and tout The Death-fires danced at night; The water, like a...assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so : Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the Land of Mist and Snow. And every tongue through utter drouth... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced...assured were Of the spirit that plagued us so : Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought,... | |
 | 1820 - 774 pages
...rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced...a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About... | |
 | 1834 - 918 pages
...in reel and rout The death- tin's danced at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, aud blue, and white. " And some in dreams assured were Of the spirit that plagued us so ; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. " And every tongue, through utter drought,... | |
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