...clement. That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, 315 To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro,...roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; 320 And the rain poured down from one black cloud; The Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud...

...died in sleep, / And was a blessed ghost. / . . . / And the coming wind did roar more loud / . . . / And the rain poured down from one black cloud; / The moon was at its edge . . ." and these (beginning with line 108) from Millay's poem: "The pitying rain began to fall; I ......

...sails, That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, 3 5° To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro,...roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; 355 And the rain poured down from one black cloudj The Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud...

...alto aba vita! E cento stendardi di fuoco impavesarono it cieto, avanti e indietro precipitosamcnte! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced...roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; 320 And the rain poured down from one black cloud; The Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud...

...alto alla vita! E cento stendardi di fuoco impavesarono il cielo, avanti e indietro precipitosamente! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced...roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; 320 And the rain poured down from one black cloud; The Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud...

...roaring wind: It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere.14 The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags...down from one black cloud; The Moon was at its edge. By grace of the holy Mother, the Ancient Mariner is refreshed with He heareth sounds and seeth strange...

...wind appear with an abundance that is splendidly described in the richness of the poetry in Part V: The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags...fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. Yet, it is still a night-time world, of sleep, and the Virgin Queen of Heaven, and of the moon —...

...having witnessed the Leonid meteor shower of 1797, these lines of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "The upper air burst into life! / And a hundred fire-flags...fro, and in and out, / The wan stars danced between. . . ." 4. Thomas Jefferson, letter to David Salmon, February 15, 1808, quoted in Bedini, Thomas Jefferson,...

...conditions would understand." CHAPTER 1X The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, o To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. nysically and emotionally exhausted, Magellan climbed partway to the crow's nest to see the prospect...

...left, Out of the sea came he!" "The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark." "The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags...fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between." (CPW, 1:187, 195, 199)39 The problematic status of such perceptions and, even more, of the phantom...