...surroundings and scenery of the tale, and the best of his illustrations is of the exquisite lines, — " The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide ; Softly she was going up, With a star or two beside." So, too, he gives us a glimpse of the jocund cheer of the wedding, and...

...a curse in a dead man's eve I Seven days, seven nights, I taw that curse. And yet I could uot die. 'The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was goiii}; up. And a star or two heaide. 1 Her beams bemockcd the sultry main, Like April hoarfrost spraid...

...be, beside the complete and inexhaustible loveliness of The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside — or the splendid fantasy of And the woodland haunter Shall not cease to saunter When, far down some...

...most simple and beautiful passages of English poetry. 'The moving Moon went up the sky And no where did abide: Softly she was going up. And a star or two beside -'16 He sees anew the water-snakes, 'the thousand, thousand slimy things'. He 'watches' their beauty...

...seven nights, I saw that curse" (line 261, p. 197); "The moving Moon went up the sky, / And no where did abide; / Softly she was going up. / And a star or two beside — " (lines 263—66, p. 197); "For when it dawned — they dropped their arms" (line 350, p. 200);...

...lies over the bulwark and stares at the Moon. MARINER '['he moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside — He turns with a groan of pain over on his stomach and stares at the water. Beyond the shadow of the ship,...

...broken by that extraordinarily lovely ascending movement: The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up And a star or two beside. (lines 255-58) The feverous Mariner is tormented yet static, the cooling moon serene yet mobile. Her...

...nights, I saw that curse, And vet I could not die. 260 The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside — In his loneliness and fixedness he yeameth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still...

...subsided. The poet who wrote a perfect quatrain like The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside . . . was also guilty of: She felt them coming, but no power Had she the words to smother; And with...

...sublime surrogate moon to the patristic, theistic sun: The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside— (263-67) As the gloss wonderfully puts it, "In his loneliness and fixedness [the Mariner] yearneth...