 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...teach. What loud uproar bursts from that door I The wedding-guests are there ; But in the garden bower h-Cailliaeh wave Their shadows o'er Clan-Alpine's grave, And, answering Lomond's breezes deep. Soo I 0 wedding-guest ! this soul hath been Alone on a wide, wide sea, — So lonely 't was, that God himself... | |
 | 1871 - 378 pages
...speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : To him my tale I teach. And bride-maids singing are: And hark the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me to prayer ! " O sweeter than the marriage-feast, Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...? SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: J1772—1834. From " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." O WEDDING guest! this soul hath been ~ Alone on a wide wide sea : So...'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. 0 sweeter than the marriage feast, "Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - 1988 - 458 pages
...of girls singing. But in the garden-bower the bride And bride-maids singing are; Bell from the kirk. And hark the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me...soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. O sweeter than the marriage-feast, T is sweeter... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: 590 To him my tale I teach. What loud uproar bursts from that door!...garden-bower the bride And bride-maids singing are: 595 And hark the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me to prayer! O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 pages
...shattered by suffering of a sort not unknown to Coleridge: the agony of an isolated and outcast soul, Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be (lines 631-33), and subjected to primordial forces so beyond his control as to cast doubt not only... | |
 | Jim Moore - 1996 - 230 pages
...feet straight down below the surface. A line from the "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" came to mind: "Alone on a wide wide sea, so lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be." Samoa seemed a long way off. We rigged a cockpit awning and tried not to fight the problem. Motoring... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - 1997 - 128 pages
...creation around us with fresh eyes. And at times we can feel isolated in creation. As Coleridge wrote: Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.1 In times of trouble and loneliness, have we not all drawn comfort from singing hymns and saying... | |
 | Alex Cheung - 1999 - 348 pages
...There may be many that have lately been saying of themselves, with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, . . . this soul hath been Alone on a wide, wide sea, So...'twas that God Himself Scarce seemed there to be. But I hope I have given good reason why they should now decide, again with the Mariner, To walk together... | |
 | David Adam - 1999 - 268 pages
...an exile endured a winter on the icy sea.46 Then again those lines from the 'Ancient Mariner': . . . this soul hath been Alone on a wide, wide sea; So...'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. Certainly the Psalmist was right: Nisi Dominusfrustra. Without the Lord all frustrates. It is as if... | |
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I pass, like night, from land to land; 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. 
