 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...  The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge - Page 4by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales) - 1874 - 582 pages
...noises in a swound. At length did cross an albatross, Thorough the fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had ate, And round and round it flew, The ice did split with a thunder-fit ; The helmsman steered us through... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...noises in a swouud ! " At length did cross an Albatross. Thorough the fog it came ; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. " It...follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo ! " In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine ; Whiles all the... | |
 | Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker - 1984 - 232 pages
...mariner's superstitious fancy which turns the bird into an image of salvation is suggested by the lines, 'And every day, for food or play,/ Came to the mariner's hollo!' (11. 73-74; italics mine). This promise of light is literally fed by the mariner and it comes at his... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - 1988 - 458 pages
...their pockets and offer it to the albatross. The bread is in wafers like Communion wafers. MARINER It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round...The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steer'd us through The sailors sing a hymn to a sort of chanty rhythm, pulling on the ropes, swaying... | |
 | Bernard Smith - 1992 - 290 pages
...every day for food and play' and 'It perched for vespers none.' Immediately following upon the lines: The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! [Plate 148] we have the line: And a good south wind sprung up behind. Such a wind in the region of... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pages
...Like noises in a swound! At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate...play, Came to the mariner's hollo! In mist or cloud, or mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine; Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered... | |
 | Sheila Hales - 1994 - 160 pages
...Like noises in a swound! At length did cross an Albatross: Through the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate...follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo! In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine; Whiles all the night,... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...noises in as wound! At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came; 65 As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate...round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; 70 The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow,... | |
 | Wendy Wren - 2000 - 163 pages
...cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came: As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in Cod's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round...follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo! In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine; Whiles all the night,... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 pages
...proveth a bird of good omen and followeth the ship as it returned northward through fog and floating ice. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round...follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' hollo! In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine; Whiles all the night,... | |
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