 | William Wordsworth - 1880 - 90 pages
...Cf. the Greek proverb, "Whom the gods love die young." 501 Whose hearts are dry as summer dust. *' But or ever a prayer had gushed, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " — COLERIDGE, Ancient Mar. 502 Burn to the socket. " I still had hopes my latest hours to crown,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 pages
...The many men BO beautiful ! ' And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on, and so did I. * I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes awny ; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. I 1 looked to heaven, and tried... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881 - 592 pages
...The many men, so beautiful ! And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. " I looked upon the rotting sea,...heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wIcked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " I closed my lids, and kept them elose,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 pages
...looked upon the rotting sea. eththat they should . -, -, live, and so And drew my eyes away ; many lie I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead...heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...men, so beautiful! Aud they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; aud the lock, And thy strong power Bend. More enemies...hairs upou ray head ; Let them not me deprave, Bat lav. 1 For the lust two lines of this stanza I nm indebted to MrWordsworth. It was on a delightful... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1882 - 376 pages
...The many men, so beautiful ! And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. " I looked upon the rotting sea,...heaven, and tried to pray But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " The moving Moon went up the sky,... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 692 pages
...mint U4* |>ity on 4) *'ul in nuny mon. M« beautiful • «boj »uj, л| did j^ . им ; and *> a^j I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away...heaven, and tried to pray But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close,... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...245 The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. I looked upon the rotting sea, And...heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, But the ancient Mariner assureth him of his bodily life, and proceedeth to relate his horrible... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. And envieth that they should live, and so many lie dead. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away;...looked upon the rotting deck. And there the dead men lav. 240 I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came,... | |
 | Gerard Mackrell - 1996 - 88 pages
...sailor, who has been the unwitting cause of the deaths of the crew, is denied even the power to pray. I looked to Heaven and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, IV,... | |
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I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky. 
