 All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.  Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems - Page 10by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...No bigger than the moon. Day after day, day after day, We struck, nor breath nor motion, As idle at a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where. And all the boards did thrink ; Water, water, every where. Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ I That ever... | |
 | 1842 - 982 pages
...adverse, or as though a dead calm had occurred like that in the Ancient Mariner : — " Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion, As idle as a painted ihip, Upon a painted ocean." The voyage in short, is at end, when we have come within sight of Chrysostom,... | |
 | 1825 - 500 pages
...and copper sky The bloody sun, at noon Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. " Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, And not a drop to drink !" " To our feeling,'" says the Reviewer seriously, "this poem is by far the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1828 - 386 pages
...The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, ' No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. And the Ai- Water, water, every where, batross begins ' ' J > to be avenged. And all... | |
 | 1828 - 514 pages
...bloody sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No b ''>i'-r than the moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." Then how exquisite the way in which the charm begins to break ! — " Beyond the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 426 pages
...The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As...Upon a painted ocean. Water, water« every where, avenged. And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very... | |
 | 1829 - 558 pages
...The bloody sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. ' Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion, As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.' — ii. 9. The supernatural Agents are finely-imagined and delineated. The first... | |
 | 1860 - 740 pages
...the net being towed. In 0° 47' S.; 86° 35' E. ; temperature of surface, 81°,— " l)ay after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion, As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." and the net brought us in such myriads of shells that they afforded unceasing interest... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 pages
...land. More perished by thirst than had fallen cither by war or disease during the whole expedition. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did...Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. THE ANcIENT MARINER. At length a change of wind enabled the survivors to land in Bautrybay, on the 2nd... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1833 - 420 pages
...sky The bloody sun at noon Right up above the mast did stand No bigger than the moon. Day after day, day after day We stuck, nor breath nor motion, As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." The effects of a sudden breeze are set forth with the same nervous and graphic power.... | |
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