 There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky. At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist; It moved...  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Sida 15efter Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 51 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 sidor
...someth1ng 1n the sky. in the element afar off. At first it seem'da little speck, And then it seem'da mist ; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain...wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it near'd and near'd : And as if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tack'd and veer'd. At its nearer... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 sidor
...something in the sky. beholdeth ;Dh^tIc- At first it eeem'da little speck, »far off. And then it seem'da 0 L $ 0 49C B T - " `6` ( 4 & rz U U : i speck, a mist, a shape, I wist ; And still it near'd and near'd ; As if it dodged a water-sprite,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 sidor
...it seemed a little speck, Aud then it seemed a mist ; It moved aud moved, and took at last A certaiu word, as if his soul in That one word it still neared and neared : As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked aud veered. With... | |
 | 1898 - 798 sidor
...each weary cye, When looking westward, 1 beheld A somelhing in thé sky. At first it seemed a Utile speck. And then it seemed a mist : It moved and moved, and look atlast A certain shape, I wist. À speck, a mist, a shape, I wisl! And slill it neared and neared... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 sidor
...searching the horizon in hope of rescue, the text recounts things this way: A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld...and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. (lines 145-52) And the Gloss makes this remark: "The Ancient Mariner beholdeth a sign in the element... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 sidor
...something in the Sky No bigger than my fist; LB1 143 There] So L, THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER 150 When looking westward, I beheld A something in the...mist, a shape, I wist! And still it neared and neared: 155 As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. With throats unslaked, with black... | |
 | Theresa M. Kelley - 1997 - 372 sidor
...etymological affiliation of "shape" with phantasia and Milton's allegorical "shapes" of Sin and Death: "a certain shape, I wist. / A speck, a mist, a Shape, I wist"; "full many Shapes, that shadows were" (Coleridge 192, 205). In the Biographia Literaria Coleridge mocks... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 338 sidor
...dramatic modification recalls the approach of the spectre-bark in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed...speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it neared and neared:86 Shelley's images of cloud and storm also reveal a biblical prototype. In 1 Kings, in the... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 sidor
...westward, 1 beheld A something in the sky. The ancient Mariner beholds a sign in the element afar off. At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed...And still it neared and neared: As if it dodged a water sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. At its nearer approach, it seemeth him to be a ship;... | |
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