| 1872 - 900 lehte
...fittedc* i Softly She Was fiOing Up, yearncth J ' towards the journeying moon, and G48 Her beams beniocked n the clouds of heaven appears God's well-beloved...years, His kingdom is begun. He comes a guilty world oWe'iSi Bey°°<l tlie shadow of the ship he b¿h"!<1' I watched the water-snakes ; creatures They... | |
| 1872 - 660 lehte
...nights, I saw that curse ; And yet I could not die. " The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide ; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside. " Her beams bcmocked the sultry main Like April hoar-frost spread ; But, where the ship's huge shadow lay, The... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873 - 472 lehte
...a curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide,: Softly she was going up, And a star or two besideIn his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 lehte
...extinction ("And yet I could not die") is broken by that extraordinarily lovely ascending movement: The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did...Softly she was going up And a star or two beside. (lines 255-58) The feverous Mariner is tormented yet static, the cooling moon serene yet mobile. Her... | |
| Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 lehte
...enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there isasilentjoy at their arrival . Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, 270 The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. Beyond the shadow of the ship, By the light... | |
| Alfred Alvarez - 1996 - 324 lehte
...to run on and on long after his inspiration had subsided. The poet who wrote a perfect quatrain like The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did...Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside . . . was also guilty of: She felt them coming, but no power Had she the words to smother; And with... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 lehte
...curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And vet I could not die. 260 The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did...Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside — In his loneliness and fixedness he yeameth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still... | |
| Warren Stevenson - 1996 - 166 lehte
...his creatures, which is why he preferred the sublime surrogate moon to the patristic, theistic sun: The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did...Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside— (263-67) As the gloss wonderfully puts it, "In his loneliness and fixedness [the Mariner] yearneth... | |
| David Bromwich - 2000 - 204 lehte
...snakes is something like it — the moment when the hero feels his first companionability with nature: The moving Moon went up the sky And no where did abide:...Softly she was going up And a star or two beside. The opening line of Wordsworth's poem could be spoken next, when, as happens in the Ancient Mariner,... | |
| Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 lehte
...nights, I saw that curse, And and yet I could not die. The moving Moon went up the sky And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up And a star or two...beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spead; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red. By... | |
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