 Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire; Blue, glossy green, and velvet...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Seite 1131828Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Mervyn Nicholson - 1999 - 284 Seiten
...male rage. The Ancient Mariner has a clearly marked turning point, the blessing of the water-snakes: Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes:...off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every... | |
 | Deborah Cassidi - 2002 - 186 Seiten
...is a prayer although it is a poem, because it is so beautiful.' From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes:...off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 Seiten
...happiness. He blesseth them in his heart. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white And when they...off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every... | |
 | Andrew Graham-Dixon - 1999 - 344 Seiten
...effects may recall, too, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's descriptions of watersnakes, in The Ancient Mariner. 'They moved in tracks of shining white, / And when...reared, the elfish light / Fell off in hoary flakes . . . They coiled and swam; and every track /Was a flash of golden fire.'"' The climactic work in Tintoretto's... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2009 - 380 Seiten
...lifted at the epiphanic moment when, unexpectedly, the mariner beholds the water snakes as beautiful — "They moved in tracks of shining white, / And when...reared, / the elfish light / Fell off in hoary flakes" — and "I blessed them unaware." This is an even more striking turn than the equivalent point near... | |
 | Deryck Scarr - 2001 - 376 Seiten
...Christ! That ever this should be! Yea slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea All this, while Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white And where they reared, the elfish light Flew off in hoary flakes. That was landsman's talk, perhaps a decorous... | |
 | Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 Seiten
...beholdeth Beyond the shadow of the ship, God's creatures of the great calm I watched the water snakes; They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they...off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship, I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 260 Seiten
...Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, 310 And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, 315 They coiled and swam; and every... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 92 Seiten
...aiway A still and awful red. By the light of the Moon he beboldeth God's creatures of the great calm. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, 27$ And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2002 - 260 Seiten
...spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, 305 The charmed water burnt alway A still and awfi1l red. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, 3 10 And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship... | |
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