 | Bernard Smith - Art - 1992 - 290 pages
...to discuss whether Coleridge had the aurora australis or the aurora borealis in mind when he wrote: The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro were hurried about! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. Quite likely, recollections... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 pages
...strange sights But with its sound it shook the sails, and commotio"s in the _, , . , sky and the clement. That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, 315 To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between.... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...had died in sleep. And was a blessed ghost. And soon I heard a roaring wind: It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so...loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; And the rain poured down from one black cloud; The Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and still... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. And soon I heard a roaring wind: It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere. The bodies of the ship's crew are inspirited and the ship moves on; The upper air burst into life! And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 2002 - 260 pages
...died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. And soon I heard a roaring wind: 345 It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so...air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, 3 5° To and fro they were hurried about! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 2002 - 92 pages
...commotions in the sky and the element. And soon I heard a roaring wind: ¿io It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook, the sails, That were...air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, ji, To and fro they were hurried about! Parte quinta o donmire! 0 dolce da polo a polo amata! Sia bode... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 2002 - 92 pages
...commotions in the sky and the element. And soon I heard a roaring wind: 310 It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so...air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, 31 3 To and fro they were hurried about! Parte quinta O dormire! O dolce cosa da polo a polo amata!... | |
 | Timothy Ferris - Nature - 2003 - 404 pages
...having witnessed the Leonid meteor shower of 1797, these lines of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "The upper air burst into life! / And a hundred fire-flags...fro, and in and out, / The wan stars danced between. . . ." 4. Thomas Jefferson, letter to David Salmon, February 15, 1808, quoted in Bedini, Thomas Jefferson,... | |
 | Barry Spurr, Lloyd Cameron - English literature - 2000 - 332 pages
...wind appear with an abundance that is splendidly described in the richness of the poetry in Part V: The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags...fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. Yet, it is still a night-time world, of sleep, and the Virgin Queen of Heaven, and of the moon —... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. And soon I heard a roaring wind: It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere.14 The upper air burst into life! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried... | |
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The upper air burst into life, And a hundred fire-flags sheen To and fro they were hurried about ; And to and fro, and in and out The wan stars danced between. 
