 O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare; A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware; Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. "The selfsame moment I could pray; And from my neck so free...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine1820Full view - About this book
 | Sheila Hales - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1994 - 160 pages
...unaware. Suddenly, on the seventh day, the Ancient Mariner blessed these creatures that God had made, and: The self same moment I could pray; And from my neck...Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. Once more the ship began to move through the water. But the ship was too large for the Ancient Mariner... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Politics and literature - 1994 - 452 pages
...bless'd them unaware! Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I bless'd them unaware. The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The...Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. (lines 274-83) Ian Wylie's recent tracing of the radical political, even millennial, implications of... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...my kind saint took pity on me. And I blessed them unaware. The spell begins to break. The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The...Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. 290 PARTY Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given!... | |
 | David Holt - Art - 1997 - 180 pages
...blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. The selfsame moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The...albatross fell off. and sank Like lead into the sea. What is interesting here is the clear link between the Mariner's aesthetic response to the water-snakes... | |
 | David G. Hartwell - Fiction - 1997 - 1018 pages
...burst out and accompanied himself, finding himself thrilled as never before by the concluding words. And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. Afterward, voice silent but heart singing, he switched off the wire and cut in on Polyphema's broadeast.... | |
 | Mervyn Nicholson - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 284 pages
...blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, . And I blessed them unaware. The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The...Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. (ll. 272-291) The gloss to the last stanza reads: "The spell begins to break." What happens in this... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...my kind saint took pity on me. And I blessed them unaware. The spell begins to break. The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The...Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. By grace of the holy Mother, the ancient Mariner is refreshed with rain. PART V Oh sleep! it is a gentle... | |
 | Deborah Cassidi - Religion - 2002 - 186 pages
...blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The...Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 'I love these verses of the Ancient Mariner which aren't really... | |
 | Anne Primavesi - Nature - 2000 - 222 pages
...blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. The selfsame moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell oft", and sank like lead into the sea. (Coleridge 1970: lines 272-91 ) Bateson is not suggesting that... | |
 | John Salinsky - Diseases in literature - 2002 - 252 pages
...might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware . . . The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The...albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. And then it rains as he sleeps. The ship is driven home by the spirit. The curse which had remained... | |
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