 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...bride And bridemaids singing are : And hark ! the little vesper bell Which biddeth me to prayer. О 0 sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'TÍ3 sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1873 - 750 pages
...comparable in its way to the loneliness of Clytie, though a world dashed its mighty waves at her feet. Alone on a wide, wide sea, So lonely 'twas that God Himself Scarce seeme'd there to be. Can you not picture her ? Can you not imagine the dazed anxious face of the wilful beauty ? Can you... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...'twas, thut God himself Scarce seemed there to be. О sweeter thaii the niarriage-feaht, Tie Bweeter ket I — To walk together to the kirk, And all together pnvy, While each to hie great Father bend«, Old... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - Drama - 1988 - 458 pages
...bride-maids singing are; Bell from the kirk. And hark the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me to prayer! O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. O sweeter than the marriage-feast, T is sweeter... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 268 pages
...bride And bride-maids singing are: 595 And hark the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me to prayer! O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself eoo Scarce seemed there to be. O sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me, 577 of] not... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Politics and literature - 1994 - 452 pages
...shattered by suffering of a sort not unknown to Coleridge: the agony of an isolated and outcast soul, Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be (lines 631-33), and subjected to primordial forces so beyond his control as to cast doubt not only... | |
 | Jim Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 230 pages
...feet straight down below the surface. A line from the "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" came to mind: "Alone on a wide wide sea, so lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be." Samoa seemed a long way off. We rigged a cockpit awning and tried not to fight the problem. Motoring... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - Religion - 1997 - 128 pages
...creation around us with fresh eyes. And at times we can feel isolated in creation. As Coleridge wrote: Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.1 In times of trouble and loneliness, have we not all drawn comfort from singing hymns and saying... | |
 | Alex Cheung - Religion - 1999 - 348 pages
...There may be many that have lately been saying of themselves, with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, . . . this soul hath been Alone on a wide, wide sea, So...'twas that God Himself Scarce seemed there to be. But I hope I have given good reason why they should now decide, again with the Mariner, To walk together... | |
 | David Adam - Religion - 1999 - 268 pages
...an exile endured a winter on the icy sea.46 Then again those lines from the 'Ancient Mariner': . . . this soul hath been Alone on a wide, wide sea; So...'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. Certainly the Psalmist was right: Nisi Dominusfrustra. Without the Lord all frustrates. It is as if... | |
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And all together pray. While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends. And youths and maidens gay... 
