 Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and...  Poems - Page 75by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1888Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1798 - 240 pages
...things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. About, about, in red and rout The Death-fires danc'd at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green...and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so : Nine fathom deep he had follow'd us From the Land of Mist and Snow.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...The very deeps dM rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. About, about, in reel and rout The Death-fires danc'd at .night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green and blue and white. And some in dreams... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...with leg* 4 Upon the slimy sea. . . . i * About, about, in reel and rout, ' The death-fires danc'd at night; ' The water, like a witch's oils, ' Burnt...blue, and white.. * And some in dreams assured were ' Of the Spirit that plagued us so: ' Nine fathom deep he had followed us ' From the land of mist and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...The very deeps did rot : O Christ \ That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. About, about, in reel and rout The Death-fires danc'd at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green and blue and white. And some in dreams... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...The very deeps did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. About, about, in reel and rout The Death-fires danc'd at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green and blue and white. And some in dreams... | |
 | Books - 1804 - 994 pages
...a flash of golden fire." Lyrical Ballads, i. 164. " About, about, in reel and rout The death fires danced at night, The water like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white." Ibid. 154. " Oh, sov'ieign Nature ! thou whose sacred sway Softens the rugged heart ; by thee beguil'd... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. 154• About, about, in reel and rout The Death-fires danced...and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so : Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the Land of Mist and Snow.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy Sea. *2 About, about, in reel and tout The Death-fires danced at night; The water, like a...and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so : Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the Land of Mist and Snow.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout...and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were Of the spirit that plagued us so : Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow.... | |
 | England - 1820 - 774 pages
...The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout...a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About... | |
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