 The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's...  The book of celebrated poems - Stran 341avtor: Book - 1854 - 448 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Robert F. Hobson - 1985 - 340 strani
...of himself as having no family - as being a spiritual orphan. 'An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than...seven nights, I saw that curse. And yet I could not die.'14 When I was very young - about five I suppose - I had a dread of pennies. My mother had once... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - 1988 - 458 strani
...were at my feet. He reels about half-mad, in terror of the dead. An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than...nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. In pantomime. He pleads with God for death to end his torture. The Moon rises. Exhausted he lies over... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 strani
...Macbeth William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet I do not make war against the dead. Homer (8th century... | |
 | Joseph Lewis Henderson, Maud Oakes - 1990 - 324 strani
...drag to hell A spirit from on high; But ohi more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye I Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet...could not die. The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside — Her beams bemocked the sultry... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 strani
...dust" [247]) or to analogies that appeal to an orthodox mentality: An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! (257-60) This is not the way the Mariner projects horror in Part III. In this passage he insists that... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 strani
...away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that 260 Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven...I could not die. The moving Moon went up the sky, In his loneliness and And no where did abide: fixedness he yearneth 265 Softly she was going up, towards... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 strani
...men. The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than...eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And vet I could not die. 260 The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: Softly she was going... | |
 | Anne Williams - 2009 - 325 strani
...his identity as an agent, the stronger his capacity for guilt: An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! (LI. 257-60) The Mariner's I is confirmed by his guilty sense that he is being looked at—the gaze... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 strani
...But consider what happens in another stanza of the same poem: An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than...nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The rhyme is satisfied as before, but the stanza unexpectedly plunges ahead, adding yet a third rhyme.... | |
 | Mervyn Nicholson - 1999 - 284 strani
...looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; Bui oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead...nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. (11. 248-262) Coleridge's gloss to the poem adds: "the curse liveth for him in the eye of the dead... | |
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