 And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; "We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. "Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5651834Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1823 - 816 pages
...those experienced in attempting to swallow soot: And every tongue, through utter drought, Was wither'd at the root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been chok'd with toot. Through utter drought all dumb we stood, Till I bit my arm and suck' ”I the blood,... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...had followed us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was wither'd at the root, We could not speak, no more than if We had been choak'd with soot. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1828 - 386 pages
...consulted. They are very numerous, and there is uo climate or element without one or more. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ;...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah ! well a-dav ! what evil looks T"" shiP» mates, in their Had I from old and young ! wdHid *££"''... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...had followed us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought Was withcr'd hart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shap'd by h choak'd with soot. Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 426 pages
...consulted. They are very numerous, and there is no climate or clement without one or more. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ;...been choked with soot. Ah! wella-day! what evil looks mat^Sheir Had I from old and young! SS^ Instead of the cross, the Albatross wEESaitoa About my neck... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...tbcrt it no clinutv or element without one or more. And every tongue, thro* utter drought, Was wither'd OLIMPIO. MARZIO. We strangled him, that there migh bad been choked with soot. A -,,.,, i bad fol lowed them ; oner oCtheinrmblein habitant* of ihia planet,—... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...We had been choked with soot. " Ah ! well a day, what evil looks We could not speak, no more than if Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung."—vol. ii. p. 6, 7We know nothing in modern poetry more appallingly sublime than the following... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1835 - 352 pages
...consulted. They are very numerous, and there to no climate or element without one or more. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We...speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. parted cools nor angels; Ah ! well a-day! what evil looks Th ' >h 'PHad I from old and young-! |he... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1835 - 394 pages
...We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looraP Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the albatross About my neck was hung. PART III. THERE passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time ! a... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1836 - 496 pages
...assured were Of the spirit that plagued UB so : And every tongue through utter drouth Was wither'd at the root; We could not speak no more than if We...young ! Instead of the cross the albatross About my ueck was hung. " So pass'da weary time ; each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye, When, looking... | |
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