 | English literature - 1852 - 1070 pages
...does not the heart thrill with the aerial melody, and serene loveliness, of these so simple lines ? 1 It ceased ; yet still the sails made on, A pleasant...A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month (if June, That to the sleeping woods all nl^lit Singcth a quiet tune.' But we can particularise its... | |
 | George Anderson (of Glasgow.) - 1852 - 106 pages
...sound of rustling leaves and falling waters sinks upon his ear with a gentle cadence — " A noise as of a hidden brook " In the leafy month of June, "...sleeping woods, all night, " Singeth a quiet tune ; " or by the clear and pebbly river, where the spotted trout leaps at the mayfly, and where the broken... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pages
..."With their sweet jargoning ! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And now it is an angel's song, That makes( the heavens be...the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. Under the keel nine fathom deep, From the land of mist and s&ow, The spirit slid : and it was he That... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...'twas like all instruments. Now like a lonely flute ; And now it is an angel's song, That makes tho heavens be mute. It ceased ; yet still the sails made...noise till noon, ( A noise like of a hidden brook _ , In the leafy month of June, ut*" That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. Till... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...With their sweet jargoning ! And now Ч was like all instruments Now like a lonely flute ; And now it is an angel's song. That makes the Heavens be mute. It ceased ; yet still the sails made о A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...again, Now mix'd; now one by one. And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute, And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute....all night Singeth a quiet tune. Till noon we quietly sail'd on, Yet never a breeze did breathe : Slowly and smoothly went the ship, Moved onward from beneath.... | |
 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
...and he hears supernatural music: And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute....the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. These images of a familiar English nature contrast with the unnatural scene described a few stanzas... | |
 | Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker - Poetry - 1984 - 232 pages
...version). A similar suggestion is carried by the lines in which he describes the motion of the ship, Till noon we quietly sailed on,/ Yet never a breeze did breathe' (11.373-374). The mariner sees a life in nature, but he does not feel it. The ship is sailing so there... | |
 | James B. Twitchell - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 236 pages
..."Coleridge's Revision of The Ancient Mariner," Studies in Philology 2q (1932): 90. 1 798 — text retained It ceased: yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.... | |
 | Nicholas V. Riasanovsky - History - 1995 - 128 pages
...air With their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute....the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All... | |
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It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. 
