...floated onward — what part has the world in his progress ? The last question is answered first : " Still as a slave before his lord, the ocean hath no...bright eye most silently up to the moon is cast." Far above all finite differences and determinations, the eternally Positive gazes down upon the world...

...me ! speak again, Thy soft response renewing — What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing ? ' SECOND VOICE. ' Still as a slave before...The ocean hath no blast ; His great bright eye most silentlj Up to the Moon is cast — If he may know which way to go ; For she guides him smooth or grim....

...that steady moon which had been a central image in Coleridge's poetry during the preceding months: 'Still as a Slave before his Lord, 'The Ocean hath...brother, see! how graciously 'She looketh down on him." and oft, a moment's space, What time the moon was lost behind a cloud, Hath heard a pause of silence:...

...Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads of 1798, a spectral voice projects the obverse image: " 'Still as a Slave before his Lord, / The Ocean hath...bright eye most silently / Up to the moon is cast—.' " 14. The Unremarkable Poet 1 . I do not know whether it has been noticed, but something in the enumeration...

...ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing? SECOND VOICE. Still as a slave before his lord, 415 The ocean hath no blast; His great bright eye most...which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. 420 See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him. FIRST VOICE. But why drives on that...

...me! speak again. Thy soft response renewing — What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing?" Second Voice "Still as a slave before...great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast — 410 If he may know which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see! how graciously...

...androgyny is, as we have seen, delicately adumbrated in The Ancient Mariner in the passage beginning 'Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath...bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast.' (413-16) "Dejection: an Ode," Coleridge's swan song as a major poet. First addressed in the form of...

...journey in Part VI of The Rime oJ the Ancient Mariner: Still as a slave before his lord. The ocean has no blast; His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast— (ll. 414-17) Another parallel is that noted by Coleridge himself. In Sibylline Leaves he added a note,...

...'Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath no blast; His great bright eye most silently 470 Up to the Moon is cast If he may know which way to...brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.' 475 [137} First Voice 'But why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind?' Second Voice...

...me! speak again, Thy soft response renewing - 465 What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing?' Second Voice 'Still as a slave before...hath no blast; His great bright eye most silently 470 Up to the Moon is cast If he may know which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. See brother,...