 | 1872 - 660 psl.
...opened wide, And I am next of kin ; The guests are met, the feast is set : Mayst hear the merry din." He holds him with his glittering eye : The wedding-guest stood still, And listens like a three-years' child : The mariner hath his will. The wedding-guest sat on a stone ; He can not choose... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873 - 472 psl.
...wherefore stopp'st ihou me ? a weddingfeast, andde" The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, tamet one" And I am next of kin ; " The guests are met, the feast...dropt he. He holds him with his glittering eye — The WeddingThe Wedding-Guest stood still gj»t is spdjAnd listens like a three years child : eyc of inc... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 psl.
...By thy long gray beard and glittering at'ifleSn- eye> etho'iie."0 Now wherefore stopp'st thon me ? L7 L7 r7 unharfd me, grayb^ar loon ! " — Eftsoons his hand dropt he. din'"'«! He holds him with his glittering... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 psl.
...doors aro open'd wide, And I am next of kin ; The guests are met, tho feast is set ; Mayst hear tho l of Justice,' make up Crabbe's large and valuable...contribution to the poetical literature of his coun gray-beard loon ; " Eftsoons his hand dropt he. He holds him with his glittering eye— The wedding-guest... | |
 | Albert Charles Hamilton - 1997 - 884 psl.
...one as well) manages to be Spenserian in feeling, though set at sea and written in ballad quatrains: 'He holds him with his skinny hand, / "There was a...me, grey-beard loon!" / Eftsoons his hand dropt he.' The ballad stanza points to Bishop Percy's Reliques (1765) as the poem's most immediate conditioning... | |
 | Gerhard Bach, Jakob J. Köllhofer - 1991 - 214 psl.
...from the first four stanzas of the poem. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. . . . He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. ... He holds him with his glittering eye — The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three... | |
 | H. G. Widdowson - 1992 - 248 psl.
...stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next...met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.' The next three verses then show no less than seven shifts of tense, backwards and forwards, from simple... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 psl.
...grey beard and glittering eye, wedding-feast, and NOw wherefore stOpp'st thou me? detaincth one. 5 "The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; Text from 1834. Variants and other readings from Lyrical Ballads, 1798 (LB1); LB1 as altered by Coleridge... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 psl.
...thy long grey beard and glittering eye. Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors arc opened wide. And I am next of kin; The guests are...me, grey-beard loon!" Eftsoons his hand dropt he. ia The WeddingGuest is spellbound by the eye of the old seafarrng man, and constrarned to hear his... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - 1997 - 592 psl.
...developed most typically by Poe, which makes for repetition of words and a sort of suppressed refrain: He holds him with his skinny hand, “There was a ship,” quoth he. “Hold off! unhand me, gray-beard loon!” Eftsoons his hand dropt he.¿ 6 It therefore follows that rhyme is essential to... | |
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The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din. 
