...unknowing act that the mariner begins to throw off the living death to which his imagination has led him: O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gusht from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware! Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I bless'd...

...response to the water snakes, which is best illustrated by quoting the relevant verse (lines 282-7):8 O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed...

...watched the water -snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the...swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Their beauty and their happiness. O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring...

...white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship 1 watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and...swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. 280 Their beauty and their happiness. He blesseth them in his heart. O happy living things! no tongue...

...flowing" — finds one of its most memorable expressions in the familiar lines from the "Ancient Mariner": "A spring of love gushed from my heart, / And I blessed them unaware." Consideration of that poem, especially in light of what it reveals about Coleridge's views on "prayer"...

...of his own situation, he is simply struck by the beauty of the sea-snakes playing around his ship: A spring of love gushed from my heart And I blessed them unaware. Only then can he start to recover the sense of the "liveliness" of nature,—which is, at the deepest...

...day he takes notice of a school of water snakes glistening athwart the bow of his ship. O happy Hung things! No tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed jrom my heart, And I blessed them unau'are. With this the albatross falls from the mariner's neck,...

...they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Looking more closely, he notes also, . . . their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet...swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. (278-8i) From this description, it would appear that these are no ordinary sea creatures. They are...

...and that of the 'hermit good'. Alone and wretched, the mariner blesses the sea creatures by reflex ('A spring of love gushed from my heart, / And I blessed them unaware') and, instantly, the albatross, the symbol of his guilt, falls from around his neck. He is rescued by...

...però vede i serpenti marini, e senza accorgetene, nel suo terzo atto 'inconsapevole', li benedice: O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gush't from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware! Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I bless'd...