Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Quotes

1. I fear thee, ancient Mariner!

   I fear thy skinny hand!

   And thou art long, and lank, and brown,

   As is the ribbed sea-sand.

2. 

   "Ha! ha!" quoth he, "full plain I see,

   The Devil knows how to row."

3. 

   Alone, alone, all, all alone,

   Alone on a wide wide sea!

   And never a saint took pity on

   My soul in agony.

4. 

   Farewell, farewell! but this I tell

   To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!

   ''' He prayeth well, who loveth well

   Both man and bird and beast.

5. 

   We were a ghastly crew.

6. 

   Beyond the shadow of the ship,

   I watched the water-snakes:

   They moved in tracks of shining white,

   And when they reared, the elfish light

   Fell off in hoary flakes.

7. 

   Is this the hill? is this the kirk?

   Is this mine own countree?

8. 

   So lonely 't was, that God himself

   Scarce seemed there to be.

9. 

   The moving Moon went up the sky,

   And no where did abide:

   Softly she was going up,

   And a star or two beside.

10. 

    No voice; but oh! the silence sank

    Like music on my heart.

11. 

    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.

12. 

    I pass, like night, from land to land;

    I have strange power of speech;

    That moment that his face I see,

    I know the man that must hear me:

    To him my tale I teach.