Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Quotes

1. The self-same moment I could pray;

   And from my neck so free

   The Albatross fell off, and sank

   Like lead into the sea.

2. 

   Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,

   Beloved from pole to pole.

3. 

   Within the shadow of the ship

   I watched their rich attire:

   Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,

   They coiled and swam; and every track

   Was a flash of golden fire.

4. 

   Like one that on a lonesome road

   Doth walk in fear and dread,

   And having once turned round walks on,

   And turns no more his head;

   Because he knows, a frightful fiend

   Doth close behind him tread.

5. 

   O happy living things! no tongue

   Their beauty might declare:

   A spring of love gushed from my heart,

   And I blessed them unaware:

   Sure my kind saint took pity on me,

   And I blessed them unaware.

6. 

   The man hath penance done,

   And penance more will do.

7. 

   The Mariner, whose eye is bright,

   Whose beard with age is hoar,

   Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest

   Turned from the bridegroom's door. He went like one that hath been stunned,

   And is of sense forlorn:

   A sadder and a wiser man,

   He rose the morrow morn.

8. 

   And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,

   That eats the she-wolf's young.

9. 

   The many men, so beautiful!

   And they all dead did lie:

   And a thousand thousand slimy things

   Lived on; and so did I.

10. 

    'Is it he?' quoth one, 'Is this the man?'

    By him who died on the cross,

    With his cruel bow he laid full low

    The harmless Albatross

11. 

    An orphan's curse would drag to Hell

    A spirit from on high;

    But oh! more horrible than that

    Is a curse in a dead man's eye!

    Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,

    And yet I could not die.

12. 

    The spirit who bideth by himself

    In the land of mist and snow,

    He loved the bird that loved the man

    That shot him with his bow.