Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Quotes

1. And now there came both mist and snow,

   And it grew wondrous cold:

   And ice, mast-high, came floating by,

   As green as emerald.

2. 

   And I had done an hellish thing,

   And it would work 'em woe:

   For all averred, I had killed the bird

   That made the breeze to blow.

   Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,

   That made the breeze to blow!

3. 

   One after one, by the star-dogged Moon,

   Too quick for groan or sigh,

   Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,

   And cursed me with his eye.

4. 

   I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,

   And cried, A sail! a sail!

5. 

   Without a breeze, without a tide,

   She steadies with upright keel.

6. 

   He holds him with his glittering eye —

   The Wedding-Guest stood still,

   And listens like a three years child:

   The Mariner hath his will.

7. 

   Instead of the cross, the Albatross

   About my neck was hung.

8. 

   The very deep did rot: O Christ!

   That ever this should be!

   Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs

   Upon the slimy sea.

9. 

   Her lips were red, her looks were free,

   Her locks were yellow as gold:

   Her skin was as white as leprosy,

   The Night-Mare Life-in-Death was she,

   Who thicks man's blood with cold.

10. 

    About, about, in reel and rout

    The death fires danced at night.

11. 

    We listened and looked sideways up!

    Fear at my heart, as at a cup,

    My life-blood seemed to sip!

12. 

    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.