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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772–1834)

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He holds him with his glittering eye,
And listens like a three years’ child. 1

The Ancient Mariner. Part i.

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Red as a rose is she.

The Ancient Mariner. Part i.

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We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.

The Ancient Mariner. Part ii.

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As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

The Ancient Mariner. Part ii.

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Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.

The Ancient Mariner. Part ii.

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Without a breeze, without a tide,
She steadies with upright keel.

The Ancient Mariner. Part iii.

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The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

The Ancient Mariner. Part iii.

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The sun’s rim dips; the stars rush out:
At one stride comes the dark;
With far-heard whisper o’er the sea,
Off shot the spectre-bark.

The Ancient Mariner. Part iii.

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And thou art long and lank and brown,
As is the ribbed sea-sand. 2

The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.

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Alone, alone,—all, all alone;
Alone on a wide, wide sea.

The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.

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The moving moon went up the sky,
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside.

The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.

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A spring of love gush’d from my heart,
And I bless’d them unaware.

The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.

Note 1.
Wordsworth, in his Notes to “We are Seven,” claims to have written this line. [back]

Note 2.
Coleridge says: “For these lines I am indebted to Mr. Wordsworth.” [back]