Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Down dropt the breeze, the Sails dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the Sea.
All in a hot and copper sky
The bloody sun at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, ne breath ne motion,
As idle as a painted Ship
Upon a painted Ocean,
Water, water, every where ”

“ He prayeth well who loveth well [errata 3]
Both man and bird and beast. ”

“ A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune. ”

“ Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,
Yet she sail'd softly too:
Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze—
On me alone it blew. ”

“ An orphan's curse would drag to Hell
A spirit from on high:
But O! more horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye! ”

“ How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country. ”

“ He went, like one that hath been stunn'd
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn. ”

“ Since then at an uncertain hour, ”

“ Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy Sea. ”

“ And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.
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“ So lonely 'twas, that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be. ”