Quote #36
He holds him with his glittering eye - The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years child: The Mariner hath his will.
More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.
- The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the light-house top.
- It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long gray beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?'
- The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
- If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if…
- The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.
- He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother,…
- And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.