Quote #43

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free: We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.

More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. 'God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus! - Why look'st thou so?' - With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross.
  2. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
  3. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
  4. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.
  5. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
  6. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
  7. The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.
  8. About, about, in reel and rout The death fires danced at night.

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