Quote #45
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
- The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
- The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free: We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.
- About, about, in reel and rout The death fires danced at night.
- '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.
- I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail! a sail!
- 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!
- 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 s…