Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Sea
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The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free: We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.
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The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
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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.
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Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
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The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
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Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes.
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Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
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The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea.
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Is this the hill? is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree?