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'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!' Eftsoons his hand dropt he. He holds him with his glittering eye— The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
- It is an ancient mariner. And he stoppeth one of three. --"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stoppest thou me? The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
- The sun now rose upon the right: Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left. Went down into the sea. And the good south wind still blew behind,
- There passed a weary time. Each throat. Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld.
- "I fear thee, ancient mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. I fear thee and thy glittering eye,
The Mariner’s story begins with the ship leaving harbor and sailing southward. A tremendous storm then blows the ship even further to the South Pole, where the crew are awed as they encounter mist, snow, cold, and giant glaciers. An Albatross breaks the pristine lifelessness of the Antarctic.
The poem’s main text concerns an anonymous elderly Mariner who draws a young man away from his companion’s wedding celebration to tell him a story. This story recounts his experience of wrongfully killing an albatross and the harrowing spiritual journey that followed.
May 31, 2024 · The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, poem in seven parts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that first appeared in Lyrical Ballads, published collaboratively by Coleridge and William Wordsworth in 1798. The title character detains one of three young men on their way to a wedding feast and mesmerizes him with.
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