The poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. IN SEVEN PARTS. Facile credo, plures esse Naturas invisibles quam visibiles in rerum universitate. Sed horum omnium famili... more »am quis nobis enarrabit ? et gradus et cognationes et discrimina et singulprum munera? Quid agunt ? qua: loca habitant ? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit. Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulS, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem cpntemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodiernae viue minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea invigilandum est, modusque -rvandus, ut certa ab inccrtis, diem a noctc, distinguamus.—T. Buenet, Anhaol. Phil. p. 68. Argument. How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole ; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean ; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country. [1798.] An ancient Mariner meeteth three Gallants bidden to a wedding-feast, and de- taineth one. PART I. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. " By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me ? The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin ; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din." He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. 10 " Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon ! " Eftsoons his hand dropt he. The Wed- He holds him with his glittering eye— it'spen-11"' The Wedding-Guest stood still, bound by the And listens like a three years child : ok?sea-fir- The Mariner hath his will. ing man, and constrained The Wedding-Guest sa...« less