Sibylline Leaves A Collection of Poems Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1817 Original Publisher: Rest Fenner Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. ... more »It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. PART THE THIRD. The ancient Mariner be- holdeth asign in the element afar off. There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time ! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye! When looking westward, 1 beheld A something in the sky. At first it seem'd a little speck, And then it seem'd a mist: It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it near'd and near'd : And as if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tack'd and veer'd. With throat unslack'd, with black lips At its nearer approach, it seemeth him to be a ship ; and at a dear Through utter drought all dumb we stood ! ransom he freeth his I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, baked, We could nor laugh nor wail; And cried, A sail! a sail! speech from the bonds of thirst. With throat unslacked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call: Gramercy! they for joy did grin, A flash of joy. And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. See ! see ! (I cried) she tacks no more ! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steddies with upright keel! The western wave was all a-flame. The day was well nigh done ! Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright Sun ; When that strange shape drove suddenly Betwixt us and the Sun. A...« less