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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by
+Samuel Taylor Coleridge
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
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+
+Title: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
+
+Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
+
+Release Date: March 11, 2006 [EBook #151]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Judy Boss
+
+
+
+
+
+THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
+
+IN SEVEN PARTS
+
+By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
+
+
+
+PART THE FIRST.
+
+ 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.
+ "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 chuse but hear;
+ And thus spake on that ancient man,
+ The bright-eyed Mariner.
+
+ The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
+ Merrily did we drop
+ Below the kirk, below the hill,
+ Below the light-house top.
+
+ The Sun came up upon the left,
+ Out of the sea came he!
+ And he shone bright, and on the right
+ Went down into the sea.
+
+ Higher and higher every day,
+ Till over the mast at noon--
+ The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,
+ For he heard the loud bassoon.
+
+ The bride hath paced into the hall,
+ Red as a rose is she;
+ Nodding their heads before her goes
+ The merry minstrelsy.
+
+ The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,
+ Yet he cannot chuse but hear;
+ And thus spake on that ancient man,
+ The bright-eyed Mariner.
+
+ And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
+ Was tyrannous and strong:
+ He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
+ And chased south along.
+
+ With sloping masts and dipping prow,
+ As who pursued with yell and blow
+ Still treads the shadow of his foe
+ And forward bends his head,
+ The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
+ And southward aye we fled.
+
+ And now there came both mist and snow,
+ And it grew wondrous cold:
+ And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
+ As green as emerald.
+
+ And through the drifts the snowy clifts
+ Did send a dismal sheen:
+ Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken--
+ The ice was all between.
+
+ 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!
+
+ At length did cross an Albatross:
+ Thorough the fog it came;
+ As if it had been a Christian soul,
+ We hailed it in God's name.
+
+ It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
+ And round and round it flew.
+ The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
+ The helmsman steered us through!
+
+ And a good south wind sprung up behind;
+ The Albatross did follow,
+ And every day, for food or play,
+ Came to the mariners' hollo!
+
+ In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
+ It perched for vespers nine;
+ Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
+ Glimmered the white Moon-shine.
+
+ "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.
+
+
+
+
+PART THE SECOND.
+
+ 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
+ But no sweet bird did follow,
+ Nor any day for food or play
+ Came to the mariners' hollo!
+
+ And I had done an hellish thing,
+ And it would work 'em woe:
+ For all averred, I had killed the bird
+ That made the breeze to blow.
+ Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay
+ That made the breeze to blow!
+
+ Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
+ The glorious Sun uprist:
+ Then all averred, I had killed the bird
+ That brought the fog and mist.
+ 'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
+ That bring the fog and mist.
+
+ The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
+ The furrow followed free:
+ We were the first that ever burst
+ Into that silent sea.
+
+ Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
+ 'Twas sad as sad could be;
+ And we did speak only to break
+ The silence of the sea!
+
+ All in a hot and copper sky,
+ The bloody Sun, at noon,
+ Right up above the mast did stand,
+ No bigger than the Moon.
+
+ Day after day, day after day,
+ We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
+ As idle as a painted ship
+ Upon a painted ocean.
+
+ Water, water, every where,
+ And all the boards did shrink;
+ Water, water, every where,
+ Nor any drop to drink.
+
+ The very deep did rot: O Christ!
+ That ever this should be!
+ Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
+ Upon the slimy sea.
+
+ About, about, in reel and rout
+ The death-fires danced at night;
+ The water, like a witch's oils,
+ Burnt green, and blue and white.
+
+ And some in dreams assured were
+ Of the spirit that plagued us so:
+ Nine fathom deep he had followed us
+ From the land of mist and snow.
+
+ And every tongue, through utter drought,
+ Was withered at the root;
+ We could not speak, no more than if
+ We had been choked with soot.
+
+ Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
+ Had I from old and young!
+ Instead of the cross, the Albatross
+ About my neck was hung.
+
+
+
+
+PART THE THIRD.
+
+ 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, I beheld
+ A something in the sky.
+
+ At first it seemed a little speck,
+ And then it seemed 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 neared and neared:
+ As if it dodged a water-sprite,
+ It plunged and tacked and veered.
+
+ With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
+ We could not laugh nor wail;
+ Through utter drought all dumb we stood!
+ I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,
+ And cried, A sail! a sail!
+
+ With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
+ Agape they heard me call:
+ Gramercy! they for joy did grin,
+ 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 steadies 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.
+
+ And straight the Sun was flecked with bars,
+ (Heaven's Mother send us grace!)
+ As if through a dungeon-grate he peered,
+ With broad and burning face.
+
+ Alas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud)
+ How fast she nears and nears!
+ Are those her sails that glance in the Sun,
+ Like restless gossameres!
+
+ Are those her ribs through which the Sun
+ Did peer, as through a grate?
+ And is that Woman all her crew?
+ Is that a DEATH? and are there two?
+ Is DEATH that woman's mate?
+
+ 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 she,
+ Who thicks man's blood with cold.
+
+ The naked hulk alongside came,
+ And the twain were casting dice;
+ "The game is done! I've won! I've won!"
+ Quoth she, and whistles thrice.
+
+ 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.
+
+ We listened and looked sideways up!
+ Fear at my heart, as at a cup,
+ My life-blood seemed to sip!
+
+ The stars were dim, and thick the night,
+ The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white;
+ From the sails the dew did drip--
+ Till clombe above the eastern bar
+ The horned Moon, with one bright star
+ Within the nether tip.
+
+ One after one, by the star-dogged Moon
+ Too quick for groan or sigh,
+ Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,
+ And cursed me with his eye.
+
+ Four times fifty living men,
+ (And I heard nor sigh nor groan)
+ With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
+ They dropped down one by one.
+
+ The souls did from their bodies fly,--
+ They fled to bliss or woe!
+ And every soul, it passed me by,
+ Like the whizz of my CROSS-BOW!
+
+
+
+
+PART THE FOURTH.
+
+ "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,
+ And thy skinny hand, so brown."--
+ Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest!
+ This body dropt not down.
+
+ Alone, alone, all, all alone,
+ Alone on a wide wide sea!
+ And never a saint took pity on
+ My soul in agony.
+
+ The many men, so beautiful!
+ And they all dead did lie:
+ And a thousand thousand slimy things
+ Lived on; and so did I.
+
+ I looked upon the rotting sea,
+ And drew my eyes away;
+ I looked upon the rotting deck,
+ And there the dead men lay.
+
+ I looked to Heaven, and tried to pray:
+ But or ever a prayer had gusht,
+ A wicked whisper came, and made
+ my heart as dry as dust.
+
+ I closed my lids, and kept them close,
+ And the balls like pulses beat;
+ For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky
+ Lay like a load on my weary eye,
+ And the dead were at my feet.
+
+ The cold sweat melted from their limbs,
+ Nor rot nor reek did they:
+ The look with which they looked on me
+ Had never passed away.
+
+ An orphan's curse would drag to Hell
+ A spirit from on high;
+ But oh! more horrible than that
+ Is a curse in a dead man's eye!
+ Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
+ And yet I could not die.
+
+ The moving Moon went up the sky,
+ And no where did abide:
+ Softly she was going up,
+ And a star or two beside.
+
+ Her beams bemocked the sultry main,
+ Like April hoar-frost spread;
+ But where the ship's huge shadow lay,
+ The charmed water burnt alway
+ A still and awful red.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ O happy living things! no tongue
+ Their beauty might declare:
+ A spring of love gushed from my heart,
+ And I blessed them unaware:
+ Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
+ And I blessed them unaware.
+
+ The self same moment I could pray;
+ And from my neck so free
+ The Albatross fell off, and sank
+ Like lead into the sea.
+
+
+
+
+PART THE FIFTH.
+
+ Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
+ Beloved from pole to pole!
+ To Mary Queen the praise be given!
+ She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
+ That slid into my soul.
+
+ The silly buckets on the deck,
+ That had so long remained,
+ I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
+ And when I awoke, it rained.
+
+ My lips were wet, my throat was cold,
+ My garments all were dank;
+ Sure I had drunken in my dreams,
+ And still my body drank.
+
+ I moved, and could not feel my limbs:
+ I was so light--almost
+ I thought that I had died in sleep,
+ And was a blessed ghost.
+
+ And soon I heard a roaring wind:
+ It did not come anear;
+ But with its sound it shook the sails,
+ That were so thin and sere.
+
+ The upper air burst into life!
+ And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
+ To and fro they were hurried about!
+ And to and fro, and in and out,
+ The wan stars danced between.
+
+ And the coming wind did roar more loud,
+ And the sails did sigh like sedge;
+ And the rain poured down from one black cloud;
+ The Moon was at its edge.
+
+ The thick black cloud was cleft, and still
+ The Moon was at its side:
+ Like waters shot from some high crag,
+ The lightning fell with never a jag,
+ A river steep and wide.
+
+ The loud wind never reached the ship,
+ Yet now the ship moved on!
+ Beneath the lightning and the Moon
+ The dead men gave a groan.
+
+ They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
+ Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
+ It had been strange, even in a dream,
+ To have seen those dead men rise.
+
+ The helmsman steered, the ship moved on;
+ Yet never a breeze up blew;
+ The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,
+ Where they were wont to do:
+ They raised their limbs like lifeless tools--
+ We were a ghastly crew.
+
+ The body of my brother's son,
+ Stood by me, knee to knee:
+ The body and I pulled at one rope,
+ But he said nought to me.
+
+ "I fear thee, ancient Mariner!"
+ Be calm, thou Wedding-Guest!
+ 'Twas not those souls that fled in pain,
+ Which to their corses came again,
+ But a troop of spirits blest:
+
+ For when it dawned--they dropped their arms,
+ And clustered round the mast;
+ Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
+ And from their bodies passed.
+
+ Around, around, flew each sweet sound,
+ Then darted to the Sun;
+ Slowly the sounds came back again,
+ Now mixed, now one by one.
+
+ Sometimes a-dropping from the sky
+ I heard the sky-lark sing;
+ Sometimes all little birds that are,
+ How they seemed to fill the sea and air
+ With their sweet jargoning!
+
+ And now 'twas like all instruments,
+ Now like a lonely flute;
+ And now it is an angel's song,
+ That makes the Heavens be mute.
+
+ It ceased; yet still the sails made on
+ A pleasant noise till noon,
+ A noise like of a hidden brook
+ In the leafy month of June,
+ That to the sleeping woods all night
+ Singeth a quiet tune.
+
+ Till noon we quietly sailed on,
+ Yet never a breeze did breathe:
+ Slowly and smoothly went the ship,
+ Moved onward from beneath.
+
+ Under the keel nine fathom deep,
+ From the land of mist and snow,
+ The spirit slid: and it was he
+ That made the ship to go.
+ The sails at noon left off their tune,
+ And the ship stood still also.
+
+ The Sun, right up above the mast,
+ Had fixed her to the ocean:
+ But in a minute she 'gan stir,
+ With a short uneasy motion--
+ Backwards and forwards half her length
+ With a short uneasy motion.
+
+ Then like a pawing horse let go,
+ She made a sudden bound:
+ It flung the blood into my head,
+ And I fell down in a swound.
+
+ How long in that same fit I lay,
+ I have not to declare;
+ But ere my living life returned,
+ I heard and in my soul discerned
+ Two VOICES in the air.
+
+ "Is it he?" quoth one, "Is this the man?
+ By him who died on cross,
+ With his cruel bow he laid full low,
+ The harmless Albatross.
+
+ "The spirit who bideth by himself
+ In the land of mist and snow,
+ He loved the bird that loved the man
+ Who shot him with his bow."
+
+ The other was a softer voice,
+ As soft as honey-dew:
+ Quoth he, "The man hath penance done,
+ And penance more will do."
+
+
+
+
+PART THE SIXTH.
+
+
+ FIRST VOICE.
+
+ But tell me, tell me! speak again,
+ Thy soft response renewing--
+ What makes that ship drive on so fast?
+ What is the OCEAN doing?
+
+
+ SECOND VOICE.
+
+ Still as a slave before his lord,
+ The OCEAN hath no blast;
+ His great bright eye most silently
+ Up to the Moon is cast--
+
+ If he may know which way to go;
+ For she guides him smooth or grim
+ See, brother, see! how graciously
+ She looketh down on him.
+
+
+ FIRST VOICE.
+
+ But why drives on that ship so fast,
+ Without or wave or wind?
+
+
+ SECOND VOICE.
+
+ The air is cut away before,
+ And closes from behind.
+
+ Fly, brother, fly! more high, more high
+ Or we shall be belated:
+ For slow and slow that ship will go,
+ When the Mariner's trance is abated.
+
+ I woke, and we were sailing on
+ As in a gentle weather:
+ 'Twas night, calm night, the Moon was high;
+ The dead men stood together.
+
+ All stood together on the deck,
+ For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
+ All fixed on me their stony eyes,
+ That in the Moon did glitter.
+
+ The pang, the curse, with which they died,
+ Had never passed away:
+ I could not draw my eyes from theirs,
+ Nor turn them up to pray.
+
+ And now this spell was snapt: once more
+ I viewed the ocean green.
+ And looked far forth, yet little saw
+ Of what had else been seen--
+
+ Like one that on a lonesome road
+ Doth walk in fear and dread,
+ And having once turned round walks on,
+ And turns no more his head;
+ Because he knows, a frightful fiend
+ Doth close behind him tread.
+
+ But soon there breathed a wind on me,
+ Nor sound nor motion made:
+ Its path was not upon the sea,
+ In ripple or in shade.
+
+ It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek
+ Like a meadow-gale of spring--
+ It mingled strangely with my fears,
+ Yet it felt like a welcoming.
+
+ Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,
+ Yet she sailed softly too:
+ Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze--
+ On me alone it blew.
+
+ Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed
+ The light-house top I see?
+ Is this the hill? is this the kirk?
+ Is this mine own countree!
+
+ We drifted o'er the harbour-bar,
+ And I with sobs did pray--
+ O let me be awake, my God!
+ Or let me sleep alway.
+
+ The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
+ So smoothly it was strewn!
+ And on the bay the moonlight lay,
+ And the shadow of the moon.
+
+ The rock shone bright, the kirk no less,
+ That stands above the rock:
+ The moonlight steeped in silentness
+ The steady weathercock.
+
+ And the bay was white with silent light,
+ Till rising from the same,
+ Full many shapes, that shadows were,
+ In crimson colours came.
+
+ A little distance from the prow
+ Those crimson shadows were:
+ I turned my eyes upon the deck--
+ Oh, Christ! what saw I there!
+
+ Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat,
+ And, by the holy rood!
+ A man all light, a seraph-man,
+ On every corse there stood.
+
+ This seraph band, each waved his hand:
+ It was a heavenly sight!
+ They stood as signals to the land,
+ Each one a lovely light:
+
+ This seraph-band, each waved his hand,
+ No voice did they impart--
+ No voice; but oh! the silence sank
+ Like music on my heart.
+
+ But soon I heard the dash of oars;
+ I heard the Pilot's cheer;
+ My head was turned perforce away,
+ And I saw a boat appear.
+
+ The Pilot, and the Pilot's boy,
+ I heard them coming fast:
+ Dear Lord in Heaven! it was a joy
+ The dead men could not blast.
+
+ I saw a third--I heard his voice:
+ It is the Hermit good!
+ He singeth loud his godly hymns
+ That he makes in the wood.
+ He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away
+ The Albatross's blood.
+
+
+
+
+PART THE SEVENTH.
+
+ This Hermit good lives in that wood
+ Which slopes down to the sea.
+ How loudly his sweet voice he rears!
+ He loves to talk with marineres
+ That come from a far countree.
+
+ He kneels at morn and noon and eve--
+ He hath a cushion plump:
+ It is the moss that wholly hides
+ The rotted old oak-stump.
+
+ The skiff-boat neared: I heard them talk,
+ "Why this is strange, I trow!
+ Where are those lights so many and fair,
+ That signal made but now?"
+
+ "Strange, by my faith!" the Hermit said--
+ "And they answered not our cheer!
+ The planks looked warped! and see those sails,
+ How thin they are and sere!
+ I never saw aught like to them,
+ Unless perchance it were
+
+ "Brown skeletons of leaves that lag
+ My forest-brook along;
+ When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow,
+ And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,
+ That eats the she-wolf's young."
+
+ "Dear Lord! it hath a fiendish look--
+ (The Pilot made reply)
+ I am a-feared"--"Push on, push on!"
+ Said the Hermit cheerily.
+
+ The boat came closer to the ship,
+ But I nor spake nor stirred;
+ The boat came close beneath the ship,
+ And straight a sound was heard.
+
+ Under the water it rumbled on,
+ Still louder and more dread:
+ It reached the ship, it split the bay;
+ The ship went down like lead.
+
+ Stunned by that loud and dreadful sound,
+ Which sky and ocean smote,
+ Like one that hath been seven days drowned
+ My body lay afloat;
+ But swift as dreams, myself I found
+ Within the Pilot's boat.
+
+ Upon the whirl, where sank the ship,
+ The boat spun round and round;
+ And all was still, save that the hill
+ Was telling of the sound.
+
+ I moved my lips--the Pilot shrieked
+ And fell down in a fit;
+ The holy Hermit raised his eyes,
+ And prayed where he did sit.
+
+ I took the oars: the Pilot's boy,
+ Who now doth crazy go,
+ Laughed loud and long, and all the while
+ His eyes went to and fro.
+ "Ha! ha!" quoth he, "full plain I see,
+ The Devil knows how to row."
+
+ And now, all in my own countree,
+ I stood on the firm land!
+ The Hermit stepped forth from the boat,
+ And scarcely he could stand.
+
+ "O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!"
+ The Hermit crossed his brow.
+ "Say quick," quoth he, "I bid thee say--
+ What manner of man art thou?"
+
+ Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched
+ With a woeful agony,
+ Which forced me to begin my tale;
+ And then it left me free.
+
+ Since then, at an uncertain hour,
+ That agony returns;
+ And till my ghastly tale is told,
+ This heart within me burns.
+
+ I pass, like night, from land to land;
+ I have strange power of speech;
+ That moment that his face I see,
+ I know the man that must hear me:
+ To him my tale I teach.
+
+ What loud uproar bursts from that door!
+ The wedding-guests are there:
+ But in the garden-bower the bride
+ And bride-maids singing are:
+ And hark the little vesper bell,
+ Which biddeth me to prayer!
+
+ O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been
+ Alone on a wide wide sea:
+ So lonely 'twas, that God himself
+ Scarce seemed there to be.
+
+ O sweeter than the marriage-feast,
+ 'Tis sweeter far to me,
+ To walk together to the kirk
+ With a goodly company!--
+
+ To walk together to the kirk,
+ And all together pray,
+ While each to his great Father bends,
+ Old men, and babes, and loving friends,
+ And youths and maidens gay!
+
+ Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
+ To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
+ He prayeth well, who loveth well
+ Both man and bird and beast.
+
+ He prayeth best, who loveth best
+ All things both great and small;
+ For the dear God who loveth us
+ He made and loveth all.
+
+ The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
+ Whose beard with age is hoar,
+ Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest
+ Turned from the bridegroom's door.
+
+ He went like one that hath been stunned,
+ And is of sense forlorn:
+ A sadder and a wiser man,
+ He rose the morrow morn.
+
+
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