Saturday, February 09, 2013

Poetry Break: Coleridge


Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

"God save thee, ancient mariner! 
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!--
Why lookst thou so?" "With my crossbow 
I shot the albatross.

2 comments:

CincyCat said...

Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.

Michael Wade said...

CincyCat,

Is it not amazing how well we remember such lines?

Michael