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Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue

The Devil's Thoughts

Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment

Lewti; or, The Circassian Love-Chaunt

Love

90

The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution

Lines Composed in a Concert-Room

97

ΙΟΙ

To a Young Lady, on her Recovery from a Fever

To a Friend who had Declared his Intention of Writing

Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni

Fancy in Nubibus; or, the Poet in the Clouds

The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-Tree. A Lament

On my Joyful Departure from the same City

Ne plus ultra

Alice du Clos ; or, The Forked Tongue. A Ballad

-"E Cœlo descendit yvwel geavтdv."—Juvenal

Translation of a Paraphrase of the Gospels

The Ancient Mariner (Original Version)

Notes

Fall of Robespierre

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Preface to Dramatic Works

Remorse. A Tragedy. In Five Acts

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The Piccolomini; or, The First Part of Wallenstein. A

Drama. Translated from Schiller.

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The Death of Wallenstein. A Tragedy in Five Acts

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 choose but hear;

And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.

* See Note.

An ancient Mariner meeteth three gallants bidden to a wedding feast, and detaineth

one

The Wedding-Guest is spell-bound by the eye of the old seafaring man, and constrained to hear his tale.

A

"The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop

Below the kirk, below the hill,

Below the light-house top.

The Mariner The sun came up upon the left,

tells how the Out of the sea came he!

ship sailed southward

with a good

wind and fair weather, till it reached the line.

The Wedding-Guest heareth the bridal music;

And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea.

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

but the Ma-' The merry minstrelsy.

riner continueth his tale.

The ship drawn by a

storm toward the south

pole.

The land of ice, and of fearful

soundswhere no living

thing was to be seen.

The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,
Yet he cannot choose 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 us 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!