Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

"The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

"Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

"An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

"Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner