ARGUMENT. How a Ship, having first sailed to the Equator, was driven by Storms, to the cold Country towards the South Pole; how the Ancient Mariner cruelly, and in contempt of the laws of hospitality, killed a Sea-bird; and how he was followed by many and strange Judgements ; and in what manner he came back to his own Country. The ANCIENT MARINER. A POET's REVERIE. I. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three : "By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye "Now wherefore stoppest me? "The Bridegroom's doors are open'd wide "And I am next of kin ; "The Guests are met, the Feast is set, "May'st hear the merry din. |