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THE CREW OF THE SKELETON SHIP.
"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?
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....
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy....
The naked hulk alongside came,
And the twain were casting dice."
(The Ancient Mariner).
And the twain were casting dice."
(The Ancient Mariner).
A DAY WITH
SAMUEL
TAYLOR
COLERIDGE
BY MAY BYRON
LONDON
HODDER & STOUGHTON
HODDER & STOUGHTON
In the same Series.
Tennyson.
Wordsworth.
Browning.
Burns.
Byron.
Keats.
E. B. Browning.
Whittier.
Rossetti.
Shelley.
Longfellow.
Scott.
Whitman.
Morris.
Tennyson.
Wordsworth.
Browning.
Burns.
Byron.
Keats.
E. B. Browning.
Whittier.
Rossetti.
Shelley.
Longfellow.
Scott.
Whitman.
Morris.
A DAY WITH COLERIDGE.
IN a beautiful part of beautiful Somerset, where the "soft orchard andcottage scenery" is dimpled between blue hillslopes, where meadows andwoods and translucent streams compete with each other in charm,—in thelovely region of the Quantock hills, lies the quiet little market-villageof Nether Stowey. About sunrise on a May morning of 1790, a young manawoke in a little wayside cottage there: and, resolutely thrusting backhis natura
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