The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
English poetry -- 19th century
_Her_ lips were red, _her_ looks were free,
_Her_ locks were as yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
And she was far liker Death than he;
Her flesh made the still air cold.
L. B. 1800.
[196] casting] playing L. B. 1798, 1800.
[197] The game is done, I've, I've won S. L. 1817, 1828, 1839, 1834,
1844. The restoration of the text of 1798 and 1800 dates from 1852.
[198] whistles] whistled L. B. 1798, 1800.
[Between 198-218]
A gust of wind sterte up behind
And whistled thro' his bones;
Thro the { holes of his eyes and the hole of his mouth
{ hole L. B. 1802, 1805
Half-whistles and half-groans.
With never a whisper in the Sea
Off darts the Spectre-ship;
While clombe above the Eastern bar
The horned Moon with one bright Star
Almost atween the tips.
[Almost between the tips. L. B. 1800.]
One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O Stranger! to me)
Each turn'd his face with a ghastly pang
And curs'd me with his ee.
Four times fifty living men,
With never a sigh or groan,
L. B. 1798, 1800.
[Between 198-9] A gust of wind . . . half groans. S. L. (Page 15 erase
the second stanza. Errata_, S. L., p. [xi].)
[Between 201-12]
With never a whisper on the main
Off shot the spectre ship;
And stifled words and groans of pain
Mix'd on each murmuring} lip.
trembling}
And we look'd round, and we look'd up,
And fear at our hearts, as at a cup,
The Life-blood seem'd to sip--
The sky was dull, and dark the night,
The helmsman's face by his lamp gleam'd bright,
From the sails the dews did drip--
Till clomb above the Eastern Bar,
The horned Moon, with one bright star
Within its nether tip.
Undated MS. correction of S. T. C. (first published 1893).
[208] dew] dews S. L. 1817.
[209] clomb] clombe S. L. 1817, 1828.
PART IV] IV. L. B. 1798, 1800: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part the
Fourth S. L. 1828, 1829.
[220] The] Their L. B. 1798, 1800.
[224] ancyent Marinere L. B. 1798.
[233-4]
Alone on the wide wide sea;
And Christ would take no pity on
L. B. 1798, 1800.
[238] And a million, million slimy things L. B. 1798, 1800.
[242] rotting] eldritch L. B. 1798: ghastly L. B. 1800.
[249] And] Till L. B. 1798, 1800.
[251] load] cloud S. L. (for _cloud_ read _load_. _Errata_, S. L., p.
[xi]).
[254] Ne rot, ne reek L. B. 1798.
[260] the curse] a curse 1828, 1829.
[268] Like morning frosts yspread L. B. 1798.
PART V] V. L. B. 1798, 1800: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part the
Fifth S. L. 1828, 1829.
[294] To Mary-queen L. B. 1798, 1800. given] yeven L. B. 1798.
[300] awoke] woke (a pencilled correction in 1828, ? by S. T. C.).
[309] The roaring wind! it roar'd far off L. B. 1798.
[313] burst] bursts L. B. 1798.
[315] were] are L. B. 1798.
[317] The stars dance on between. L. B. 1798.
[317-24]
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