Part I: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner By S.T. Coleridge
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a lyrical ballad about a mysterious sea-faring wedding guest who tells a long story of a dangerous journey.
He holds him with his glittering eye—
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years' child:
The Mariner hath his will.