Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, The

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean."   Described by his friend Charles Lamb as "an archangel slightly damaged," Coleridge was deemed a towering genius by many of his contemporaries, and one who, in conversation, had no equal. Fa...