O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part IV; Exact wording and attribution checked. Spoken by The Ancient Mariner, a fictional character, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part IV. Original poem in E. H. Coleridge’s 1912 scholarly edition; editorial line numbers and italic markers omitted.
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part IV
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