...into his corner, and fell into the light slumber of age. Harry thought of the Ancient Mariner — " I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange...his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach." When they reached Salisbury, they drove to the White Hart Hotel. Who has not...

...begin my tale; And then it left me free. Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: 665 And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within...power of speech; That moment that his face I see, 670 I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach. What loud uproar bursts from that door!...

...hermit as it sinks. We are returned to the present day with the mariner explaining to the wedding guest: 'Since then, at an uncertain hour, / That agony returns:...ghastly tale is told, / This heart within me burns.' Coleridge makes the mariner express what he himself had felt for many years, speaking of everyone's...

...of mine was wrenched With a woful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale; And then it left me free. Since then, at an uncertain hour. That agony returns:...ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. It is interesting to compare Coleridge with another great English poet, Ted Hughes. In 1999 Ted Hughes...

...And ever and anon through out his future life an agony constraineth him to travel from land to land, Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, ,s, This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech;...

...But even more dramatic than this is the fever of the British imagination, the "uncertain hour" when "agony returns: / And till my ghastly tale is told, / This heart within me burns" (582-85). Coleridge was certainly nof alone in setting fever to poetry. In 1797, William Roscoe, a...

...to land, Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And tiU my ghastly tale is told, j8j This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land; I bave strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must bear me: 390...

...Caesar. Cesare. August life, august death. Selfish stronzo. Cretinous egotist. Pathetic, cherished ass. And till my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. — Coleridge Cool now, old heart; your tale is told. That uncertain hour — predicted, awaited, arrived...

...Barbara Johnson attempts to read, or to allow herself to be read by, ST Coleridge's uncanny mariner: 'I pass, like night, from land to land; / I have strange...his face I see, / I know the man that must hear me: / To him my tale I teach.'30 Johnson argues that what tends to get repressed in teaching is 'the very...

...evocation of the event that marked the soul of Levi, and of the perennial wounds kept open by memory. Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns:...my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. This verse has a special meaning in Levi's mind. We find it again at the opening of his last, fundamental...