The Ancient Mariner

It is an ancient Mariner, 
And he stoppeth one of three. 
"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, 
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?"

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) , first verse of "Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by John Corigliano (1938-) , "The Ancient Mariner", 1959, published c1981, from Petit Fours (A Song Cyclette), no. 4.

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