...As in a gentle weather ; 'Twas night, calm night, the moon was high ; The dead men stood together. All fixed on me their stony eyes, That in the moon...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Its path was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek Like a...

...turn them up to pray. The curse is finally And now this spell was snapt: once more expiated. . • 1 viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze — On...

...this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw 445 Of what had else been seen — Like one, that on a...turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; 450 Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind...

...once more finally expi- ' r ated. I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw 445 Of what had else been seen— / .^ Like one, that...turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; 450 Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind...

...with frenzied haste; and every now and then she would stop and shudder, and then race wildly on,— "Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." And so all through the ride, because the girl's shame and fear haunted her more and more, she became...

...which is dark, evil or otherworldly. Coleridge expresses it in these lines from The Ancient Mariner: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. This is the encounter with the unconscious, which at first seems destructive and terrifying. The 'black...

...unknown reality, whereas now it is caused by fear of something he believes to have experienced himself, Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend As P. Magnuson puts it, 'The mariner is haunted by his fear of the return of the nightmare'.60 This...

...of a more prosperous form of labor, the narrator initially portrays him as an unregenerate mariner "that on a lonesome road/ Doth walk in fear and dread,...knows, a frightful fiend/ Doth close behind him tread" (Rime of the Ancient Mariner 6:445-51). The demon which dogs his heels is the spirit of a perverted...

...step of his way. Again, it was Coleridge who gave the best expression to their common predicament: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.91 90. Wordsworth, "Prelude" 1799, 1805, 1850, p. 535. The Emergence of Romanticism in Germany...

...Coleridge repeatedly represents the Mariner's animus as a "frightful fiend" (450). The Mariner is thus Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. (446-51) The Pilot, too, deems the returning ghost-ship "fiendish" (538), and several stanzas later...