Who wrote the poem with the line, “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink?
The poem is ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge One of a set of engraved metal plate illustrations by Gustave Dor?: the Mariner up on the mast in a storm.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1797?1799 and published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads (1798). The modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 which featured a “gloss”. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry, and the beginnings of British Romantic literature. Plot summary The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the supernatural events experienced by a mariner on a long sea voyage. The Mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony, and begins to recite his story. The Wedding-Guest’s reaction turns from bemusement and impatience to fascination as the Mariner’s story progresses. The Mariner’s tal
