← The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she; 🔊
← Alas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud) How fast she nears and nears! 🔊
← Are those her sails that glance in the Sun, Like restless gossamers? 🔊
← Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? 🔊
← And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate? 🔊
← Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. 🔊
← 'The game is done! I've won! I've won!' Quoth she, and whistles thrice. 🔊
← Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside— 🔊
← The Sun, right up above the mast, Had fixed her to the ocean: 🔊
← See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.' 🔊