The Rime of the Ancient Mariner who are playing dice for the souls of the crew. With a roll of the dice, Death wins the lives of the crew members and Life-in-Death the life of the mariner, a prize she considers more valuable. Her name is a clue to the mariner's fate: he will endure a fate worse than death as punishment for his killing of the albatross. One by one, all of the crew members die, but the mariner lives on, seeing for seven days and nights the curse in the eyes of the crew's corpses, whose last expressions remain upon their faces. Eventually, this
Christabel (poem) becomes enchanted with Geraldine, ordering a grand procession to announce her rescue. The unfinished poem ends here. It is unclear when Coleridge began writing the poem which would become "Christabel". Presumably, he prepared it beginning in 1797. During this time, he had been working on several poems for "Lyrical Ballads", a book on which he collaborated with William Wordsworth. "Christabel" was not complete in time for the book's 1798 publication, though it did include "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". The first part of the poem was likely completed that year, however. He continued to work on Part II of