And while the blast blew strong and loud,
The clear moon mark'd the ghastly crowd,
Where the green billows play'd.
And then above the haunted hut
The curlews screaming hover'd;
And the low door, with furious roar,
The frothy breakers cover'd.
For in the fisherman's lone shed
A murder'd man was laid,
With ten wide gashes in his head,
And deep was made his sandy bed
Where the green billows play'd.
A shipwreck'd mariner was he,
Doom'd from his home to sever
Who swore to be through wind and sea
Firm and undaunted ever!
And when the wave resistless roll'd,
As noted previously Robinson’s poem is strikingly similar to Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Robinson is this poem chose to completely cut off the mariner’s ties to his home and essentially kills him off in the poem.
The Haunted Beach