1. Eco (prima persona, plurale femminile)

The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.

About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch’s oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white.

And some in dreams assured were
Of the spirit that plagued us so;
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
from the land of mist and snow.

The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around :
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound.

Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrick;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.

S.T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner