“Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.”

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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