Which Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem opens Lyrical Ballads?

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William Wordsworth English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, portrait by Henry Edridge, 1804; at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, England.

The poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that opens the 1798 collection Lyrical Ballads is "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."12

Placing this work at the beginning of the volume was intended to provide a context for the sense of wonder in common life that characterizes many of William Wordsworth's contributions to the collection.1