In Coleridge's Ancient Mariner we meet the death aspect of the goddess...these lines come from the climax of the tale, where the mariner, the last survivor on a cursed and becalmed ship, plays dice with the goddess or witch. When she "whistles thrice" the winds begin to blow, and the ship may sail home.
Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.
The naked hulk alongside came,
And the twain were casting dice ;
'The game is done! I've won ! I've won !'
Quoth she, and whistles thrice.
There are multiple references to the goddess in these few lines. We have the goddess as Venus ruler of the seas and mistress of the winds. Her physical desciption is that of the northern or Celtic goddess, as in Graves' White Goddess, except that Graves is celebrating the goddess in the first and second parts of her relationship with men, namely as mother and lover, while Coleridge presents the third, that of the goddess as death. The word "thrice" is a further reference to her triplicity.