"About, about, in reel and rout" by Willy Pogany for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

About, about, in reel and rout

Illustrator: Willy Pogány

Watercolor

6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches; with border: 7 1/2 x 5 1/16 inches

c. 1910

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.

-- Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

References

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Presented [Illustrated and decorated] by Willy Pogány. New York: George H. Doran Co., [c.1910].

Last modified 13 August 2004