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When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow

When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow

Illustrator: Willy Pogány

Watercolor

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

c. 1910

"I never saw aught like to them,
     Unless perchance it were

Brown skeletons of leaves that lag
     My forest-brook along:
When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow,
And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,
     That eats the she-wolf's young."

     -- 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].


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