My body lay afloat

Willy Pogány

c. 1910

Watercolor

1 3/4 x 3 inches

Scanned image and text by George P. Landow

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The lines illustrated in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The ship went down like lead.

Stunned by that loud and dreadful sound,
     Which sky and ocean smote,
Like one that has been seven days drowned,
     My body lay afloat;
But swift as dreams, myself I found
     Within the Pilot's boat.

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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14 November 2009