"My body lay afloat" by Willy Pogany for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

My body lay afloat

Illustrator: Willy Pogány

Watercolor

1 3/4 x 3 inches

c. 1910

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.

-- 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