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The rock shone bright, the kirk no less

The rock shone bright, the kirk no less

Illustrator: Willy Pogány

Photographic process reproduction of pen and ink drawing

6 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches

1910

The rock shone bright, the kirk no less
     That stands above the rock:
The moonlight steeped in silentness
     The steady weathercock.

And the bay was white with silent light,
     Till rising from the same,
Full many shapes, that shadows were,
     In crimson colours came.

-- 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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