July 16, 2008


And the Albatross begins to be avenged.

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.

(From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Grasa de Pantera Classics Illustrated edition.)

posted by Sheila Ryan in crime, literature, mysticism, nature, poetry 

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2 Responses to “And the Albatross begins to be avenged.”

  1. Cooper Renner on July 17th, 2008 at 11:49 am

    Maybe your photo edition of the Rime could become for the 21st century what Doré’s engraved edition is for the 19th.

  2. Sheila Ryan on July 17th, 2008 at 11:53 am

    Well, that would be something, wouldn’t it?

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