She steadies with upright keel!

Willy Pogány

Watercolor

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

c. 1910

From Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more!
     Hither to work us weal;
Without a breeze, without a tide,
     She steadies with upright keel!



  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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