When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow

When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow

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:

"I never saw aught like to them,
     Unless perchance it were

Brown skeletons of leaves that lag
     My forest-brook along:
When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow,
And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,
     That eats the she-wolf's young."



  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    • Scanned image and text by George P. Landow

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