For Food or Play

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Sailors stand on the deck of a ship, watching an albatross fly over their heads

And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo.

Artist

Name:: Metcalfe, Gerald Fenwick
Dates:: fl. 1890-1930
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: The poems of Coleridge
Author:: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Publisher:: London, New York: John Lane, n.d. [1907]
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Sailors are gathered on the deck of a ship, watching an albatross fly over their heads.

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