From Dore's illustrations to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Gerald Metcalfe's frontispiece for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poems (1907).

"A tongue of pale blue flame shivered on the truck of the mast," from Ia by Q. [A. T. Quiller-Couch], 1896.

"Again he raised the relic to his lips; the crew of the vessel crumbled into skeletons."  From The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat and illustrated by H. R. Millar, 1896.

An illustration from Laughing Ann by Alan Patrick Herbert (1925).

From In a Sea Bird's Nest by Frances Clare, 1896.

An illustration from The Fate of Fenella (1892).  The caption reads: "He was awakened by the sound of oars."

An illustration from an 1881 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "I find such quantities of strange toys about the house."

An illustration from an 1877 issue of Little Wide Awake magazine.

An illustration from The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story by H Rider Haggard (1911).  The caption reads: "My! Isn't she a beauty?"

An illustration from Gentlemen All and Merry Companions by Ralph Wilhelm Bergengren (1922).  The caption reads: "There was a long, white flash in the moonlight."

An illustration from an 1889 issue of Puck magazine.

An illustration from an 1868 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from an 1849 issue of Punch magazine.

"I could have sworn I heard a violin playing 'The Last Rose of Summer.' In waltz time, no less."
—Eugenia Riley, Waltz in Time (1997)