The phrase is "albatross around my neck" is found in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the...
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) the titular mariner shoots the albatross, which is regarded as an act that will curse the ship, so sailor's companions induce...