DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
The floating bridge of dreams.
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
Poem
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
RONSARD: LA FRANCIADE, 1572.
Penny Readings.
The chimney sweep
Edo period (1615 1868)
DAGUERREOTYPE, 1854.
Siyawush and Afrasiyab play polo; recto: text circa 1590-1600
Illustration by Alphonse Mucha from "Rama" a poem in three acts by Paul Verola. ca.1898. Mucha (1860 1939). was a Czech Art Nouveau painter
DAGUERREOTYPE: 1843.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
After the illustration by Florence Anderson entitled Boadicea and the Druid, from the poem Boadicea by William Cowper
Republican collection of poetry.
Mary Howitt.
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
Diana and Endymion
ABOLITIONIST SONG, c1843.
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
RONSARD: WORKS, 1584.
Tiberius Psalter
JOHN BROWN (1800-1859).
CHINESE POEM, 1187.
probably 1810s
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1553.
ROSNARD: LE BOCAGE, 1554.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1555.
FRANKLIN: ALPHABET.
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The flower girl and the undertaker, 19th C illustration
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
The Wind in a Frolic.
POE: THE RAVEN.
VALENTINE'S DAY CARD.
HERBERT: THE CHURCH PORCH.
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
Evolution satire 'Monkeyana', 1861
Blind women looks out of her window.
ca. 1820s
Japan
The Courting.
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
Bamboo and Poem
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
中国文字
Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856
FURY SAID TO A MOUSE, 1866.
SPENSER: FAERIE QUEENE.
James Beattie (1735-1803)
Duel 1925
King Lear 1604
Illustration on the theme of war from, Poems of pleasure By Ella Wheeler Wilcox, illustration by Dudley tenant 1920
Merchant of Venice 1597
Hamlet 1600
Chanson de geste, historical illustration
Pittacus of Mytilene, Greek general
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
And so she pines, and so she died forlorn, imploring for her Basil to the lasaint Illustration to the poem Isabella, or The Pot of Basil by John Keats
William Gifford, British poet and editor
The old man at death's gate, illustration
Francesco Petrarca.
A scene from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'.
Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
Dr
19th century
Three Poems
Two Poems
EARL OF SHAFTESBURY
The Barefoot Boy.
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep
She dwells with beauty, beauty that must die
While her robes flaunted with daffodils
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
DAGUERREOTYPE, 1843. Daguerreotype of an unidentified woman, c1843.
Poem on Growing Old
Poem Written after Rain
Poem to Xu Qianzhi
Poem on Lanzhou
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
Paolo and Francesca
William Shakespeare
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar
Extract from Lycidas, written in 1637
Our Wherry Waits.
Poem in Seven-syllable Meter
Poem in Seven-Syllable Meter
Illustration For The Poem The Passionate Pilgrim By William Shakespeare
Illustration for the poem 'The March of the Left'
1810s
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Dead, by Rudyard Kipling
Govert Bidloo, Dutch anatomist
Satire on gluttony, 17th century
Boris Pasternak.
RONSARD: ODES, 1550.
RONSARD: EPITHALAME, 1549.
Rhyme written on a speechbubble
Edward Lear in 1881
WHITTIER: SNOW-BOUND
POE: ULALUME, 1847.
A Lady About to Write a Poem
COLERIDGE: MARINER.
Edmond Rostand.
Coventry Patmore.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
ELIOT: FOUR QUARTETS.
W.H. AUDEN: POEMS, 1930.
BYRON: MANFRED, 1816-17.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 1925
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Sailed off in a wooden shoe 1925
Sailing the Wooden Shoe by Moonlight 1925
WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLE
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).
The Children of the Poor (Les Enfants Pauvres) - The Ragged Babes That Weep.
Timon of Athens 1607
Henry V 1613
JAPAN: SCHOLARS.
A camel.
Elephant.
MASEFIELD: SEA FEVER, 1902.
DAGUERREOTYPE, 1850.
ca. 1814
Calligraphy: Poem
Edmund Spenser reading one of his poems.
ARIOSTO: ORLANDO FURIOSO.
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
Nagasaki atomic bomb artwork
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
Bias of Priene, Greek philosopher
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
Froissart presenting his book of love poems to Richard II in 1395
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
Wright's theory of the universe, 1750
A mercury box used to develop daguerreotype photographs.
vol. 1
vol. 1)
from the series History of Kamakura (Kamakura shi)
from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jo)
from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jo
Album of Eighty-eight Prints from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu)
Illustration for the Poem 'Wine' by Charles Pierre Baudelaire