Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
The Courting.
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
A scene from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'.
Morella
The assignation
King Pest
Lady Madeline of Usher
The murders in the Rue Morgue
The masque of the red death
The pit and the pendulum
The black cat
The premature burial
Cask of Amontillado
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
On a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep
Francesco Petrarca.
Lord Brougham's railway nightmare.
Illustration for the Poem 'Wine' by Charles Pierre Baudelaire
A mother reassuring her son.
THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809).
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
James Beattie (1735-1803)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
Thomas Parnell.
A camel.
Elephant.
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
Illustration For The Poem The Passionate Pilgrim By William Shakespeare
Learner and Teacher.
Nightmare.
The Nightmare, 1781.
The night mare.
ANDREW JACKSON CARTOON.
Colour etching entitled 'The Nightmare'.
Dr
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
After the illustration by Florence Anderson entitled Boadicea and the Druid, from the poem Boadicea by William Cowper
Oliver Goldsmith (1724-1774)
Mary Howitt.
Diana and Endymion
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
The Nightmare
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
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
POPE: RAPE OF THE LOCK.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 1925
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Sailed off in a wooden shoe 1925
Sailing the Wooden Shoe by Moonlight 1925
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
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).
Edmond Rostand.
Coventry Patmore.
Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
Fan-shaped image showing counsellor for Emperor Yo-zei (869-949) seated right, delivering poem to poetess Ono Komachi (c825-c900)
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
Paolo and Francesca
The death of Minnehaha Illustration by Currier & Ives. 1867
Technical support, satirical illustration
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The visit from the madwoman from Charlotte Bront's 'Jane Eyre'.
The Ancient Mariner.
Illustration for the poem 'The March of the Left'
Voices of the Night.
GRANDVILLE: NIGHTMARE.
GRANDVILLE: AUTRE MONDE.
Penny Readings.
POE: THE RAVEN.
Night, silhouettes, blurred
Dark staircase with light coming from doorway, black and white
William Gifford, British poet and editor
Fantasy 11
'A Medieval nightmare', artwork
The Mad Hatter reciting his nonsense poem Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat
The Great Comet of 1843.
The Great Comet of 1853.
The Great Comet of 1811.
The Great Comet of 1882.
Nightmare, conceptual illustration
The floating bridge of dreams.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1553.
ROSNARD: LE BOCAGE, 1554.
ROSNARD: TITLE PAGE, 1555.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Psychological distress, conceptual illustration
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Cities, by Rudyard Kipling
CHRISTMAS DREAM, 1871.
Illustration on the theme of war from, Poems of pleasure By Ella Wheeler Wilcox, illustration by Dudley tenant 1920
Edward Lear in 1881
The Barefoot Boy.
Untired she read the legend page, of Holy Mark, from youth to age
She dwells with beauty, beauty that must die
While her robes flaunted with daffodils
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
高村光太郎
Boris Pasternak.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Robert Burns.
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
Alfred Tennyson, lst Baron Tennyson (1809-1893)
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
JAPAN: SCHOLARS.
Higurashi; Spider
from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
(Hasami-mushi)
imomushi
(batta); Praying Mantis (Toro or Kamakiri)
(Mukade)
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
A Young man falling asleep while reading.
All's Well That Ends Well.
DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr (1809-94), American Doctor, Educator, Poet, & Author, Portrait, Engraving, 1876
Medieval astronomical charts, artwork
Illustration of John Keats' poem 'Endymion', 1818
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Christina Rossetti.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tiberius Psalter
The Wind in a Frolic.
Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West
Blind women looks out of her window.
HERBERT: THE CHURCH PORCH.
The old man at death's gate, illustration
DAUMIER CARTOON: COMET
Jupiter and Antiope.
The Comet In The Southern Hemisphere, As Viewed From The Wellington, In Queen Charlotte's Sound, 1880
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:/Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care
A husband and wife getting ready for bed.
The distressed poet.
SHAKESPEARE: POEMS.
William Roscoe.
Father William balancing an eel on his nose
Father William having eaten the Goose
Father William does a back somersalt
Father William standing on his head
Blood letting