Diana and Endymion
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
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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Francesco Petrarca.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
Mary Howitt.
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
Boris Pasternak.
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Illustration of John Keats' poem 'Endymion', 1818
Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550) by Hans Holbein
Joanna Baillie
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Dead, by Rudyard Kipling
Timon of Athens 1607
Edmond Rostand.
Coventry Patmore.
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
Alexander Pushkin.
Paolo and Francesca
The Courting.
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
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
James Beattie (1735-1803)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
The Barefoot Boy.
Apollo and Daphne.
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling
Robert Burns.
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
Alfred de Musset.
高村光太郎
RONSARD: ODES, 1550.
RONSARD: EPITHALAME, 1549.
ARIOSTO: ORLANDO FURIOSO.
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
MYTHOLOGY: NYMPHS.
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
Ramavataram, popularly referred to as Kamba Ramayanam.
William Gifford, British poet and editor
The floating bridge of dreams.
Thomas Parnell.
The flower girl and the undertaker, 19th C illustration
SKELTON: PHILLIP SPARROW.
Elephant.
A scene from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'.
Edmund Spenser reading one of his poems.
Perseus Frees Andromeda.
Illustration by W Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Cities, by Rudyard Kipling
The distressed poet.
Diana and Actaeon
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).
Scene from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr's poem 'The Comet'.
The visit from the madwoman from Charlotte Bront's 'Jane Eyre'.
The chimney sweep
MUSE: ERATO.
Froissart presenting his book of love poems to Richard II in 1395
Polymnia, Muse of Eloquence
Portrait of John Keats
Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley
POE: THE RAVEN.
Perseus and Andromeda.
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
A camel.
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821).
Walter Scott.
Count Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist and poet
After the illustration by Florence Anderson entitled Boadicea and the Druid, from the poem Boadicea by William Cowper
Oliver Goldsmith (1724-1774)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Poet
King Lear 1604
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
Penny Readings.
MYTHOLOGY: ORPHEUS.
The Abduction of Helen.
Detail from the painting 'Primavera' depicting the Goddess Flora by Sandro Botticelli
Theophile Gautier.
Republican collection of poetry.
Saturn Devouring His Son.
ULYSSES AND PENELOPE.
RONSARD: WORKS, 1584.
Jose de Espronceda.
Page decoration from John Gray's Spiritual Poems by Charles de Sousy Ricketts
Louisa May Alcott.
Merchant of Venice 1597
Alfred Tennyson, poet, illustration
Head of Oinomaos.
Diana and her Companions.
HOMER - 8th century BC Greek epic poet.
Venus statue.
The Fable of Helen of troy, from Physique sacree, ou Histoire-naturelle de la Bible, 1732-1737, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 1733), a Swiss scholar born at Zurich
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941).
Bacchus.
FRANKLIN: ALPHABET.
Chanson de geste, historical illustration
A Bavarian Maud Muller, raking a Meadow with Hay.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod 1925
W.H. AUDEN: POEMS, 1930.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Sailed off in a wooden shoe 1925
BYRON: MAZEPPA.
Orpheus, Woodcut Engraving from the Original 1863 Painting by Francois-Louis Francais, The Masterpieces of French Art by Louis Viardot, Published by Gravure Goupil et Cie, Paris, 1882, Gebbie & Co., Philadelphia, 1883
RONSARD: LA FRANCIADE, 1572.
Sarpedon, Photogravure Print from the Original Sculpture by Charles Octave Levy, The Masterpieces of French Art by Louis Viardot, Published by Gravure Goupil et Cie, Paris, 1882, Gebbie & Co., Philadelphia, 1883
AMAZON.
Thomas Eakins.
POUND: PISAN CANTOS.
Alfred Tennyson, lst Baron Tennyson (1809-1893)
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
DIANA OF EPHESUS.
AMAZON WARRIOR.
CLIO, MUSE OF HISTORY.
Odysseus and the cyclops Polyphemus, 19th century
Psyche at the throne of Venus.
GORGON MONSTER.
Listening to The Old Curiosity Shop in the West
The Wind in a Frolic.
HERBERT: THE CHURCH PORCH.
Blind women looks out of her window.
Invading Cupid's Realm.
John Keats, 1795 1821
Learner and Teacher.
Mazeppa, Byron's poem published 1819
The Children of the Poor (Les Enfants Pauvres) - The Ragged Babes That Weep.
Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologist
Orpheus
Standing bowl depicting The Judgement of Paris
HOMER: THE ODYSSEY.
Marble Statue of Atlanta 1st Century B.C.
Hamlet 1600
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Dante's Inferno, 19th Century illustration
Bias of Priene, Greek philosopher
MYTHOLOGY: LEANDER.
VALENTINE'S DAY CARD.
Illustration for the Poem 'Wine' by Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Saint George Fighting The Dragon, Perseus Delivering Andromeda.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Charles Lamb with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
William Shakespeare