Song dynasty (960 1279)
Southern Song dynasty (1127 1279)
Three Poems
Two Poems
Poem
Poem Written after Rain
Japan
Calligraphy: Poem
Poem for Hanwen
Poem on Growing Old
Two Poems in Five-character Regulated Verse
Poem in Seven-syllable Meter
Poem to Xu Qianzhi
Bamboo and Poem
Poem in Seven-Syllable Meter
Five Poems
Draft Poem for Seeing off Lin Zhun (1452 1527)
Poem Composed on Tiger Hill on Mankind's Day
A Lady About to Write a Poem
Northern Song dynasty (960 1127)
CHINA: GEESE & MOUNTAINS.
CHINA: RIVER SCENE.
CHINA: LANDSCAPE.
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami.
ca. 1820s
19th century
Edo period (1615 1868)
from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Chanson de geste, historical illustration
JAPAN: SCHOLARS.
Republican collection of poetry.
'Alexander at a Banquet'
CHINA: BUDDHA PREACHING.
Higurashi; Spider
from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
vol. 1
from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jo)
Painting of Tiger
vol. 1)
from the series History of Kamakura (Kamakura shi)
vol. 1: Duck and Scallions
from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jo
” from the Series An Array of Birds (Tori awase)
vol. 3)
and Pocket Sundial with Design of Calendar
from the series One Hundred poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
(Hasami-mushi)
imomushi
(batta); Praying Mantis (Toro or Kamakiri)
(Mukade)
PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896)
MALLARME: MANUSCRIPT, c1865.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
Poem from the Devonshire Manuscript by Sir Thomas Wyatt, also spelled Wiat
HUGO: LES CONTEMPLATIONS.
Courtesans in an Iris Garden
CHINESE POEM, 1187.
Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856
Ming dynasty (1368 1644)
CHINA: NURSING OF BUDDHA.
Paper Wasp (Hachi); Hairy Caterpillar (Kemushi)
The floating bridge of dreams.
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel.
Illumination of the Queen of France, Isabel of Bavaria and the wife of Charles VI in her chambers
Blind women looks out of her window.
probably 1818 (Year of the Tiger)
ca. 1810s
probably 1816 (Year of the Rat)
ca. 1827
early to mid-1810s
ca. 1805 10
probably 1810s
1810s
ca. 1814
dated 1823
probably 1817
Album of Eighty-eight Prints from the series Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Ogura nazorae hyakunin isshu)
The Marital Bliss of Nala and Damayanti: Folio from a Nala-Damayanti Series
Poem on Lanzhou
ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)
ROBERT LEE FROST (1874-1963).
Extract from Lycidas, written in 1637
After the original MS by Samuel Taylor Coleridge of the poem Hymn Before Sunrise, written in 1802
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
ABOLITIONIST SONG, c1843.
CHINA: SCROLL PAINTING.
Wild Geese in Winter
River Hamlet
Landscape with Rapids
Squash
Landscape with Drunken General and Servant
Landscape with Temple
Fisherman Returning Home
Grasshopper on Rock
Flowers and Bees
Learner and Teacher.
CHINA: COURT LIFE.
BYRON: MANFRED, 1816-17.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Francesco Petrarca.
A scene from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'.
Paolo and Francesca
Bias of Priene, Greek philosopher
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
Evolution satire 'Monkeyana', 1861
CHINA: CHOU EMPEROR.
CHINA: SILK MANUFACTURE.
YEN HUI (521-490 B.C.).
Qing dynasty (1644 1911)
DAGUERREOTYPE POEM, 1843.
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
The distressed poet.
Mary Howitt.
FRANKLIN: ALPHABET.
Woodcut depicting a scene from the poem of 'Orlando Furioso' by Ludovico Ariosto
Diana and Endymion
Penny Readings.
Boris Pasternak.
Decorative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Christoph Martin Wieland.
The Courting.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
The chimney sweep
Pittacus of Mytilene, Greek general
Govert Bidloo, Dutch anatomist
Satire on gluttony, 17th century