Verses Collection (#2)

Jacques Delille - 5
Abbe JACQUES DELILLE French writer, Academician - this painting was made while Delille was reciting his verses, you may be interested to know. Date: 1738 - 1813

Hugh Crompton
HUGH CROMPTON Unsuccessful poet who emigrated to Ireland and was never afterwards heard of : he left behind some indifferent verses, some of them coarse. Date: CIRCA 1787

CLEOBULUS One of the Seven Sages of Greece, famous for the beautiful shape of his body. He wrote some verses, and was presumably pretty bright. Date: 694 - 564 BCE

Claudian, Latin Poet
CLAUDIUS CLAUDIANUS Boot-licking Latin poet, born in Alexandria, went to Italy where panegyrics honouring royals and propaganda verses earned their due rewards. Date: ? - CIRCA 370

New Year card in the shape of a folding screen, depicting an artist with a palette and a set of verses. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Francis Beaumont / Evans
FRANCIS BEAUMONT English dramatist Wrote commendatory verses for the plays of Ben Jonson Date: 1584 - 1616

The Little Damozel by Monckton Hoffe
Promotional postcard for the Little Damozel by Monckton Hoffe. The Little Damozel by Monckton Hoffe. First produced at the Wyndhams Theatre, 21st October 1909

Father Christmas and pudding on a Christmas card, with two poems: The Collector, and The Pudding That Cut Away. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas and New Year card with seasonal verses
Christmas and New Year card in green, gold and red (inside pages) with leaf design and two seasonal verses. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

New Year card in gold and silver, with a seasonal poem. Date: circa 1890s

White flowers on a Christmas card, with verses from a carol, Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Date: circa 1890s

Mauve and blue flowers on a Christmas card, with a seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Spring flowers on a Christmas card, with a seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Bird and flowers on a Christmas card, with a seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Robins in the ice and snow on a Christmas card
Robins sitting on branches in the ice and snow on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Owl on crescent moon on a Christmas card
Owl sitting on a crescent moon on a Christmas card, with two large feathers and a seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Birds and stockings on a Christmas card
A little child looks up at a line of birds on a tree branch with their stockings waiting for gifts on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Birds and flowers on a Christmas card, with seasonal verses. Date: circa 1890s

Suffrage Songsheet N. U. W. S. S
Suffrage Songsheet N.U.W.S.S. Suffrage songs raised the roof of the Royal Albert hall at the meeting held on Suffrage Saturday, 13th June 1908. Includes verses by H

Fall In - words of Harold Begbie, reproduced from The Daily Chronicle. Centrepiece of a bugler, together with the four verses of the song in each corner. Outer edge framed with flags of the Allies

French and German Jewish soldiers celebrating Yom Kippur
Kerchief printed in red and black with scene of French and German Jewish soldiers in the Franco-Prussian war celebrating Yom Kippur at an open air servicebefore Metz in 1870

Plate inscribed with parodic verses, WW1
Plate inscribed Here with a loaf of bread, beneath the bow. A muttered curse, but ne er a whine, and thou - beside me, singing in the wilderness. The wilderness is paradise, enow

Gautier Photo
THEOPHILE GAUTIER French poet in his garden at Neuilly, reading his verses to his wife and daughters. Date: 1811 - 1872

Isaac Watts
ISaC WATTS churchman and writer of moral and uplifting verses for the infant mind... Date: 1674 - 1748

Mistral Recites
The French Provencal poet MISTRAL recites his own verses in the Roman ruins at Saint- Remy. Date: 1868

Felicia Hemans - 4
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Popular writer of uplifting verses - The boy stood on the burning deck, The stately homes of England etc. Date: 1793 - 1835

Felicia Hemans - 3
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Popular writer of uplifting verses - The boy stood on the burning deck, The stately homes of England etc. Date: 1793 - 1835

Agnes Bulmer
AGNES BULMER (nee Collinson) English writer of religious verse, Wesleyan convert. Her The Messiahs Kingdom, of 14000 verses, may be the longest poem by a female. Date: 1775 - 1836

Hiding from bills and debt
A nursry verse wtih a grown up curse! The homeowner hides as various men he owes bills to come a knocking. Date: 1928- 1929

Revolution Allegorised
The extremely popular verses of Beranger express the sentiments of the French man and woman in the street : he is an ardent supporter of the Revolution. Date: circa 1791

Programme and two leaflets
A programme and two leaflets relating to shipwrecks: 1. Programme for a concert in aid of the survivors of RMS Titanic, taking place on 13 May 1912

Victoria Golden Jubilee
Queen Victorias Golden Jubilee commemorated in patriotic verses under the banner God Save the Queen

Imam at prayer inside the Ayasofya
Imam at prayer inside the famed Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) in Constantinople. Architects of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul were Anthemius of Tralles and Isadorus of Miletus

Felicia Hemans - 2
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Popular writer of uplifting verses - The boy stood on the burning deck, The stately homes of England etc. with her autograph

Louise Colet
LOUISE COLET (nee Revoil) French writer of the Romantic school - verses such as Ce qui est dans le coeur des femmes, and novels such as Les coeurs brises

Wagner / Score / Song
Score for a humorous song, dedicated to Louis Kraft, proprietor of the Hotel Prusse at Leipzig, in gratitude for an enjoyable stay

Stevenson. Poems
The Little Land

Stevenson / Poems / Foreign
Foreign Lands: " Up into the cherry tree Who should climb but little me? I held the trunk with both my hands, & looked abroad in foreign lands."

Stevenson / Poems / Hay-Loft
The Hay-loft: " Oh, what a joy to clamber there, Oh, what a place for play, "

Children / Water / Reflect
Looking-glass River: " We can see our coloured faces, Floating on the shaken pool"

Foreign Children: " Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanese, Don t you wish that you were me?"

Boys Heads to Bed
A young boy goes to bed with a candle

Girl Undressing / Bed 1905
Bed in Summer: " In winter I get up at night, & dress by yellow candle- light. In summer quite the other way; I have to go to bed by day."

Stevenson / Poems / Shadow
My Shadow: " I have a little shadow that goes in & out with me, & what can be the use of him is more than I can see."

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