Poem Collection

Poster, Night Mail, quoting part of the poem by W H Auden written for and narrated in the documentary film of the same name (1936). circa 1930s

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
King Arthur welcomes the Green Knight into the Banqueting Hall and invites him to dismount and eat with the company

Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, sees his beloved Beatrice
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, best known for his long narrative poem, the Divine Comedy, sees his beloved Beatrice Portinari on the Lung Arno, Florence

Goblin Market by Pauline Baynes
Illustration by Pauline Baynes depicting a scene from Goblin Market, the poem by Christina Rossetti

Adlestrop Railway Station, Gloucestershire
The railway station at Adlestrop, Gloucestershire. Station staff stand on the platform while the Paddington-Worcester Express steams towards the station

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
The Green Knight rides over the bridge into Camelot Castle on New Years Day

The Owl and The Pussycat
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five pound note

Robin Redbreast
Poem by M. Nightingale about the robin, featuring a lovely decoration by Gladys M. Rees. Date: 1939

Ichthyosaurus as a museum piece
Cartoon of an Ichthyosaurus as a museum piece, in the Ballad of the Ichthyosaurus

Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941)

Stylish Horse Race by Victor Hicks
A stylised illustration showing an elegant lady leading a racehorse in the paddock

Programme design, Gilbert & Sullivan, Princess Ida, Savoy Theatre, London. A respectful operatic perversion of Tennysons " Princess" in Three Acts. circa 1880s

Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie - Kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play - Georgie Porgie ran away

The Quitter - Poem by Rob W Service
The Quitter. Poem by Rob W. Service illuminated with two vignettes On The Way Home and Home Sweet Home. C. Huggins

Christmas Day in the Workhouse
Illustration and opening verses of In the Workhouse: Christmas Day - better known as Christmas Day in the Workhouse, written by George R Sims in 1877

Whisky Drinking
Scottish Whisky drinkers : " Willie Brew d A Peck O Maut" - poem by Robert Burns

Bell Rock Lighthouse, near Arbroath, Scotland
View of Bell Rock Lighthouse, near Arbroath, Scotland. Bell Rock is also known as the Inchcape Rock (made famous by a poem by Robert Southey)

Ave Atque Vale by Aubrey Beardsley
Ave Atque Vale. (Hale and farewell) Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley to his own translation of Carmen Ci, a poem by Catullus. Date: 1896

Page from a poem book by Hafez-e Shirazi illustrated depicting a banquet. Persian art. Safavid period. Miniature Painting

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
Sir Gawain takes up the challenge. As instructed by the Green Knight, he swings the battleaxe and cuts off the Green Knights head. The head falls off and rolls towards the banqueting guests

Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, best known for his long narrative poem, the Divine Comedy

Gather ye roses while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. 20th century

Cover design for Narcisse by Nikolai Tcherepnin
Cover design for Narcisse, a mythological poem set to music by the Russian composer Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (1873-1945)

Poe / Poem / The Raven / C19Th
Quoth the raven, Nevermore

Odysseus returns to his wife Penelope
Odysseus returns to his wife, Penelope, and his dog, Argos

Poe / Poem / The Raven / C19Th
The dazed & melancholy man believes the raven will leave him, as his " hopes have flown before."

Night slid down. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem The Gardener s
Night slid down. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem The Gardeners Daughter. Date: c.1920

Face on the Barroom Floor, Teller House Bar, Colorado, USA
The Face on the Barroom Floor is a painting on the floor of the Teller House Bar in Central City, Colorado, United States. It was painted in 1936 by Herndon Davis. Date: circa 1936

The Lady of Shalott setting out on her boat for Camelot
Colour illustration of the Lady of Shalott setting out on her boat for Camelot

Joseph Berchoux - 2
JOSEPH BERCHOUX French poet who sang the praises of the culinary art in his poem La Gastronomie. Date: 1765 - 1839

Illustration, A Song of the English, Lighthouse
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

The NeedleWorker, WW1 knitting with Jessie Pope poem
Page from The Needle Worker from March 1915, advising readers on knitting for men and boys and featuring, The Knitting Song, a poem by Jessie Pope

Soviet propaganda poster from World War Two
Soviet propaganda poster, TASS Window no. 469. An heroic young female partisan resists the invading Germans. A patriotic poem by Vasyl Lebedev-Kumach appears below the image

Writing / Gray Poem
Part of the manuscript of his poem, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, inspired by a visit to Stoke Poges Churchyard, Bucks

Odysseus returns to his wife, Penelope

Napoleon Bonaparte crowning himself Emperor of France at Notre Dame, 1804. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor Syntax, T

Satires by Juvenal
Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis). 1st - 2nd centuries AD. Roman poet. Satires. Start of the First Satire. Leyden, 1532

Britain / 18th Century
A poem based on fact: a haughty lady in her carriage will not let a gentleman pass so he (and the rest on the street) walk through her carriage Date: 1751

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Forty Fine Ladies, with text by Patrick R Chalmers. The Huntsmans Story -- huntsmen, horses and hounds on a country road and crossing a field. Date: 1933

Illustration, A Song of the English, Thames Embankment
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Lyrics by Anne Boleyn
Words by Anne Boleyn entitled O Death Rock Me On Sleep accompanied by an illustratio of the ill-fated Queen looking rather tragic. Date: 1934

The Vision of Piers the Ploughman
Langland dreamed a wondrous dream. William Langland, in his 14th century poem, Piers Ploughman, falls asleep upon the Malvern Hills and dreams a dream in which he sees a fair field full of folk

Rosemary, Pansies, Fennel, Columbines, Rue, Daisy and Violets (Hamlet)

Miniature depicting Men and women dancing holding hands. Le
Le Roman de la Rose. 1225-1280. French poem. 13th century. By Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200-1240) and Jean de Meun (c.1240-1305). Men and women dancing holding hands. Miniature. 14th century

Young girl standing at a window on a Christmas card, with a poem on the left. Date: circa 1890s

Poem by Robert Herrick
Fair daffodils we weep to see you waste away ?. Illustrated poem by Robert Herrick. Artist: Joyce Mercer Date: circa 1926

My Dug-Out A lay of the trenches by Bruce Bairnsfather
Old Bill shows his prowess as a poet in this cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather. Date: 1915

Ice Skating Couple - Christmas Greetings Card

Victorian Cyclists and Motorists on a Snowy Road
Illustration showing the scene on a British road in the winter, circa 1899. In the foreground cyclists, two on a tandem, can be seen

Wild Thyme, Oxlips, Violet, Woodbine, Musk-roses and Eglantine (Midsummer Nights Dream)

Botanical Sketchbook -- lettering. A poem entitled English Flowers. Date: 1920s

Federal Dance Theatre presents Salut au monde adapted from a poem of that name by Walt Whitman. Poster showing nine people dancing. Date 1936 or 1937

Blind Italian soldier - WWI
Italian soldiers blinded during World War One - a poem explaining their fate. Date: circa 1918

Words by King Charles II
Poem written by King Charles II entitled I Pass All My Hours in a Shady Old Grove, accompanied by a stylised illustration of the Merry Monarch composing under the shade of an oak tree

W C Bryant (Buttre
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT American writer, journalist and educator, known for his poem Thanatopsis. with his autograph Date: 1794 - 1878

Dulac: Delights of Other Days
Delights of Other Days by Edmund Dulac. The Love Poem. Date: 1913

R was a rubicund rustic who wrote a romantic acrostic, in which roses and thrushes, and rabbits and rushes, to the thyme gave a flavour agrestic. Date: 1908

Illustration by Edmund Dulac to the poem Tamerlane by Edgar Allan Poe. Tamerlane and his young love. Date: 1912

Illustration by Edmund Dulac to Tamerlane, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Tamerlane on horseback leading his army. Date: 1912

Fairy-land by Edgar Allan Poe, Dulac illustration
Illustration by Edmund Dulac to the poem Fairy-land by Edgar Allan Poe. Date: 1912

Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe, Dulac illustration
Illustration by Edmund Dulac to the poem Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe. An eidolon named Night on a black throne reigns upright. Date: 1912

Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe, Dulac illustration
Illustration by Edmund Dulac to the poem Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe. Ambiguous figure of the archangel Israfel. Date: 1912

To - - by Edgar Allan Poe, Dulac illustration
Illustration by Edmund Dulac to To - - [Mrs Marie Louise Shew], a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Date: 1912

The Valley of Unrest by Edgar Allan Poe, Dulac illustration
Illustration by Edmund Dulac to the poem The Valley of Unrest, by Edgar Allan Poe. Date: 1912

Bridal Ballad by Edgar Allan Poe, Dulac illustration
Illustration by Edmund Dulac to the poem Bridal Ballad by Edgar Allan Poe. Date: 1912

To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe, Dulac illustration
Illustration by Edmund Dulac to the poem To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe. Helen was Mrs Stannard (or Stanard), whose death also inspired another poem, Lenore. Date: 1912

Al Aaraaf by Edgar Allan Poe, Dulac illustration
Illustration by Edmund Dulac to the poem Al Aaraaf by Edgar Allan Poe

To the River by Edgar Allan Poe, Dulac illustration
Illustration by Edmund Dulac to To The River, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Date: 1912

Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe, Dulac illustration
Illustration by Edmund Dulac to Eldorado, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe

Loving Spanish Couple with bouquet and romantic verse
My soul cannot succeed in happiness if it is not sharing the happiness of your company. Date: circa 1910s

Coquette
The Coquette, a poem by Henry Longfellow. Artist: A K Macdonald Date: 1906

When I am grown to Man's Estate, I shall be very Proud and Great. And tell the other Girls and Boys, NOT to meddle with my toys'

Contemplation
Contemplative young woman: What does it mean? - the beauty and sweetness breathing from nature when life is new ? From a poem by Lily Watson. Date: 1890

Kate Greenaway
Two girls dancing amongst daffodils, illustrating a poem by Friedrich Schiller Date: 1905

Kate Greenaway
The Quiver of Love - A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern'. Opposite the poem The Name on the Tree'

Walter Crane
The Quiver of Love - A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern'. Opposite the poem Cherry Ripe'. Illustration depicts a lady picking a cherry from a tree. Date: 1876

Kate Greenaway
The Quiver of Love - A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern'. Opposite the poem Spring Smiles'. Illustration depicts a lady in a garden with a spray of roses in her lap. Date: 1876

Walter Crane
The Quiver of Love - A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern'. Opposite the poem Venus and Cupid'. Illustration depicts Venus and Cupid under a May tree. Date: 1876

Kate Greenaway
The Quiver of Love - A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern'. Opposite the poem The Surprise'. Illustration depicts a young suitor in a garden covering the lady's eyes. Date: 1876

Walter Crane
The Quiver of Love - A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern'. Opposite the poem Spring'

Kate Greenaway
The Quiver of Love - A Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern'. Opposite poem Do I Love You?'. Illustration depicts two ladies blowing dandelion seeds. Date: 1876

Charles Edward Brock
Christmas postcard by Brock depicting a group greeting one another at a lych gate, captioned by the poem: At Christmas be merry, and thank God for all ? by Thomas Tusser Date: circa 1910

Charles Edward Brock
Christmas postcard by Brock depicting a couple being offered mistletoe by a passer-by, captioned by the poem: The wind is chill but let it whistle as it will ? by Sir Walter Scott Date: circa 1910

Charles Edward Brock
Christmas postcard by Brock depicting young carol singers accompanied by a cellist, captioned by the poem: What sweeter music can we bring, than a carol for to sing ? Anon Carol. Date: circa 1910

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