Poem Collection (page 3)

Reconciliation, poem by Blaikie, design by Walter Crane
Reconciliation, poem by John Arthur Blaikie, design by Walter Crane Date: 1885

Smart Gent sits beneath a tree and thinks of his love
Smart Gent sits beneath a tree with his lute, dreaming of his sweetheart and composing some lines of romantic poetry and song

Victorian Sheet Music Cover Warrior Return Alfred
victorian, sheet, music, cover, warrior, return, alfred, lord, tennyson, john, blockley, carry, carrying, body, bridge, medieval, middle, ages, people, procession, home, brought, dead, words

Shall I, wasting in despair ? - Shall I, wasting in despair, die because a woman's fair ? Illustration of a poem of unrequited love. Author: George Wither. Artist: Joyce Mercer Date: circa 1930

Nibelungenlied. Kriemhild requiring the proof of the coffin
Nibelungenlied. Anonymous epic poem. 13th century. Scene depicting Kriemhild requiring the proof of the coffin. Engraving by A. Closs. Germania, 1882. Colored

Divine Comedy. Fifth Canto of the Purgatory. Dante talks wit
Divine Comedy. Epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. Dante talks with Pia dei Tolomei, one of the three people who died violently. Engraving by Gustave Dore. Colored

Victorian Death Bereavement Mourning White Black
victorian, death, bereavement, mourning, white, black, 1850s, embossed, card, religion, religious, belief, faith, tree, trees, cemetery, urn, urns, funerary, rectangle, rectangular, woman, women

Illustration, Death and Doctor Hornbook
Illustration to Death and Doctor Hornbook, a poem by Robert Burns. Date: 1866

Cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil, Vide Milton, by James Gillray. A parody of a scene from John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, showing Prime Minister William Pitt (left) as Death

Illustration, A Song of the English, Calcutta
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). Calcutta -- Me the Sea-captain loved, the River built

Trinket Box with Caton Woodville WWI battle scene
Trinket Box lined with velvet. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist

Trinket Box lined with velvet. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist

Cigarette Box with relief after a Caton Woodville painting
Cigarette Box. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist together with Rudyard Kipling's poem - Who stands if freedom fail Who dies if England

Shahnameh. The Book of Kings. 16th c. Depiction of a battle. Islamic art. Miniature Painting

Qui Hi's Last March to Padree Burrows's Go Down. An illustration to The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in eight cantos by Quiz

LADY AT TOMB
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance... - illustration to a poem by Burns. Date: early 19th century

WE ARE SEVEN GRAVE
The We are Seven grave, Conway, North Wales, made famous in the (1798) poem by William Wordsworth; protected by an iron grill to prevent visitors chipping away at it! Date: 1950s

POE/POEM/THE RAVEN/C19TH
"Sorrow for the lost Lenore"; the man contemplates his lost love. Date: First published: 1845

Page from the Barsegape manuscript
An illustrated page from the a manuscript of the Italian poet Pietro da Barsegape, showing people rising from the dead on the Day of Judgement. Date: 14th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Boots, Boots, Boots
The Caption is Boots! Boots! Boots! This is a take on Rudyard Kiplings poem Infantry Columns where the boots actually go up and down

Advertisement for Skippers Sailor Savouries sandwich filling with a poem illustrated by Gladys Peto. Date: c.1924

Poem illustrated by Walter Crane. Date: 1884

Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancer
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)

French knights and ladies in front of a castle, 14th century. From an illuminated manuscript of the epic poem Les Voeux du Paon by Jacques de Longuyon

The marriage of Penelope and Ulysses. Nozze di Penelope e di Ulisse. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Roberto Freschi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Young lady (off on her hols!) sends a quick postcard
Life is short as time will show - If you don t get this, please let me know. Date: circa 1910s

Poet and Doctor Colonel John McCrae Memorial
McCrae, who served in the Boer War, is popularly remembered as the author of what is probably the best-known poem of the First World War -In Flanders Fields

Vlamertinghe Chateau, subject of Edmund Blunden poem
Blunden wrote the poem, On Passing Vlamertinghe Chateau in July 1917 in which he describes Poppies by the million. The Chateau survived the war

A Rose in Roses. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, The Gardeners Daughter. Date: c.1920

The shadow passeth when the tree shall fall. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, Love and Death. Date: c.1920

But am I not the nobler thro thy love. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennyson s
But am I not the nobler thro thy love. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, Love and Duty. Date: c.1920

Alas for her that met me. Illustration by Florence Harrison for Tennysons poem, Lyric from Maud. Date: c.1920

Bearing on my shallop. Illustration by Florence Harrison of Tennysons poem, Recollections of the Arabian Nights. Date: c.1920

At last I heard a voice up on the slope cry to the summit, is there any hope. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, The Vision of Sin. Date: c.1920

Break, Break, Break - illustration by Florence Harrison of Tennysons poem. Date: c.1920

Out upon the wharfs they came. Illustration by Florence Harrison from Tennysons poem, The Lady of Shallott. Date: c.1920

Out flew the web and floated wide. Illustration by Florence Harrison of Tennysons The Lady of Shallott. Date: c.1920

Joan of Arc a light of ancient France Illustration by Florence Harrison of Joan of Arc from Tennysons Dream of Fair Women. Date: c.1920

Whereto the other with downward brow... Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennyson s
Whereto the other with downward brow... Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, Dream of Fair Women. Date: c.1920

A postcard bearing a very useful message for busy people in order to stop their friends hating them: " I m very, very busy, With many things to do, But my favorite occupation is

Cartoon, The Ancient Mariner in the City (financiers)
Cartoon, The Ancient Mariner in the City -- a satirical comment on the difficulties financiers in the City of London were facing at the time, in a parody of Coleridges long narrative poem: Money

Excelsior
From the poem Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which describes a young mans journey through a mountain village carrying a banner inscribed Excelsior ( Onward and Upward)

Evangeline is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published in 1847 which describes the separation of Evangeline and her beloved Gabriel during the expulsion of the Acadian community from Nova

Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Lady Clara Verede Vere is an English poem byAlfred Tennyson, part of his collected poems published in 1842. The poem is about a lady in a family ofaristocrats

Elaine of Astolatis a figure inArthurian legend who dies of unrequited love forSir Lancelot. Well-known versions of her story appear inSir Thomas Malory sLe Morte d Arthur and Alfred

The coquette
The Coquette, a poem by Henry Longfellow, illustrated by A K Macdonald Date: 1906

Knight of the Red Cross
Red Cross Knight, a fictional character, is the protagonist of Book I of The Faerie Queene (1590), an epic poem by Edmund Spenser

The Rauhes Haus, Hamburg
Bird s-eye view of the Rauhes Haus (or Rauhe House), a boys reformatory at Horn, near Hamburg. It is accompanied by a laudatory poem by Karl Gerok. Date: Date unknown

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