Poetry Collection (#13)

Library of Congress Mural - Miltons Comus
Washington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Miltons Comus. Listening to the ladys song. Date: 1920

Library of Congress Mural - Wordsworths Boy of Winander
Washington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Wordsworths Boy of Winander

Library of Congress Mural - Shakespeares Adonis
Washington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Shakespeares Adonis - slain by a wild boar. Date: 1920

Washington, Library of Congress Mural - Keats Endymion
Washington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Keats Endymion - The shepherd boy asleep on Mount Latmus

Washington, Library of Congress Mural - Tennysons Ganymede
Washington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building

Washington, Library of Congress Mural - Muse of Lyric Poetry
Washington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. The Muse of Lyric Poetry. Date: 1920

Joaquin Miller (Cincinnatus Heine Miller) - US Poet
Joaquin Miller (Cincinnatus Heine Miller) (1837-1913) The Poet of the Sierras - US Poet at his home near Oakland, California. Date: 1907

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, Ukranian Poet and artist
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (18141861) - Ukrainian poet and artist. Date: circa 1850

Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC). Latin
" Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC). Latin poet. Illustrated page of the first book of " Ars Poetica" (The Art of Poetry) by Horace. Edition of 18th c. Engraving. SPAIN

Castilian poetry collection previous to 15th c. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Lady Charlotte Bury - 3
Lady CHARLOTTE SUSAN MARIA BURY, daughter of the 6th duke of Argyll, wife (1) of Colonel John Campbell, (2) rev Edward Bury. Not just a pretty face, she wrote poetry and stuff. Date: 1756 - 1861

Library of Congress. Lyric Poetry, by H. O. Walker Library of
Library of Congress. Lyric Poetry, by H.O. Walker. Date c1901

Yoshiie composing poetry at the barrier Nakoso. Print shows samurai Minamoto Yoshiie with another samurai passing cherry trees. Date between 1843 and 1846

The grave of my mother Poetry and music composed and respectfully dedicated to Miss Megee of Philadelphia by the author of Marys beauty

O er graves of the loved ones Poetry and music by John P. Ordway, MD; to Louis P. Goussaud, Esq.. Print showing title page illustration with a woman, man

Four women composing poetry, possibly as a competition, next to a screen with painting of cranes. Date between 1791 and 1795

Whittiers barefooted boy. Print shows a full-length portrait of a young, barefoot boy standing on a rock in a stream at the edge of a wooded area with a cabin in the background. Date c1868

Enoch Arden - the hour of trial. Date c1869

Portrait of Chaucer

Title page - Chaucer

Drawing of Erato, Muse of Song and Poetry
A drawing of Erato, the Muse of Lyric Song and Poetry in Greek mythology, from a statue in the British Museum. By Ellen Philadelphia Smyth (1828-1881), an aunt of Robert Baden Powell. circa 1850s

Harry Hall advertising card - the company specialised in country clothing and hunting attire. The company no longers exists as a retail outfit. Date: circa 1910

Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt, and WW1 poem
A portrait of Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt (1853-1917), who ruled from 1914-1917, during the British protectorate. On either side of him is a poem by Sidney Low, entitled The Martyrs

Maillardets automaton: an drawing and a verse produced by the doll. Date: 18th century

William Robert Brooks
WILLIAM ROBERT BROOKS English-born astronomer in USA who built his own telescope at age 14. His speciality was comets, of which he discovered several. Also wrote poetry. Date: 1844 - 1921

William Broome
WILLIAM BROOME Churchman, scholar and poet who collaborated with Pope in his translations of Homer, besides his original poetry. Date: 1689 - 1745

Sully Prudhomme Photo
RENE-FRANCOIS-ARMAND SULLY- PRUDHOMME French engineer at the Creusot works who preferred poetry, photographed in 1905 when he was old and inform. Date: 1839 - 1907

Bowring (Maclise)
SIR JOHN BOWRING Traveller and author, depicted as translator of the poetry of the Sandwich Islands. Date: 1792 - 1872

Thomas Gray
A silhouette of the poet, Thomas Gray. Date: 1716-1771

News of a fair and a marvellous thing, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell we sing. From a poem by William Morris. 20th century

Olympic poem
A satirical take on the Olympics by Alan Melville. 1948

Charles Hamilton Sorely (1895-1915) - A Scottish poet who was sent to the Western Front in 1915 after several months of training with the Suffolk Regiment

Robert Graves, English poet, translator and novelist
Robert (von) Ranke Graves (1895-1985), English poet, translator and novelist. His autobiography covering his experiences of the First World War, Goodbye To All That (published 1929)

The Sonnet -- a grand lady sits in a garden, her lady-in-waiting standing close by. 20th century

Tell them once more the tale of Bethlehem, the kneeling shepherds and the Babe Divine. From a poem by Charles Kingsley. 20th century

Richard Lovelace, Cavalier poet and soldier
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657), English Cavalier poet and soldier. He got involved in politics as a pro-royalist and spent time in prison. His most famous poem is To Althea, From Prison. circa 1650

Heinrich Frauenlob, German poet
Heinrich Frauenlob (sometimes known as Henry of Meissen), Middle High German poet, seen here entertaining a group of people in a courtly setting. Date: between 1250/1260 - 1318

Hey Diddle Diddle - Nursery Rhyme
Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon

Alfred Austin - Poet Laureate
Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913). English poet, appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson"

Tam O Shanter Galop, music sheet
Tam O Shanter gallops across the bridge on his horse to escape the witches, on the cover of this music sheet, containing the Tam O Shanter Galop with music by Thomas Browne

A maid and her poem by Florence Hardy
If every maid, were of my mind, heigh ho! Heigh ho! lovely sweet, they to their lovers, should prove kind, kindness is for, maidens meet. A maid speaks of how a maid should act

A boy and his poem
The tidings thrill, with right good will, for this is a, frosty morning! A boy tells his friends of the cold and frosty morning outside

A skater and her poem by Florence Hardy
Away away, come follow me! For the North, wind blows, and the smooth ice glows, where the merry skaters be. A skater attempts to convince her friends to join her and come skating

Shakespeare statuette
A Shakespeare statuette made of mulberry wood, 15 inches high, believed to be early 17th century. It was on sale at Sotheby s, 14 July (year unknown), and was the property of Hugh Blaker (1873-1936)

Education, classroom
A class of smiling 5 year olds enjoy a lesson of poetry with mime

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

Elizabeth B Browning
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English poet and wife of Robert Browning. Pictured here in 1849

Greece Parnassos
Mount Parnassos (or Parnassus) near Delphi is associated with Apollo and the Muses, and consequently perceived as the source of poetry and music

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