Verses Collection (page 3)

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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