Items matching poetry

6.—Urizen in the Womb-like Globe

Urizen floats naked in the darkness. Full-page illustration without text.

Keywords: occult, people, nudity, bare feet, beards, christmas, poetry, colour

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Added: 2007-11-17

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2.—Preludium to the book of Urizen

PRELUDIUM TO the book of URIZEN Of the primeval Priests assum’d power, When Eternals spurn’d back his religion; And gave him a place in the north, Obscure, shadowy, void, solitary. Eternals I hear you [...]

Keywords: blake, occult, colour, poetry, people

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Added: 2007-11-17

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3.—Chapter I of Blake’s Book of Urizen

Chap: I 1. Lo, a shadow of horror is risen In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific? Self-clos’d, all-repelling: what Demon Hath form’d this abominable void This soul-shudd’ring vacuum? – Some said “It is Uri [...]

Keywords: blake, occult, people, nudity, bare feet, colour, poetry

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Added: 2007-11-17

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5.—The Book Revealed

Urizen (?) holds a giant open book inscribed with strange symbols; the text is as follows: In living creations appear’d In the flames of eternal fury. 3. Sund’ring, dark’ning, thund’ring! Rent away wi [...]

Keywords: occult, people, beards, books, pictures of books, poetry, colour

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Added: 2007-11-17

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Lady of Castle Windeck

“Messrs. D. Appleton, of New York, requested us to provide a set of illustrations to the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. They wished for a large number by Birket Foster, who at that time was [...]

Keywords: poetry, knights, people

Places shown: Windeck; Baden-Württemberg; Germany

Added: 2006-04-26

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The Day Dream

The Day-Dream. – Ionides Collection South Kensington. From a painting by Rossetti. Within the branching shade of Reverie Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be     Like woman’s budding day-dr [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

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Added: 2008-07-25

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Frontispiece: Beata Beatrix

Beata Beatrix . . . Tate Gallery From a painting by Rossetti. Because mine eyes can never have their fill Of looking at my lady’s lovely face,         I will so fix my gaze That I may become bless’d, [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

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Added: 2008-07-25

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Snow in Town

The title for this poem show a boy gathering a snowball, and some houses with roofs covered in snow, and an old-fashioned lamp-post. Nothing is quite so quiet and clean     As snow that falls in the [...]

Keywords: winter, snow, poetry, christmas, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-12-17

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Frontispiece: What the sun looks like when it’s asleep

A small boy kneels between two trees in a dark forest; behind him is a brown house. In front of him and beneath him is a great cave, brightly lit by the sleeping sun, who has taken the formof a man ly [...]

Keywords: people, children, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, sleep, poetry

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Added: 2007-08-25

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A Good Thanksgiving

Said Old Gentleman Gay, “On a Thanksgiving Day, If you want a good time, then give something away.” So he sent a fat turkey to Shoemaker Price, And the shoemaker said, “What a big bird! how nice! And [...]

Keywords: poetry, thanksgiving, people, illustrations for children, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2007-11-02

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The Invocation.

The illustration for “The Invocation” at the start of the first book shows a person lying on the ground resting against a tree, barefoot, with a lute on the ground nearby, and an heraldic shield hung [...]

Keywords: poetry, emblems, people, bare feet

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Added: 2007-09-16

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In winter I get up at night / And dress by yellow candle-light.

In this illustration a small child, probably a girl, stands barefoot by a bed illuminated by the yellow glow of a candle; she is in the process of getting dressed in the dark, by the light of the cand [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, poetry, bare feet, people, interiors, beds, bedrooms, colour

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Added: 2007-03-08

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