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Images and short extracts from Lucille (1882) by Owen Meredith; this was actually a nom de plume for Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC (1831–-1891). The poems were very popular in the late Victorian era, and have a melancholy gothic feel.
Title: Lucille
Published by: James R. Osgood and Company
Date: 1882
Total items: 14
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Ruins and tombs and withred grass
Stone crosses of graves on a hill, with some trees or perhaps a ruined church to the right, and hills in the background. This melancholy sketch was at the end of a a chapter in this gothic novel. [more...] [$]
The dream they had laid out in their lives was over
Borders with posies of flowers on either side. This border, with bunches of flowers on either side, was used to surround a woodcut of a forest. [more...] [$]
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