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Lucille (page 1/3)

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[picture: Front Cover, Lucille]

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

Author: Meredith, Owen

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.

Some sample images

[picture: The sheep of Apollo]

The sheep of Apollo

A young man, naked, sits under a tree, a harp in one hand; all around him sheep are grazing. [more...] [$]

[picture: Ruins and tombs and withred grass]

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...] [$]

[picture: The dream they had laid out in their lives was over]

The dream they had laid out in their lives was over

It needs not to tell [more...] [$]

[picture: Borders with posies of flowers on either side.]

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...] [$]

[picture: Exterior of a German Inn]

Exterior of a German Inn

A carriage with two horses and a driver sits in the moonlit night outside a grand-looking half-timbered house with a lantern lit and light shining out of the open front door. A man in a top hat and Victorian costume is about [...] [more...] [$]


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