Items matching poems (results page 1)

Frontispiece: A Girl’s Face, after GreuzeCassell’s Family Magazine (1889)

This portrait, an engraving printed in red ink with a border in a delicate pale green, illustrates a poem by J. R> Eastwood: A GIRL’S face where, the budding rose Of youthful beauty blooms and grow [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, girls, children, faces, poems, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-18

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A ReminiscenceArt-Journal (1850)

A path through the trees, strewn with the fallen masonry of gateposts with their terracotta balls; mature trees on either side. In the backgrouns a person wearing a ha and using a cane (or umbrella) w [...]

Keywords: mansions, stately homes, ruin, nostalgia, trees, paths, poetry, poems, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2023-12-13

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Mournful / Contemplative Full-Page Border With StatuesVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

This full-page decorative border features trees without leaves, presumably in Winter, and statues that from the context we know to be monuments on tombs. In the foreground is a lilly-pond. In the book [...]

Keywords: poems, borders, melancholy, gothic, graveyards, statuary, trees, forests, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-01-22

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Homecoming, by Robert EngelsJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

A poem about a man coming home after a long journey; he is a medieval knight, and sits on a wall holding his lance and helmet, overlooking the town and castle. In th epoem he now has grey hair, b [...]

Keywords: poetry, poems, knights, people, warriors, castles, men, armour, medieval architecture, medieval scenes, greyscale

Places shown: Germany

Added: 2021-08-06

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Christmas Still LifeModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

A man wearing a brown suit jacket, red waistcoat, white cravat and top hat has a smile has a carried a platter of Christmas food over one shoulder and a wicker basked containing four bottles of wine. [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, colour, feasts, people, waiters, men, top hats, poems, poetry, thanksgiving

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-10-31

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Page image, full-page border with wild flowersIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This page is surrounded with a border consisting of a straight lines overgrown with wild flowers fom the bottom of he page and working up more than halfway. The poem is by Georg Scherer and the border [...]

Keywords: page images, flowers, poems, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-06-08

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By the SeaThe Circling Year (1870)

A Victorian sea-side outing, with children palying on the beach, a nanny or mother standing by them holding a boook, and, in the backgorund, a man, perhaps their father, with a top hat and cane. The c [...]

Keywords: people, children, victorian costumes, seaside, beaches, sand castles, liesure, playing, holidays, vacations, women, men, dresses, hats, ocean, sea, water, sand, poems, poetry, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-04-06

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The Rainy DayWorld’s Best Music (1900)

The poem as printed in the book reads: The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fal [...]

Keywords: sheet music, music, page images, poems, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-27

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The Rainy DayWorld’s Best Music (1900)

The second page of the sheet music (piano score) for the song by Wordsworth, “The Rainy Day.”

It’s a very “goth” song, all about how everyone must endure misery.

Keywords: sheet music, music, page images, poems, songs, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-27

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Stoke Pogis ChurchyardThe Circling Year (1870)

The churchyard at Stoke Pogis (today written Stoke Poges) was the setting for Thomas Grey’s famous Elegy. The book uses the illustration to accompany the following poem, which is by the Rev. William B [...]

Keywords: spooky, graveyards, cemetaries, graves, churches, moonlight, spires, towers, trees, forest, nighttime, rural, buildings, poetry, poems, colour

Places shown: Stoke Poges; Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2019-02-28

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Churchyard of Stoke-Pogis, EnglandFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

An English country churchyard, with uneven monuments, and a medieval church with ivy-covered walls and a spire. The extract from Thomas Gray’s poem given here (Elegy in a Country Churchyard) is only a [...]

Keywords: churches, churchyards, graveyards, walls, ivy, poems, peacefulness, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Stoke Poges; Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2021-08-28

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The Lost City Under the SeaJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

A naked bearded man sits on the spire of a cathedral in an underwater city and gazes upon the town; large fish and a jellyfish swim past. He is crowned with coral. The picture is delicate, printed in [...]

Keywords: poetry, poems, cityscapes, views, cities, underwater, floods, flooded, people, men, nudity, bare feet, fish, spires, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-06

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Panting was his heart with frightChatterbox Annual (1916)

A dog is leaping in chase after a rabbit; another rabbit looks on nervously in the background. Bright the summer morn and early,     Sweetly sang the lark on high, Meadow grass with dew was pearly,   [...]

Keywords: animals, rabbits, dogs, poems, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-16

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