Items matching poetry (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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Frontispiece: Beata BeatrixDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-25

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Frontispiece: What the sun looks like when it’s asleepA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

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, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-24

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The Day DreamDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-25

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The Invocation.Emblems Divine and Moral (1866)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-16

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In winter I get up at night / And dress by yellow candle-light.A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

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

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-08

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2.—Preludium to the book of UrizenFirst Book of Urizen (1794)

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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3.—Chapter I of Blake’s Book of UrizenFirst Book of Urizen (1794)

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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5.—The Book RevealedFirst Book of Urizen (1794)

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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6.—Urizen in the Womb-like GlobeFirst Book of Urizen (1794)

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

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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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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Sculpture: Muse of PoetryGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

This full-page engraving is in the form of a three-dimensional sculpture: a mermaid sits in an alcove playing a musical instrument and petting a swan; she has a crown of flowers and long flowing hair. [...]

Keywords: sculpture, mythological figures, nudity, art, emblems, mermaids, birds, swans, musical instruments, poetry, music, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-25

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Muse of Poetry, UnlabeledGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A version of the Muse of poetry sculpture with theGerman writing removed.

Keywords: sculpture, mythological figures, nudity, art, emblems, mermaids, birds, swans, musical instruments, poetry, music, cartouches, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-25

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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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PoesieIllustrated Treasury of Science, Art and Family Literature (1865)

A naked boy with wings—a cherub or putto—and a harp behind his back sits on a great swan, dangling one bare foot over the water of a placid lake. He holds a pen which has a star at the end; he looks p [...]

Keywords: cherubs, boys, people, swans, birds, nudity, poetry, pens, books, musical instruments, wings, boats, hair, water, lakes, trees, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-09-04

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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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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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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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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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Lady of Castle WindeckRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

“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, greyscale

Places shown: Windeck; Baden-Württemberg; Germany

Added: 2006-04-26

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