Coloured illustration by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale illustrating the poem O Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley by Burns. From the book Palgrave's GoldenTreasury of Songs and Lyrics published 1919. PacificStock
Coloured illustration by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale illustrating the poem O Saw Ye Bonnie Lesley by Burns. From the book Palgrave's GoldenTreasury of Songs and Lyrics published 1919. PacificStock
Oh, plagued no more with Human or Divine, To-morrow's tangle to itself resign, And lose your fingers in the tresses of The Cypress-slender Minister of Wine. Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1909. PacificStock
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches and, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows? Illustration by Edmund Dulac to From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayya PacificStock
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help - for It As impotently rolls as you or I. Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1909. PacificStock
Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire. Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1909. PacificStock
But that is but a Tent wherein may rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrásh Strikes, and prepares it for another guest. Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1909. PacificStock
Illustration by W. Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Dead, by Rudyard Kipling. From A Song of the English, published c.1914 PacificStock
The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw, And Kings the forehead on his threshold drew - I saw the solitary Ringdove there, And "Coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "Coo, coo, coo." Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published PacificStock
Coloured illustration by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale illustrating the poem The Great Adventurer by Anon. From the book Palgrave's GoldenTreasury of Songs and Lyrics published 1919. PacificStock
And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas - the Grape! Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1909. PacificStock
Coloured illustration by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale illustrating the poem A Wish by Rogers. From the book Palgrave's GoldenTreasury of Songs and Lyrics published 1919. PacificStock
Coloured illustration by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale illustrating the poem A Wish by Rogers. From the book Palgrave's GoldenTreasury of Songs and Lyrics published 1919. PacificStock