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
Earth could not answer: nor the Seas that mourn In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn; Nor Heaven, with those eternal Signs reveal' And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn. Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1 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
Wake! for the sun behind yon Eastern height has chased the session of the stars from night. Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1909. PacificStock
Coloured illustration by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale illustrating the poem Cherry Ripe by Anon. From the book Palgrave's GoldenTreasury of Songs and Lyrics published 1919. PacificStock
Coloured illustration by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale illustrating the poem Man's Love by Shakespeare. From the book Palgrave's GoldenTreasury of Songs and Lyrics published 1919. PacificStock