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
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
She cried " O miserable man, what sorry watch is this that thou has kept" Illustration by Edmund Dulac for The Story of The Magic Horse. From The Arabian Nights, published 1938. PacificStock