Tag: poetry

Around Us Lie These Mysteries

John Dugdale :: Around Us Lie these Mysteries, ca. 1998. Cyanotype. | src John Dugdale Studio

Song of the Open Road (1856)

(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens;
I carry them, men and women ─ I carry them with me wherever I go;
I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them;
I am fill’d with them, and I will fill them in return.)

Walt Whitman

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Adelaide Hanscom Leeson :: Plate XV. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1905. Photogravure. Published by Dodge Publishing Co. | src photogravure.com
Adelaide Hanscom Leeson :: Plate XV. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1905. Photogravure. Published by Dodge Publishing Co. | src photogravure.com
The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám, 1914. Published by Dodge Publishing Co. "Popular Edition". Scanned by Getty Research Institute
The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám, 1914. Published by Dodge Publishing Co. “Popular Edition“. Scanned by Getty Research Institute
Adelaide Hanscom Leeson :: The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám, 1905. Plate 17. Published by Dodge Publishing Co. Scanned by University of California Libraries | src internet archive
Adelaide Hanscom Leeson :: The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám, 1905. Plate 17. Published by Dodge Publishing Co. Scanned by University of California Libraries | src internet archive
Adelaide Hanscom Leeson :: The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám, 1905. Plate 17. Published by Dodge Publishing Co. Scanned by Getty Research Institute. | src internet archive
Adelaide Hanscom Leeson :: The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám, 1905. Plate 17. Published by Dodge Publishing Co. Scanned by Getty Research Institute. | src internet archive
Adelaide Hanscom Leeson :: The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám, 1905. Plate 17. Published by Dodge Publishing Co. Scanned by Getty Research Institute. | src internet archive
Adelaide Hanscom Leeson :: The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám, 1905. Plate 17. Published by Dodge Publishing Co. Scanned by Getty Research Institute. | src internet archive

I saw them march from Dover, long ago

«I saw them march from Dover, long ago» (p. 82)
Harry Clarke :: Illustration for the poem November Eves (James Elroy Flecker), collected in ‘The year’s at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry’. New York: Brentanos, 1920.
src University of California Libraries at Internet Archive

Midst of all was a cold white face

«Midst of all was a cold white face» (p. 126)
Harry Clarke :: Illustration for the poem Black and White (H. H. Abbott), collected in ‘The year’s at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry’. New York: Brentanos, 1920.
src University of California Libraries at Internet Archive

With magic key… unlocking buds

«With magic key… unlocking buds» (p. 103)
Harry Clarke :: Illustration for the poem To the Coming Spring (Margaret Mackenzie), collected in ‘The year’s at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry’. New York: Brentanos, 1920.
src University of California Libraries at Internet Archive

American poetess Anne Sexton (Anne Gray Harvey), probably 1940′s / via

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“Give me a report on the condition of my soul.
Give me a complete statement of my actions.
Hand me a jack-in-the-pulpit and let me listen in.
Put me in the stirrups and bring a tour group through.
Number my sins on the grocery list and let me buy.
Did I make you go insane?” excerpt from the poem Anna Who Was Mad