Poems

Hasegawa Tohaku, Maple, 1592. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be...

Norval Morrisseau, Migration, 1973 . “Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise Hath chid down all the majesty...

Artur Pastor, Nazaré, 1953-57 . Any clear thing that blinds us with surprise, your wandering silences and bright trouvailles, dolphin...

anon . I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth...

Eugène Delacroix, Unmade Bed , c 1824-28 . A man and a woman lie on a white bed. It is...

Shel Silverstein, Zebra Question, 1981 . I asked the zebra Are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes?...

A vintage postcard illustration featuring a stylish lady walking along a footpath overlooking the White Cliffs of Dover, 1900. The...

'The Tinder Spark', A Collection of Poetry by Abu Al-'Ala Al-Ma'arri (d.1058 AD), Syria, dated 700 AH / 1300 AD...

René Magritte, The Kiss, 1938 . What sort of arrow split the sky and this rock? It quivers, spreading like...

Dunhuang Star Atlas, the oldest complete star atlas known, dating from 649-684 . "An overcast morning in July. A taste...