Illustrated Poetry, and Fine Artwork

I have had a long interest in poetry and art. Here are some of my favorite poems, artists and paintings.

Poetry

Chinese Poetry

 

Notes on Translation

 

Anonymous

Carpe Diem.

The Lady Lo-Fu.

Estimating the Value of a Wife.

Muh-Lan.

Li-Po

Night Thoughts. 

Clearing at Dawn.

In the Mountains on a Summers Day.

To Tan-Ch'iu

Tu-Fu

Lady Kung-sun's Dance of the Sword.

At an Evening Picnic.

Po Chu-yi

The Ballad of Endless Woe

Other

T'ao Ch'ien - On Returning to a Country Life

Chang Chiu-ling - By Moonlight

Ch'u Kuang-hsi - Rustic Felicity

 

Kipling Poetry

Biography

 

Kipling Poetry 1

The Betrothed

The Ballad of East and West

Kipling Poetry 2

When Earth's Last Picture is Painted

Mandalay

Last of the Light Brigade

The Lost Legion

Kipling Poetry 3

The Open Door

The Last Suttee

 

Masefield Poetry

Biography

Masefield Poetry

Cargoes

Sea Fever

Trade Winds

The Everlasting Mercy

 

 

Poetry

Various Poets

 

James Leigh Hunt

Abou Ben Adhem

A Night Rain in Summer

Sir Henry Wotton & Robert Lee Frost

The Character of a Happy Life

The Road Not Taken

Sir Walter Scott & Oliver Goldsmith

Lochinvar

Sweet Auburn

Christina Rossetti

Remember

Goblin Market

Unknown

Idyllic Island Life

John Betjeman

Diary of a Church Mouse

Seaside Golf

Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat

Philip Appleman & Peter Appleton

from:5 Easy Prayers for Pagans

A Simple Explanation For Everything

The Responsibility

Guy de Maupassant

Extract from "Afloat"

Shelly

Ozymandias

Mary Elizabeth Frye

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

Robert Louis Stevenson

Christmas at Sea

 

Nezami

The Garden of the Seven Beauties, Extract from Haft Peykar

 

Avalon

Tennyson

 

Nonesense Poetry

Edward Lear & Lewis Carrol

The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo

The Owl & The Pussy-cat

The Walrus and the Carpenter

 

Paintings

Artists

 

Tart, Spencer

 

Amorsolo, Cesar Sr.

 

Senanayake, Seneka

 

Phong, Dao Hai

 

Orientalists 1

An Arab in the Desert of Sinai

Lilium Auratum

Jaffa

The Almeh

 

Orientalists 2

The Reception

A Girl from Morocco

Prayer in the Mosque

A Street Scene in Damascus

 

Orientalists 3

A Bashi Bazouk

Hareem Life Constantinople

View of Cairo

Temple Ruins of Baalbek

 

Orientalists 4

Man & Boy Overlooking the Bay in Algiers

Market in Jaffa

Woman with Tambourine

Berber Woman

 

Orientalists 5

A North African Courtyard

Egyptian Girl

The Silk Merchants 

 


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