I have had a long interest in poetry and art. Here are some of my favorite poems, artists and paintings.
Chinese Poetry
Carpe Diem.
The Lady Lo-Fu.
Estimating the Value of a Wife.
Muh-Lan.
Night Thoughts.
Clearing at Dawn.
In the Mountains on a Summers Day.
To Tan-Ch'iu
Lady Kung-sun's Dance of the Sword.
At an Evening Picnic.
The Ballad of Endless Woe
T'ao Ch'ien - On Returning to a Country Life
Chang Chiu-ling - By Moonlight
Ch'u Kuang-hsi - Rustic Felicity
Kipling Poetry
The Betrothed
The Ballad of East and West
When Earth's Last Picture is Painted
Mandalay
Last of the Light Brigade
The Lost Legion
The Open Door
The Last Suttee
Masefield Poetry
Cargoes
Sea Fever
Trade Winds
The Everlasting Mercy
Various Poets
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
Remember
Goblin Market
Idyllic Island Life
Diary of a Church Mouse
Seaside Golf
Rubaiyat
Philip Appleman & Peter Appleton
from:5 Easy Prayers for Pagans
A Simple Explanation For Everything
The Responsibility
Extract from "Afloat"
Ozymandias
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
Christmas at Sea
The Garden of the Seven Beauties, Extract from Haft Peykar
Avalon
Tennyson
Nonesense Poetry
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
The Owl & The Pussy-cat
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Artists
An Arab in the Desert of Sinai
Lilium Auratum
Jaffa
The Almeh
The Reception
A Girl from Morocco
Prayer in the Mosque
A Street Scene in Damascus
A Bashi Bazouk
Hareem Life Constantinople
View of Cairo
Temple Ruins of Baalbek
Man & Boy Overlooking the Bay in Algiers
Market in Jaffa
Woman with Tambourine
Berber Woman
A North African Courtyard
Egyptian Girl
The Silk Merchants