poetry

[Title page of The Poetical Works of John Trumbull, Hartford, 1820, il...

/ E Tisdale, del.; W.H. Bassett fc. Engraving by W.H. Bassett after drawing by E. Tisdale. Illus. in: The Poetical Works of John Trumbull, Hartford, 1820. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - PATRIOTISM 1820. This re... More

Teishinkō, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman carrying a child on her back; a portrait and a partially unrolled scroll, and a tablet with a poem on it are in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunke... More

[Decoration and calligraphy in the Imperial Topkapı Sarayı (palace)]

Photograph possibly by Abdullah Frères. Persian poetical text. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 33. No. 730. In album: Topkapı Sarayı, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. ... More

[Emily Dickinson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Illus. in: Letters of Emily Dickinson, 1894, frontispiece. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sir Alfred Tennyson - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Couple embracing] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0097). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Golden Legend" by Henry W. Longfellow, Ladies Home Journal, 21:3 (Oct. 1904).

Portrait photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Public domain reproduction of lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Childhood's end? Growing up in the 70's

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[South Corridor, Great Hall. Adonis mural of the Lyric Poetry series b...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Ada Sparks, interview scenes, quilts, jewelry, Chicago, Illinois; Nanc...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-2, Ada Spark's writing book (continued from roll at call number afc... More

Ada Sparks, quilts and writings, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-5, newspaper ad clipped by Ada Sparks, who plans to use the design ... More

The wonder clock: - book for children by Howard Pyle

Also available in digital form.

The wonder clock: - book for children by Howard Pyle

Also available in digital form.

Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston

Phillis Wheatley, half-length portrait, seated at desk with pen and paper, facing left. Illus. in: Poems on various subjects, religious and moral / Phillis Wheatley. London : Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Al... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Haha to ko - Public domain drawing

A woman, holding an infant, and a young boy, both seated. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Alternate title from exhibit caption for ite... More

London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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Minnie Minton - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Camilla, or, Twenty-four hours on the Potomac.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The Dubuque Daily Times, [newspaper]. April 16th, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; 18...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Poem - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Document (poems)

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Gastronomie - Public domain book scan / engraving

Frontispiece engraving signed: Bovinet sculp. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC Copy 1 from the library of G.V. Yudin. Has Yudin's blind stamp on page 13 and LC accession no... More

[Fiddlehead fern]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Ukiyo-e print illustration for haiku shows with fiddlehead ferns sprouting from the ground. Page in: Zoku Koya bunko. Kōto [Edo] : Maekawa Rokuzaemon ... [and 5 others] ; Bishū [Nagoya] : Fūgetsu Magosuke, [179... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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Now sleeps the crimson petal song

the words by Tennyson ; the music by H.T. Burleigh. (statement of responsibility) For low voice with piano. LC copy imperfect: pages are damaged, torn and fragile. acquire 2 shelf copies [policy default] (selec... More

Hero of the Wabash - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

[Four women composing poetry, possibly as a competition, next to a scr...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Genji : The tale of Genji. Format: probably the left panel of a vertical Oban Nishiki... More

Hiiragi ni iwashi ni ume - Public domain drawing

Print shows two fish and plums on holly branches. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Kokonotsugiri-ban Nishikie Surimono. Forms p... More

Disciples of Sappho - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sappho performing outdoors, before an audience. 70898B2 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of painting. On verso: T.R. Spence.

Lyric poetry; Ganymede / H.O. Walker, artist.

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting Ganymede being carried off by Jupiter in the form of an eagle. Copyley print copyright 1899 by Curtis & Cameron.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Odoke sanjūroku kasen - Public domain dedication image

Japanese prints shows eight scenes and text with various people and activities including Americans; ship; Japanese men tying a bundle, reading, fishing, and playing a game. Mounted with no. 5a. Annotations, st... More

Steuben Glass, business. Poetry in crystal I

Public domain photograph of New York, midcentury American architecture, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steuben Glass, business. Poetry in crystal I

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Untitled poetry at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, C...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Poet: Rita Dove, 1999; etched marble, 12 pieces, each measuring 3 x 2 feet in diameter. Title information, date, and subject note p... More

Poetry Left At Memorial

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, memorial, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[North Corridor, Great Hall. Poetry mosaic surrounded by Painting, Scu...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[House Members Room. Light of Poetry (red) panel in the Spectrum of Li...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Song of the Indian river

Also available in digital form.

American songs - Public domain World War One sheet music

For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Sketches & scraps - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

In verse. Printer named on verso of t.p. In original publisher's binding: Illustrated paper over boards, cloth spine. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 185-189 LC copy is a copyright deposit: N... More

Soul poems, and other verse,

Also available in digital form.

Piesni. Russian Masonic Songs, 1905.

"Sbornik masonskikh pi︠e︡sen." Cf. I︠U︡ Bitovt. Ri︠e︡dkīi︠a︡ knigi, 1905, no. 2660. Purchase from Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich Yudin, 1906. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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[Children with vines and letters M and E]

Title devised by cataloger. Margin and initial decoration for poems "Mystic" and "Early" published in "The Little Past" by Josephine Preston Peabody, Harper's magazine, 108:96 (Dec. 1903). (DLC/PP-1933:0185). F... More

London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

LC #220 Whitman's Cardboard Butterfly

Minnie Minton - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Boston patriotic song [Adams and liberty]

Lyrics only -- tune called for is "To Anacreon in Heaven." Printed in "A collection of songs" (Charles Dibdin, compiler?), pages 326-328.

Boston patriotic song [Adams and liberty]

Lyrics only -- tune called for is "To Anacreon in Heaven." Printed in "A collection of songs" (Charles Dibdin, compiler?), pages 326-328.

The funeral procession of the celebrated Mr. Jonathan Wild Thief-Taker...

A poem, "The Complaint of Jonathan Wild," surrounded by images of a funeral/procession, rows of people hanging from gallows, and other scenes. Forms part of British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congres... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lob vnd Klagspruch der Augspurischen Confession uber die ritterlichen ...

Print shows the dead King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden lying on his back under a tree above the battle plaing near Lutzen. Depicted standing next to him is the Virgin Mary. The Swedish king was killed in the Bat... More

Chōsui, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two women struggling over a poem or letter scroll. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Fūryū goshikizumi : Mo... More

Kasanui, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman sitting with a man who is sewing an umbrella. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Shokunin sanjū roku... More

Lord Byron / Edwin, sc., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Engraved for the Analectic magazine. Stauffer II, 723.

The lament of the Irish emigrant - a ballad - poetry by the hon. Mrs. ...

Sheet music cover shows a man wearing top hat with bag and walking stick leaning on a stile. Sixth edition. Printed below image: The music composed and most cordially dedicated to Mrs. Isaac McGaw, of New York... More

The grave of my mother Poetry and music composed and respectfully dedi...

Print showing title page illustration with girl looking sadly at "the grave of my mother." Drawn on stone by James Queen.

[Civil War envelope showing eagle with American flags, shield, arrows,...

Public domain scan of a poetry manuscript, poem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Natsu no yo no tsuki - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows General Akashi Gidayu, wearing white outfit, sitting on the floor, holding a knife (tantō or short sword) in his right hand, with papers in front of him on which he has written his death poem (also ... More

[Walter Scott Lenox, founder of Lenox Ceramic Art Company, half-length...

Written on verso: Walter S. Lenox, Trenton, N.J.; Judge in H(?). Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Autobiographical statement is in the Supplemental Biographical File. In 1894, John Boyd Thacher requested portraits... More

Lyric poetry; Comus, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson building, W...

Reproduction of a mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building showing a scene from the poem, The masque of Comus, by Milton.

Reception by the Director of Programmes, Palestine Broadcasting Servic...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The lesbian body [by] Kate Millett An exhibition of drawings : Levitan...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Untitled poetry at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, C...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Poet: Rita Dove, 1999; etched marble, 12 pieces, each measuring 3 x 2 feet in diameter. Title information, date, and subject note p... More

Untitled poetry at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, C...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Poet: Rita Dove, 1999; etched marble, 12 pieces, each measuring 3 x 2 feet in diameter. Title information, date, and subject note p... More

Ada Sparks, quilts and writings, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-5, newspaper ad clipped by Ada Sparks, who plans to use the design ... More

Sketches & scraps - Engraving, Public domain image

In verse. Printer named on verso of t.p. In original publisher's binding: Illustrated paper over boards, cloth spine. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 185-189 LC copy is a copyright deposit: N... More

Sketches & scraps - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

In verse. Printer named on verso of t.p. In original publisher's binding: Illustrated paper over boards, cloth spine. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 185-189 LC copy is a copyright deposit: N... More

The wonder clock: - book for children by Howard Pyle

Also available in digital form.

The poetry of flowers and flowers of poetry;

Also available in digital form.

The wonder clock: - book for children by Howard Pyle

Also available in digital form.

The wonder clock: - book for children by Howard Pyle

Also available in digital form.

Owen Innsly - Love songs & other poems

Also available in digital form.

Poems by Alexander Graham Bell, from 1858 to 1859

Public domain scan of a poetry manuscript, poem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

La sfera. nautical chart - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

In verse. Sometimes incorrectly ascribed to Gregorio's nephew, Leonardo Dati, according to Goff, citing GW. No signatures. LC copy has marginal color wash pen-and-ink illustrations, including astronomical, mete... More

London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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Camilla, or, Twenty-four hours on the Potomac.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Douglass Frederick correspondence 1893, Apr.

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Poem - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick

Title page illustration shows a young woman wearing a long dress and cloak walking outdoors and reading a book, presumably poetry. (DLC/PP-1935:0076). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of... More

[Collection of 13 poetry broadsides from the Laboratory Press of the C...

Page Order: Piece 5 is a Leaflet.; Piece 13 is oversized. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Po... More

Douglass, Frederick (Autograph Book)

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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