poetry

The wonder clock: - book for children by Howard Pyle

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Poems of history, by the most famous poets of all ages; relating to mo...

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The wonder clock: - book for children by Howard Pyle

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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

Home Insurance Company, cash assets $6,000,000, April / Kronheim & Co....

Print on recto shows calendar from the Home Insurance Company almanac, April 1876, with illustration of battlefield casualties at Lexington; 1875 poem by John G. Whittier, Lexington, 1775, on verso. Picture ca... More

A child asked--where did I come from? ...

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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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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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[Civil War envelope with poem "I love but thee" in ornamental border]

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[Adm. George Dewey, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in unifo...

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[Collection of 17 poetry broadsides from the Laboratory Press of the C...

Page Order: Pieces 13 and 15 are Leaflets.; On verso of Pieces 4 and 6: Gift, Publishers, June 19, 1929. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as ful... More

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

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

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

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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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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Le malitie delle donne., Florence, Italy, 15th century

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Le malitie delle donne., Florence, Italy, 15th century

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Le malitie delle donne., Florence, Italy, 15th century

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[North Reading Room, west wall. Mural by Ezra Winter illustrating the ...

According to the inscription, this mural on the west wall shows (left to right): "The Miller, in the lead, piping the band out of Southwark; the Host of Tabard Inn; the Knight, followed by his son, the young Sq... More

Yanagi no kezuribana, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the text of two poems. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Kokonotsugiri-ban Nishikie Surimono. Forms part of: Japanes... More

Dryburgh Abbey. Tomb of Sir Walter Scott

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The New Year's address of the Newsmen of the New York Herald.

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

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting the dead body of Adonis lying naked on a rock in the forest. Painting copyright 1899 by H.O. Walker, artist. Copley print copyright 1899 by... More

Prof. Walter Dill Scott - Public domain portrait photograph

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[Pastoral poetry, dramatic poetry, epic poetry]

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[Pastoral poetry, dramatic poetry, epic poetry]

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[Poetry mural, Detroit Public Library, showing writers]

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Abbotsford, the Residence of Sir Walter Scott, Scotland: Exterior

J13854 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Interiors; Libraries; Gt. Britain Scotland Melrose A... More

Portrait of Langston Hughes - safety film negatives, Library of Congre...

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Letter from Archibald MacLeish to T. S. Eliot, October 7, 1944

Archibald MacLeish expresses disappointment that T.S. Eliot has declined his invitation to take the position of Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Unemployment/ monologue

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[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Erato (Love...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Sweetening for English tea - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Light beyond the darkness - African American Perspectives Materials

Harper was a freed African American woman from Baltimore. She rebuts the call of Maurice Thompson for black revenge and an uprising against white society in favor of racial cooperation and harmony. Cover title.... More

The day dream, by Alfred Tennyson

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Soul poems, and other verse,

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Felix Octavius Carr Darley. Longfellow's Evangeline, Public domain boo...

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The wonder clock: - book for children by Howard Pyle

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Poems, undated - Public domain document scan

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Star of the west - American Civil War sheet music

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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[Adm. George Dewey, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in unifo...

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Boston Daily Journal, [newspaper]. May 31, 1865.

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Poetry and prose. Scene at Monument Point, north end of Salt Lake

No. 353. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, Utah. Scenes near the Great Salt Lake.

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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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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Nine poems of Emily Dickinson [sketches]

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Momiji mi sanpukutsui - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: horizontal Oban Benizuri-e. Three Hosoban images on a single sheet. Forms part of: Japanese pr... More

Jakuren Hōshi, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two figures, possibly the two lovers from the poem "Loving two people equally" based on the legend of Unai Otome; one lying on the floor reading (poetry?) is wearing a kimono with oragami cranes dep... More

Katsukawa Shunchō - Hagi - Public domain drawing

Print shows three women in garden setting. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Shūkuawase shiki no hana : Flowers of th... More

Hikitejaya mae no yuki usagi - Public domain drawing

Print shows a person walking to the left, mostly hidden by a snow-covered umbrella, a woman walking to the right, holding a tray with a snow sculpture of a bunny on it, and a woman sitting on a bench at a tea s... More

Sir Walter Scott and his literary friends at Abbotsford / painted by T...

Scott, Mackenzie, Wilson, Crabbe, Lockhart, Wordsworth, Jeffrey, Ferguson, Moore, Allen, Campbell, Wilkie, and Constable seated at table. Engraved for the Eclectic magazine.

[Portrait of Sir Walter Scott] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "13163". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

Lyric poetry south corridor / H.O. Walker, artist.

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting six women in classical garb or nude, one with lyre, and a child. Copyright by H.O. Walker in 1896. Copley print copyright 1897 by Curtis & Cameron.

Crossing the bar - Victorian era public domain image

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So many truths spoken by the Master Poet come to us exhaling the odour...

(DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Great Possessions / David Grayson (Ray Stannard Baker). New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1917, p. 192.

Press Release No. 468, "Robert Frost, Noted American Poet, to Give Rea...

[Portrait of Hurd Hatfield, as Lord Byron in Camino Real]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XV KK 21. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

Thaw - A drawing of a man's face with flowers

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John Russell, of Montcoal, reading a poem entitled "Keeper of the Fore...

Event: Musical Tribute and Testimonial to John Flynn and the mixed mesophytic forest.

Sculpture "The Decisions" and untitled poetry by Rita Dove, at the Rob...

Artist: Larry Kirkland, 1999; Gilded aluminum and dichoric glass measuring 45 feet x 30 feet x 10 inches. Poetry, 1999: etched marble, 12 pieces, each measuring 3 x 2 feet in diameter. Photographed as part of a... More

[South Corridor, Great Hall. Lyric Poetry mural by Henry O. Walker. Li...

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[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Thalia (Com...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) 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

Fairy Lilian and other poems, - Public domain book scan / engraving

Illustrated by Charles Copeland, W. L. Taylor, Edmund H. Garrett and others and engraved under the supervision of George T. Andrew. Also available in digital form.