Poetry Literature Collection

A Scene From Evangeline
A scene of Acadians (French settlers of the Canadian Maritime Provinces) as they dance and frolic to a fiddlers tune while a clergyman looks on in an illustration (after F.O.C)

Sophocles ( circa 496a'406 bc ), Greek playwright. His seven surviving plays are notable for their complexity of plot and depth of characterization

Homer - Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He is the greatest ancient Greek epic poets. When he lived is not exactly known. It is estimated about 770 - 700 BC

Entertainment for the king
Illustration of a Entertainment for the king

Bards before the king
Illustration of a Bards before the king

Aesop, an ancient Greek fabulist and story teller (620a'564 BC)
Illustration of a Aesop, an ancient Greek fabulist and story teller (620a'564 BC)

Light poetry, by James Pradier
Illustration of Light poetry, by James Pradier

A Scene From Longfellows Evangeline
Engraving illustrates a scene from Henry Wadsworth Longfellows Evangeline in which the two separated lovers, Evangeline and Gabriel

Byrons Dream
A wanderer rests among ancient columns in a scene from Byrons poem The Dream, 1816. An illustration of the lines and in the last he lay Reposing from the noontide sultriness

Santa visits in the night, What a wonderful sight note and pen

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