Eric Ravilious Golden Cockerel Press 1932 wood engraving (cover of prospectus) British Museum |
Eric Ravilious Robert Gibbings as Ganymede 1931 wood engraving (illustration for Golden Cockerel Press prospectus) British Museum |
Thomas Bewick Moor Buzzard ca. 1800 wood engraving (book-illustration) Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
Leonhard Beck The White King 1517 woodcut and letterpress (book illustration) North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
Theodor Galle after Peter Paul Rubens Plate from Opticorum by Franciscus Aguilon ca. 1613 engraving (book illustration) British Museum |
Theodor Galle after Peter Paul Rubens Plate from Opticorum by Franciscus Aguilon ca. 1613 engraving (book illustration) British Museum |
Basil Besler Gemstones 1616 engraving (book illustration) Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
Carl Wilhelm von Heideck The Abduction 1817 watercolor on paper (illustration to poem of Gottfried August Bürger) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Carl Wilhelm von Heideck The Wild Hunter 1817 watercolor on paper (illustration to poem of Gottfried August Bürger) Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Girolamo Porro Emblem with Oyster 1586 etching (book illustration) Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
Johann Bergmann von Olpe (printer) Ships of Fools 1497 hand-colored woodcut and letterpress (book illustration) North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
Johann Heinrich Lips after Anton Raphael Mengs Head of Christ 1777 etching (book illustration) Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
Johann Heinrich Lips Portrait of artist Benjamin West 1779 etching (book illustration) Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
Richard Hamilton Stately Plump Buck Mulligan 1948 watercolor and ink on paper (illustration for Joyce's Ulysses) British Museum |
Richard Hamilton Leopold Bloom 1949 drypoint (illustration for Joyce's Ulysses) British Museum |
Gayle Porter Hoskins The Winning Chance by Elizabeth Dejeans 1909 oil on canvas (book illustration) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
The Tree House
The pail droops on chain, rotten,
Where the well's been
Rinsed with bog, as round and round
The reed-weed rockets down Deer Island
Amid frosted spheres of acid: berry pick-
ing. All day long I watched the land break
Up into the ocean. Happened long ago,
And lost – what isn't – bits of jetty go
Their private ways, or sink, trailing water.
Little's left. Past this window where
My mother's basil drowned
In salad, I can see our orchard, balsams
Clenched around their birds. The basil flourished on
Neglect. Open my room, trees. Child's come.
– Louise Glück (1968)