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| Joseph Maria Kaiser Poppy ca. 1875 watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Anonymous German Artist Tile with art nouveau Poppy Motif ca. 1900 glazed earthenware Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund |
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| Jan Brazda Victory Bouquet 1945 drawing (study for woodcut) Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Annie Bergman Sweet Peas ca. 1935 color woodblock print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Adrien Bas Jar with Bleeding-Heart Blossoms 1918 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Stella Lodge LaMond Amaryllis 1944 pochoir (stencil print) Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Heinrich Nauen Rhododendron in Yellow Vase ca. 1919 oil on canvas Clemens-Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany |
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| attributed to Albrecht Dürer Bunch of Violets ca. 1490-1500 watercolor and gouache on vellum Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Oscar Björck Flower Still Life ca. 1896 resin paint on panel Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Gustaf Wernersson Cronquist Untitled (Dahlias) ca. 1925 autochrome Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Jan Altink Chrysanthemums 1908 oil on canvas Groninger Museum, Netherlands |
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| Michael Peter Ancher Girl with Sunflowers 1889 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Erich Heckel Sunflowers 1913 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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| Jan Sluijters Flowering Branch of Magnolia 1926 oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Erik Werenskiold Lilies of the Valley 1894 watercolor on paper Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Wilhelm Leibl Study of Hand with Carnation ca. 1880 oil on panel Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
Though the monument be of Parian marble, and polished by the mason's straight rule, it is not a good man's. Do not, good sir, estimate the dead by the stone. The stone is senseless and can cover a foul black corpse as well as any other. Here lies that weak rag the body of Eunicides and rots under the ashes.
Who is there that has not suffered the extremity of woe, weeping for a son? But the house of Posidippus buried all four, taken from him in four days by death, that cut short all his hopes for them. The father's mourning eyes drenched with tears have lost their sight, and one may say that a common night now holds them all.
I know not whether to blame Bacchus or the rain; both are treacherous for the feet. For this tomb holds Polyxenus who once, returning from the country after a banquet, fell from the slippery hillside. Far from Aeolian Smyrna he lies. Let everyone at night when drunk dread the rain-soaked path.
On the winter snow melting at the top of her house it fell in and killed old Lysidice. Her neighbors of the village did not make her a tomb of earth dug up for the purpose, but put her house itself over her as a tomb.
On thy head I will heap the cold shingle of the beach, shedding it on thy cold corpse. For never did thy mother wail over thy tomb or see the sea-battered body of her shipwrecked son. But the desert and inhospitable strand of the Aegean shore received thee. So take this little portion of sand, stranger, and many a tear; for fated was the journey on which thou didst set out to trade.
Euphorion, the exquisite writer of verse, lies by these long walls of the Piraeus. Offer to the initiated singer a pomegranate or apple or myrtle-berries,* for in his life he loved them.
– from Book VI (Sepulchral Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)
*they were all used in the mysteries