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| Bernard Lens the younger Portrait miniature of Colonel Thomas Weld 1718 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Joseph Groupy Portrait miniature of unknown sculptor 1730 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait miniature of Robert, Lord Walpole (elder brother of Horace) ca. 1730-40 watercolor on ivory (painted in Venice) Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Gustavus Hamilton Portrait miniature of unknown man 1768 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
Walden House
Are you a fierce nomad?
Are you a friend of sword and disaster?
Do you know of the only star in heaven?
Do you know of only the sun's daily sword
That pushed the scorched wagon wheels forward?
Are you a goldhunter?
Are you a Scythian mountebank?
Are you a plainsman who fled the plains?
Will you recross the deserted desert airways?
Or are you a Walden traveler?
Do you have your meals at the Walden House?
Do you read your wanton heels to your shoemaker?
Are you a city traveler?
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| Jeremiah Meyer Portrait miniature of Francis Charteris 1771 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Jeremiah Meyer Portrait miniature of unknown man ca. 1780 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| George Engleheart Portrait miniature of a captain of infantry ca. 1780 pigment on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Adam Buck Portrait miniature of unknown man ca. 1780-1830 pigment on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
Of Such Sun Stuff
of such sun stuff
that sang the merrier tunes
for the golden canary bird
that traversed the sunlight
throughout the morning parlor
nevertheless one's fears
are made of such sun stuff
that are a tiger's burning brands in the darkening jungle
that discovered the golden beetle
that flew to the voice of gunpowder
that destroyed the summer harvests
that flew to tyrannical commands in the boom distance
that wanted only the roar of the light of day
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| James Scouler Portrait miniature of an officer of the merchant navy 1781 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| John Bogle Portrait miniature of unknown man 1790 pigment on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Andrew Robertson Portrait miniature of Alexander Skene 1805 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| John Comerford Portrait miniature of Charles Farran 1805 pigment on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
Books
lend us a scholarly hand
over the oil for the lamps of China
lend us time
lend us rags for wonderful pleasures
lend us a bookshelf
lend us a little care
with the scholarly Aladdin
who wished for fewer leaves for earnings
who wished for more books for buttonhooks
on the reasonable bookshelf
over the burning autumnal dusks
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| George Henry Harlow Miniature Self-portrait 1818 watercolor on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Thomas Heathfield Carrick Portrait miniature of George Lance ca. 1850 pigment on ivory Victoria & Albert Museum |
– poems are from A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: the Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (Brooklyn : The Song Cave, 2013)