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| Teodoro Viero Ex Libris with Lion ca. 1770-90 engraving British Museum |
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| William Skelton after Charles Reuben Ryley Hercules Alastor (antique statue in the Charles Townley collection) ca. 1778-1805 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| Pierre-Antoine Martini Portraits of their Majesty's and the Royal Family viewing the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1788 1789 engraving (unmounted fan-leaf shape) British Museum |
Wonderland
Nevertheless, Alice, Plymouth Rock
Was never to be of glass and sand and sea;
Moreover those had been English glass stepping stones
Up onto the House of Lords through the Looking Glass;
That had been a land of glass and sand and steeples;
They'd left England; they'd left a glass Wonderland
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| Jean-Jacques Hubert after Charles Monnet Valmont visits Mme de Tourval's chambermaid at night (for London edition of Les Liaisons Dangereuses) 1796 etching British Museum |
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| J.F. Cazenave Jupiter et Danaé ca. 1790-1820 color stipple-engraving British Museum |
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| William Blake after Michelangelo Joseph of Arimathea among the rocks of Albion ca. 1810-20 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| Johann Gottfried Schadow The Muses Melpomene and Thalia ca. 1823-26 lithograph Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Twin Lakes
In a land of silver bells, of silver deer, of silver ears
Of lakefulness lest there be awakefulness
Morning shivers silver before their ears
Not a sound shivers before their lakefulness
Of awakefulness of doubly morning deer
Trancelike, silently, if ever a silver rustle,
But not a sound creeps before their ears,
Though one lake morning star sees of them
In a land of heavenly lakefulness
Of awakefulness of doubly morning deer
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| H. Biberstein Le Marquis de Sade (book illustration) ca. 1850-1900 engraving- British Museum |
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| William Hooper after Frederick Walker The Woman in White (London theatrical poster, modeled by actress Anne Catherick) 1871 wood-engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| William Edward Frost Man cross-legged on rock (book-illustration) before 1877 etching British Museum |
Cornucopia
Why time stitched a word for a hornet's nest
That said to the little knives there are
That have been offered for a sword in time
Though for the center of the curious circus
Time said to a duncelike being that is ourselves
Yet fiercely that is an angel of another kind
Time sought along a cornucopia vine divergently
Still time said to the little spheres there are
That have been offered for the agony of time
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| Paul Gauguin Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé 1891 etching British Museum |
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| Frédéric Auguste Cazals Poster for Septième Exposition du Salon des Cent (Paul Verlaine and Jean Moréas looking at pictures) 1894 lithograph British Museum |
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| John Copley Pavlova in Le Cygne 1912 lithograph British Museum |
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| Eduardo Paolozzi Has Jazz a Future? 1972 screenprint, lithograph Tate Gallery |
– poems are from A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: the Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (Brooklyn : The Song Cave, 2013)