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| Ancient Roman Culture Emperor wearing Cuirasse 1st-2nd century AD marble Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Muse 1st century AD marble Museo Nacionale de Arte Romano, Mérida |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Peplophore 1st century BC-1st century AD marble Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Venus 1st-2nd century AD marble Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Youth 2nd century AD marble North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Diadumenos AD 130-140 marble Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Dionysus 1st century AD marble Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Dionysus 1st century BC-1st century AD marble Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Dionysus 27 BC-AD 68 marble Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Emperor as Jupiter 1st century AD marble North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Eros stringing Bow 2nd century AD marble Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Man wearing Chlamys 1st-2nd century AD marble Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Pan 1st century BC-1st century AD marble Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Venus 1st century AD marble Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Youth 1st-2nd century AD marble Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève |
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| Ancient Roman Culture Youth 1st century AD marble Seattle Art Museum |
Vespers
End of August. Heat
like a tent over
John's garden. And some things
have the nerve to be getting started,
have the nerve to be getting started,
clusters of tomatoes, stands
of late lilies – optimism
of late lilies – optimism
of the great stalks – imperial
gold and silver: but why
start anything
so close to the end?
Tomatoes that will never ripen, lilies
winter will kill, that won't
come back in spring. Or
are you thinking
I spend too much time
looking ahead, like
an old woman wearing
sweaters in summer;
are you saying I can
flourish, having
no hope
of enduring? Blaze of the red cheek, glory
of the open throat, white,
spotted with crimson.
– Louise Glück (1992)