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| David Levine Woman's Head 1957 oil on board Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Pier Fire 1967 watercolor on board Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Richard Nixon 1973 offset-print (poster) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Mark Rothko on Turner (Rothko famously said, "Turner learned alot from me") 1966 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Willem de Kooning 1975 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Jackson Pollock 1975 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Federico Fellini 1970 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Francis Bacon 1965 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Gertrude Stein 1966 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Alice B. Toklas 1974 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Marcel Duchamp 1972 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Diana Vreeland 1984 drawing National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Thomas Mann 1975 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Thomas Eakins 1972 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Robert McNamara 1995 ink and watercolor on paper National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| David Levine Self Portrait 1969 drawing Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
from To the People of Rome, Commiserating the Common-Wealth, in respect of the Civill Warres
Now Civill Warres a second Age consume,
And Romes owne Sword destroyes poore Rome.
What neither neighbouring Marsians could devoure,
Nor fear'd Porsenas Thuscan Pow'r;
Nor Capua's Rivall Valour, Mutinies
Of Bond-slaves, Trechery of Allyes;
Nor Germany (blew-ey'd Bellona's Nurse)
Nor Haniball (the Mothers curse)
Wee (a blood-thirsty age) our selves deface,
And Wolves shall repossesse this place.
The barb'rous Foe will trample on our dead,
The steele-shod Horse our Courts will tread;
And Romulus dust (clos'd in religious Urne
From Sunne and tempest) proudly spurne.
All, or the sounder part, perchance would know,
How to avoid this comming blow.
'Twere best I thinke (like to the Phoceans,
Who left their execrated Lands,
And Houses, and the Houses of their Gods,
To Wolves and Beares for their abodes;)
T'abandon all, and goe where e're our feet
Beare us by Land, by Sea our Fleet.
Can any man better advice affoord?
If not, in name of Heav'n Aboard!
– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by Richard Fanshawe (1648)