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Frontispiece from The Song of Los, William Blake
image credit: Library of Congress

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Li Bai strolling. Ink on paper, by Liang K'ai (13th century).
image credit: public domain

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Goethe in the Roman Campagna (1786) by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
image credit: public domain

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Illustration from Jami's Rose Garden of the Pious, 1553. A Persian miniature painting with verses.
image credit: Zereshk

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Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante Aligheri's Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: Arrival of Charon. "And lo! towards us coming in a boat / An old man, hoary with the hair of eld, / Crying: 'Woe unto you, ye souls depraved!'" (Longfellow's translation) "And, lo! toward us in a bark / Comes an old man, hoary white with eld, / Crying "Woe to you, wicked spirits!" (Cary's translation)
image credit: public domain

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American poet Walt Whitman in 1884 at the age of 65. Photograph by George C. Cox
image credit: public domain

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Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony (circa 1882)
image credit: public domain

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Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé by Édouard Manet.
image credit: Édouard Manet, 1876, Musée d'Orsay

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Early version (partial) of Goethe's Faust (1790)
image credit: public domain

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The ceiling of the Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Iran.
image credit: Pentocelo

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"Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry", by Charles Meynier (1789-1800)
image credit: public domain

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Door with inscription, Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas, a form of palindrome
image credit: © Guillaume Piolle / CC-BY-3.0

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Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, engraving by I.H. Jones (1825)
image credit: public domain

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French poet and Symbolist painter Albert Aurier
image credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France

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French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau
image credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France

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French poet Stéphane Mallarmé
image credit: Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Italian poet Pietro Bembo by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1532-1537)
image credit: public domain

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Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat (circa 1862)
image credit: public domain

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Inferno, Dante, verso 21, translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
image credit: M0tty

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Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1810)
image credit: public domain

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Theatrical poster for The Raven, 1908
image credit: Library of Congress

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What If, poem by Andrew Motion, building, Sheffield, England
image credit: Rept0n1x

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Concrete poem by George Herbert (1633)
image credit: public domain

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Satirical cartoon about the Volstead Act, based on Mother Goose children's nursery rhymes, 1922
image credit: public domain

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Nonsense verse and illustration by Edward Lear, from A Book of Nonsense I
image credit: public domain

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Plaque with poem by Lucille Clifton
image credit: Kathleen Conklin

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Akashi Gidayu writing his death poem before committing Seppuku
image credit: public domain

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"Poesis", Raffaello Morghen, circa 1781
image credit: public domain

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Elisa von der Recke
image credit: Username

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Robert Burns, by Archibald Skirving
image credit: public domain

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Paul Verlaine as a troubador, by Frédéric Bazille
image credit: public domain

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De rerum natura, Lucretius
image credit: Username

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Virgil. The mosaic, which dates from the 3rd Century A.D., was discovered in the Hadrumetum in Sousse, Tunisia
image credit: Giorces

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Byblis, William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)
image credit: public domain

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Opening page, Metamorphoses, Ovid (1567 edition)
image credit: public domain

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American poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (1975)
image credit: Nancy Wong

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Rita Dove
image credit: Eduardo Montes-Bradley

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John Keats, by William Hilton
image credit: public domain

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Bust of Arthur Rimbaud
image credit: Sidsmeets

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Ovid and his muse, by Gustave Moreau
image credit: public domain

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Bust of Homer, Roman copy of an ancient Greek original
image credit: JW1805

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Una and the lion, from The Faerie Queene by Robert Spencer[disambiguation needed]
image credit: public domain

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Anna Akhmatova
image credit: public domain

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Gertrude Stein, by Pablo Picasso (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Picture taken in April 2004)
image credit: public domain (in the United States)

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Bust of Sappho (Roman copy of an ancient Greek original)
image credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen

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Marina Tsvetaeva
image credit: public domain

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
image credit: public domain

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Christina Rossetti, by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti
image credit: public domain

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Page from the Mathnavi by Rumi
image credit: public domain

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A copy of Du Fu's poem "Zui Ge Xing" by Dong Qichang
image credit: public domain

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