Albert Decaris (1901-1988)...illustration for Four Plays by Christopher Marlowe, 1966

Alexandre Graverol (1865-1949) ....Paul Verlaine at the Broussais Hospital ...watercolour and ink on wove paper 1895

Happy Vernal Equinox! Image : Jacques LeMoyne de Morgues (1533–1588) Young Daughter of the Picts, watercolour and gouache, touched with gold on parchment c1585

Jean Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950) ... illustration for Femmes by Paul Verlaine, woodcut 1917

Jean Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950) ... illustration for Charles Baudelaires 'Les fleurs du mal', woodcut

Henry Chapront (1876 - 1965) ... Illustrations for Baudelaire: Le voyage à Cythére

Raoul Dal Molin Ferenzona (1879 -1946) ... Uriel, torch of God, 1943.

Beresford Egan (1905-1984) ~ illustration for De Sade, Being a series of wounds, inflicted with Brush and Pen, upon Sadistic Wolves garbed in Masochists' Wool 1929

Thomas Theodor Heine (1867–1948) ~ Illustration to Knut Hamsun, Slaves of Love, 1902

Alberto Martini (1876-1954)... illustration for Edgar Allan Poe Poem

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? - Edgar Allan Poe (1809- 1849)

image: Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe Poem by Alberto Martini (1876-1954)

Jef Van Tuerenhout (1926-2006) ...etching, Lilith 2 1979

Augusto Camerini Roma (1894 - 1972) ... La Vittoriosa, mixed media on paper 1915

Chris Lebeau (1878 - 1945)... Skull, Chalk and charcoal on paper, gouache 1917

Pierre Louys (1870-1925)...Trois filles de leur mère 1926

Axl Leskoschek ~ Musik, woodcut 1979

Axl Leskoschek ~ illustration for a collection of poems by Erich Fitzbauer, woodcut 1979

Bernd Streiter ... for Georg Trakl, with Black Angel drypoint 1989

Bernd Streiter

Eugène Modeste Edmond Le Poitevin...Les Diables de Lithographies... 1832

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Maurice de Becque... illustrations... La Satire sur les femmes de Juvénal... 1923

Louis Marcoussis...illustrations for Guillaume Apollinaire's Alcohol... 1913

The Betrothal, etching, plate 29 from Alcools, 1934

“And the solitary cord of sea lutes.”

Singer, plate eight from Alcools, 1934

Moonlight, plate 30 from Alcools, 1934

Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened

The orchards and towns are greedy tonight

The stars appear like the image of bees

Of this luminous honey that offends the vines

For now all sweet in their fall from the sky

Each ray of moonlight’s a ray of honey

Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure

I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee

that sets these deceptive rays in my hands

And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds

Lul of Faltenin, plate eighteen from Alcools, 1934

Rosemonde, plate 21 from Alcools, 1934

I named her Rosemonde

Lest I forget

Mouth flowered in Holland

Then slowly I took my way

Seeking the rose of the world

May Den Engelsen... illustrations...Charles Baudelaire's Condemned Poems... 1927

Lesbos

Mother of Latin games and Greek delights,

Lesbos, where kisses, languishing or joyous,

Burning as the sun's light, cool as melons,

Adorn the nights and the glorious days;

Mother of Latin games and Greek delights,

Lesbos, where the kisses are like cascades 

That throw themselves boldly into bottomless chasms 

And flow, sobbing and gurgling intermittently, 

Stormy and secret, teeming and profound; 

Lesbos, where the kisses are like cascades!

Lesbos, where courtesans feel drawn toward each other,

Where for every sigh there is an answering sigh,

The stars admire you as much as Paphos,

And Venus may rightly be jealous of Sappho!

Lesbos, where courtesans feel drawn toward each other,

Lesbos, land of hot and languorous nights,

That make the hollow-eyed girls, amorous

Of their own bodies, caress before their mirrors

The ripe fruits of their nubility, O sterile pleasure!

    Lesbos, land of hot and languorous nights...

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Illustrations from Condemned Poems illustrated by May Den Engelsen, published 1927

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