The Kiss Of The Sphinx By Franz Von Stuck (1895)

Eldorado

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—

This knight so bold—

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength

Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—

"Shadow," said he,

"Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains

Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldly ride,"

The shade replied—

"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Edward Allen Poe

El Dorado, from The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edmund Dulac (1912)

“Odalisque” (detail), Guillaume Seignac.

Swamp Thing by Charles Vess

Peek-a-boob

“Hand in hand, with fairy grace,

Will we sing, and bless this place.”

Illustration of Titania’s instruction to her fairy train in the last scene of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

c. 1784

Watercolour and graphite on paper

Norman Lindsay (Norman Alfred William Lindsay) (Australian, 1879 - 1969) - Afternoon Bathers

picture resolution 1185 × 1600

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