above: From Oliver Byrne’s 1847 “Elements of Euclid”

Old Euclid drew a circle On a sand-beach long ago. He bounded and enclosed it With angles thus and so. His set of solemn greybeards Nodded and argued much Of arc and circumference, Diameter and such. A silent child stood by them From morning until noon Because they drew such charming Round pictures of the moon.

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Silent film star Theda Bara, "The first vamp." (1885-1955) in a publicity still for the 1915 film A Fool There Was. This film was based on Rudyard Kipling's 1897 poem "The Vampire" which explores the popular fin de siècle trope of the destructive allure of the femme fatale or "vampire;" You can read the poem in its entirety by clicking here...

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This illustrated edition of William Roscoe's poem "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast" was published in Great Britain around 1860. (This is the best guess of the Baldwin Library, which houses the book.) The illustrator is not known.

The Garden

Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anæmia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.

-Ezra Pound