Poets

This portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson, painted by Thomas Sully, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

View of Kyoyochi pond with stone bridge on the grounds of Ryoanji temple in Kyoto, Japan.

Photo of Bon Echo Rock ("Big Rock") whose sheer granite face was dedicated to Walt Whitman in 1919 and inscribed as follows: "Old Walt, 1819-1919,Dedicated to the democratic ideals of Walt Whitman by Horace Trubel and Flora Macdonald -"My foothold is ten'd and martised in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution And I know the amplitude of time." The Rock is situated at the junction of the Upper and Lower Mazinaw Lakes on Ontario High 41, Canada. The people sitting at the base of the rock are unidentified. On the back of the photo is an inscription to Harry S.