circa 2000

(1) "Twin Compasses" (Randy Wang, Computer Science Dept., Princeton U.) (1999)

(2) Wanda McGee, with illustrations by Cindy Mueller, Invisible Currents: Natures Lessons for the Mind and Heart (Alexandria, VA: Miles River, 2000):

• "Slowing Down"
• "Awareness"
• "Promise"
  

(3) Andy Goldsworthy, "Sand brought to an edge to catch the morning light, Mount Victor Station, South Australia, 17-18 July 1991"

circa 1800

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "To the River Otter" (1796)

 

17th Century

John Donne, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (1633)

 

16th Century

Emblem Books (xrefer article on emblem books)

• Andrea Alciato, Emblematum liber (Book of Emblems) (1531), example (original in Latin)
• Geoffrey Whitney, Choice of Emblemes (1586), example