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Lilith in Art

Above: Burney relief 1950 BC Lilmerian or Assyrian terra cotta Lilith is identified with the owl in Isaiah 34.

Lilith

Right: Lilith 1892

Kenyon Cox 1856-1919

Wildcats shall meet with hyenas, goat-demons shall call to each other;
there too Lilith shall repose,and find a place to rest.
There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow.
Isaiah 34 14-15

Adam, Lilith & Eve

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.

"Lady Lilith"

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1864-73.

This painting is companion to the poem written by the artist, reprinted below.

Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Wilmington, Delaware.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poem "Lilith,"
Later Published as "Body's Beauty" (1868)

Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told
(The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,)
That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive,
And her enchanted hair was the first gold.

And still she sits, young while the earth is old,
And, subtly of herself contemplative,
Draws men to watch the bright web she can weave,
Till heart and body and life are in its hold.

The rose and poppy are her flower; for where
Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent
And soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare?
Lo! as that youth's eyes burned at thine, so went
Thy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent
And round his heart one strangling golden hair.

To read more of Rossetti's works visit http://lilith.abroadplanet.com/Poetry.php#DANTE