From The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1899.

Q: Why do photographers love windows?

A: Every window [is] crushed between two frames of time. —William Keckler

The magic song from Half-Past Bedtime by Henry Howarth Bashford, 1922.

An illustration from a 1908 issue of The Windsor magazine.  The caption reads: "'Who be they, mother?' asked the child in an awed whisper."

An illustration from Clear as the Noon Day by Ethel Penrose (1893).  The caption reads: "Paul tried to peer into the gathering darkness."

Hundreds of years before the phenomenon of walking while texting, folks were glued to windows, insensible to the wonders around them.  We find proof in Arthur's Home Magazine, 1876.  The caption reads: "She stood leaning against a window, but not seeing the beauty that lay stretched before her."

An illustration from Etidorhpa, or The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of the Initiate's Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd (1895).  The caption reads: "Facing the open window he turned the pupils of his eyes upward."

"The sky is pocked with stars.  What eyes the wise men must have had to see a new one in so many.  I wonder, were there fewer stars then?  I don't know.  I fancy there's a mystery in it." —The Lion in Winter

Our illustration appears in Pleasant Hours, 1887.

Here's a surprising bit of Hermeticism from Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, 1885.  A lady faces the setting sun and transmits a thought-message toward the light as she touches a dog's head.  The Greek god Hermes (a.k.a. the Roman Mercury and the Egyptian Thoth) is a solar messenger.  The Egyptians of course represented him with a dog's head.

An illustration from an 1887 issue of Life magazine.

An illustration from an 1876 issue of Peterson's magazine.  The caption reads: "Oh! Pitiless! Pitiless Moon!"

An illustration from a 1911 issue of Harper's magazine.

An illustration from an 1864 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Soft shineth the moon."

An illustration from a 1907 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "There she waited while the dawn stole upon the night."

An illustration from a 1909 issue of Hampton's magazine.  The caption reads: "It was Mrs. Dooby's pleasure to sit for long hours looking out of a window."

An illustration from an 1869 issue of Harper's magazine.

An illustration from an 1884 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "He stood looking out into the night."