On my poetry blog today I have posted Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Sea-Spell", which portrays a Siren.

In Greek mythology, the Sirens were three dangerous bird-women, portrayed as seductresses, who lived on an island called Sirenum scopuli.

Sailors who sailed near the cliffs were lured by the Sirens' enchanting music and voices to wreck their ships on the rocky coast.

I am turning to another Pre-Raphaelite, John William Waterhouse, who illustrated the same subject.

The_Siren

The Siren
John William Waterhouse

Note: John William Waterhouse (6 April 1849 — 10 February 1917) was an English Pre-Raphaelitepainter who is most famous for his paintings of female characters from Greek and Arthurian mythology.

Waterhouse was one of the final Pre-Raphaelite artists, being most productive in the latter decades of the 19th century and early decades of the 20th, long after the era of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Because of this, he has been referred to as "the modern Pre-Raphaelite", and incorporated techniques borrowed from the French Impressionists into his work.