Featured Victorian Rebus Puzzle Cards - Hand Drawn

With Bookahtoo's identification of the "wheat stalk/freather"" as a quill pen #8 (Small Change) would be "pennies."

Could #10 be "delighted" (D+ candle as "light")?

Perhaps #11 could be "stunner" (sun+R)? Not sure about that. R+sun reads re-sun/reason, which does not fit the clue. And the rays do not define a complete sun circle ("rays, "halo," "aura"?). Dazzle-R?

 

Paradise (pair of dice.) Arrayed.

 

Yep, yep. And penmanship & miller.

 

Also yep.

 

Could this be the poem?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By The River

FLOW on, ye lays so loved, so fair,

On to Oblivion's ocean flow!
May no rapt boy recall you e'er,

No maiden in her beauty's glow!

My love alone was then your theme,

But now she scorns my passion true.
Ye were but written in the stream;

As it flows on, then, flow ye too!

 

It wouldn't really be a rebus, but once I stopped seeing Alice and the Pool of Tears, I considered more what else could be depicted that was a famous poem. Went looking for something with a title along the lines of 'by the river' & this was top of AI's results. The table where the letters were written, the epistles being washed away, the candle that has connections with both inspiration & nighttime labors. It's Goethe, it's short. I can imagine kids having to learn it once upon a time. Largely conjecture, but it hangs together fairly well.

In some of the others wish I knew what the drawing was supposed to be. Are those sheep on a hill? Ewes?

 

- Anyone

 

Man wants but little here below

 

#1 Supereminent (Soup R EM in ENT)

 

Could the poem be Paradise Lost?