# Roemer with a poem to Constantijn Huygens

- By: anonymous
- Date: 1619
- Medium: glass
- Classification: roemer
- Dimensions: diameter 6.2 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-1983-15--940408d1f9617eda6de7b6c1a75ff609)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/Wdqmv/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Anna Roemers Visscher engraved one of her own poems on a wine glass as a gift for Constantijn Huygens. The verses contain both a lament and a request: her pen has run dry, and her mind has turned to rust. She asks Huygens to fetch her some water from Helicon – home of the Muses – so that her ink will flow freely and she can write poems once again.