Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Immaculate Conception, 1678 The moon was saddening. Seraphim in tears dreaming, bow in hand, in the calm of vaporous flowers were drawing from dying violins white sobs gliding down over blue corollas. – It was the blessed day of your first kiss. My dreaming loving to torment me was drinking …
Paul Baudry, The pearl and the wave, 1862 Crushed by the overwhelming cloud depth of basalt and lavas by even the enslaved echoes of a trumpet without power what sepulchral shipwreck (you know it, slobbering there, foam) among hulks the supreme one flattened the naked mast too or that which, furious mistake of some noble …
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Wassily Kandinsky, The golden sail, 1903 The flesh is sad, alas! – and I’ve read all the books. Let’s go! Far off. Let’s go! I sense that the birds, intoxicated, fly deep into unknown spume and sky! Nothing – not even old gardens mirrored by eyes – can restrain this heart that drenches itself in …
Johann Heinrich Füssli, The nightmare, 1781 I don’t come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast in whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir in your foul tresses a mournful tempest beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour: a heavy sleep without those dreams that creep under curtains alien to remorse, I …
John William Godward, Nude on the beach, 1922 The sun, on the sand, O sleeping wrestler, warms a languid bath in the gold of your hair, melting the incense on your hostile features, mixing an amorous liquid with the tears. The immutable calm of this white burning, o my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly, …
Fitz Henry Lane, Lumber schooners at evening on Penobscot Bay,1863 To the sole task of voyaging beyond an India dark and splendid – Goes time’s messenger, this greeting, cape that your stern has doubled as on some low yard plunging along with the vessel riding skimmed in constant frolicking a bird bringing fresh tidings that …
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