Piero di Cosimo, The Myth of Prometheus, 1515 But errs not Nature from this gracious end,from burning suns when livid deaths descend,when earthquakes swallow, or when tempests sweeptowns to one grave, whole nations to the deep?“No, (’tis replied) the first Almighty Causeacts not by partial, but by gen’ral laws;th’ exceptions few; some change since all …
Vincent van Gogh, The Drinkers (after Honoré Daumier), 1890 Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and never brought to mind?Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and days of auld lang syne?And days of auld lang syne, my dear,and days of auld lang syne.Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and days of auld lang syne?We twa hae run aboot the braesand pu’d …
Robert Burns – Vecchi tempi andati / Auld Lang Syne Read More »
Adam Elsheimer, The Flight into Egypt, 1609 If but some vengeful god would call to mefrom up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing,know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,that thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!”Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;half-eased in that a powerfuller …
Pompeo Mariani, Le perdute a Montecarlo, 1909 Ei! merry companions,your madness infects me.My whole soul rises and falls and leaps and tumbles with you!I shout aloud and incite you, o white-headed merry companions.The sight of you alone is better than drinking.The brazen band is loosened from off my forehead;my breast and my brain are moistened …
Robert Louis Stevenson – Allegre compagne / Merry companions Read More »
Jacob Hoefnagel, Orpheus charming the animals, 1613 My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky:so was it when my life began;so is it now I am a man;so be it when I shall grow old,or let me die!The Child is father of the Man;and I could wish my days to bebound each …
Hans Andersen Brendekilde, Springtime, the first anemones, 1889 How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold?Because the lovely little flower is freedown to its root, and, in that freedom, bold;and so the grandeur of the Forest-treecomes not by casting in a formal mould,but from its own divine vitality. Come il fiore del prato si spiega in …
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