John Atkinson Grimshaw, Autumn Regrets, 1882 I am bound to the King of the Sign of AutumnParting I love the fruits I detest the flowersI regret every one of the kisses that I’ve givenSuch a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showersMy Autumn eternal O my spiritual seasonThe hands of lost lovers juggle with …
John William Waterhouse, Ophelia, 1889 I’ve gathered this sprig of heatherAutumn is dead you will rememberOn earth we’ll see no more of each otherFragrance of time sprig of heatherRemember I wait for you forever Ho colto questo filo di brughieraricordati che l’autunno è mortonon ci vedremo più sulla terraodore del tempo filo di brughieraricorda ancora …
George Frederic Watts, Hope, 1886 Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips awayAnd loversMust I be remindedJoy came always after pain The night is a clock chimingThe days go by not I We’re face to face and hand in handWhile under the bridgesOf embrace expireEternal tired tidal eyes The night is a clock chimingThe days go …
Paris Bordone, Allegory with Mars, Venus, Flora and Cupid, 1560 ca The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world’s delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is! Friendship how rare! Love, how it sells poor …
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Auguste Raynaud, Night, 1886 ca Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of lightspeed thee in thy fiery flight,in what cavern of the nightwill thy pinions close now?Tell me, Moon, thou pale and gray pilgrim of Heaven’s homeless way,in what depth of night or dayseekest thou repose now?Weary Wind, who wanderestlike the world’s rejected guest, hast thou still …
Sandro Botticelli, Spring, 1478 Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory – odours, when sweet violets sicken, live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, are heap’d for the beloved’s bed; and so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, love itself shall slumber on. La musica, quando le …
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