Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol in the Garden in Argenteuil, 1875 Once when I walked through the fields so still, to quit life’s turmoil, that was my will. There stood a flower at once so near that all my life saw I none so dear. I would have picked it, the flower to cherish, …
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Mentre andavo / Found Read More »
Odilon Redon, The Boat (Virgin with Corona), 1897 Silence deep rules o’er the waters, calmly slumb’ring lies the main, while the sailor views with trouble nought but one vast level plain. Not a zephyr is in motion! Silence fearful as the grave! In the mighty waste of ocean sunk to rest is ev’ry wave. Regna …
John Simmons, Hermia and Lysander, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1873 Now I leave this cottage lowly, where my love hath made her home, and with silent footstep slowly through the darksome forest roam, Luna breaks through oaks and bushes, Zephyr hastes her steps to meet, and the waving birch-tree blushes, scattering round her incense …
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – La notte / The night Read More »
Benvenuto Benvenuti, The birth of Venus, 1907 Thou art amazed, and dost point to the ocean. It seems to be burning;flame – crested billows in play dart round our nightmoving bark.Me it astonisheth not, – of the ocean was born Aphrodite, –did not a flame, too, proceed from her for us, in her son? Tu …
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, 1885 Ah, my maiden is going! she mounts the vessel! My monarch, Aeolus! Potentate dread! Keep ev’ry storm far away! “Oh, thou fool!” cried the god: “ne’er fear the blustering tempest; when Love flutters his wings, then mayst thou dread the soft breeze”. Ah, la mia diletta …
Emilio Longoni, Armonie del ruscello, 1903 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! Sperdetevi …
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Al fiume / By the river Read More »
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