Harald Slott-Moller, Spring, 1896 After dark vapours have oppressed our plains For a long dreary season, comes a day Born of the gentle South, and clears away From the sick heavens all unseemly stains. The anxious month, relieved of its pains, Takes as a long-lost right the feel of May; The eyelids with the passing …
Ignacio Diaz Olano, Love in the forest, 1900 ca- O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth, tasting of Flora and the country green, dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, full of the true, the blushful …
John Keats – Ode a un usignolo / Ode to a Nightingale Read More »
Charles Edward Perugini, Lovers in a garden, 1900 ca O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown, And the riches of Flora are lavishly strown; The air is all softness, and chrystal the streams, And the west is resplendently cloathed in beams. We will hasten, my fair, to the opening glades, The quaintly carv’d …
Edward Burne-Jones, Love among the ruins, 1894 No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss’d by nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine; make not your rosary of yew-berries, nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl a …
John Keats- Ode on Melancholy/Ode alla Malinconia Read More »
Ivan Aivazovsky, Among the waves, 1898 Here lies one whose name was writ in water. (John Keats’ Epitaph) Qui giace uno il cui nome fu scritto sull’acqua. (Epitaffio di John Keats) Go back to album – J. Keats
Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Diana, 1879 Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightand watching, with eternal lids apart,like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,the moving waters at their priestlike taskof pure ablution round earth’s human shores,or gazing on the new soft-fallen maskof snow upon the mountains and the moors—no—yet …
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