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 …
Johann Heinrich Füssli, A Nightmare leaves the bed of two sleeping girls, 1793 I bring you the child of an Idumean night! Black, with pale naked bleeding wings, Light through the glass, burnished with gold and spice, through panes, still dismal, alas, and cold as ice, hurled itself, daybreak, against the angelic lamp. Palm-leaves! And …
Max Klinger, Death, c. 1903 Her pure nails on high dedicating their onyx, anguish, at midnight, supports, a lamp-holder, many a twilight dream burnt by the Phoenix that won’t be gathered in some ashes’ amphora on a table, in the empty room: here is no ptyx, abolished bauble of sonorous uselessness, (since the Master’s …
Stephane Mallarmè – Her pure nails on high dedicating their onyx Read More »
Stephane Mallarmè was a major French symbolist poet. His work inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.
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