Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Girl with a Mandolin, 1870 Leaf-strewing gales Utter low wails Like violins,— Till on my soul Their creeping dole Stealthily wins…. Days long gone by! In such hour, I, Choking and pale, Call you to mind,— Then like the wind Weep I and wail. And, as by wind Harsh and unkind, Driven …
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 …
Vittorio Matteo Corcos, In the garden, 1892 Of all the downfalls in the world, the flutter of an Autumn leaf grows grievous by suggesting grief: who thought, when Spring was first unfurled, of this? The wide world lay empearled; who thought of frost that nips the world? Sigh on, my ditty. There lurk a hundred …
Christina Rossetti – Vanità delle vanità / Vanity of Vanities Read More »
Jean Delville, The School of Silence, 1929 Lord: it is time. The summer was immense. Lay your shadow on the sundials and let loose the wind in the fields. Bid the last fruits to be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them to ripeness, and chase the last sweetness into the heavy …
Rainer Maria Rilke – Giorno d’Autunno / Autumn Day Read More »
Santiago Rusiñol, Road in autumn, 1888 Seeing the leaves fall tears me inside especially those falling on boulevards especially chestnut leaves especially if kids are around especially if the sky is clear especially if I’ve got good news that day especially if my heart doesn’t ache that day and I believe my love loves me especially …
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