Eduard Steinbruck, Cupid and Psyche, 1856 I hate the cyclic poem, nor do I take pleasure in the road which carries many to and fro. I abhor, too, the roaming lover, and I drink not from every well ; I loathe all common things. Lysanias, thou art, yea, fair, fair: but ere Echo has quite …
Alphonse Legros, Cupid and Psyche, 1867 Such a day! Alike this beautiful day, when love, to lose everything, flared up. Such a day of heavenly charity when eternity walks in the blue air, when earth plays and feel younger again, free from its tiring weight. It was everywhere as a motherly kiss; a long dream …
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore – Fu un giorno / Such a day Read More »
Nicolas Colombel, Psyche Abandoned by Cupid, c. 1699 As a miser guards his treasure, I guarded my pain; I wanted to prove there was something as eternal as the eternal love she swore to me. But today I call in vain and hear the time that has passed, say: “Ah, miserable mud, eternally you will …
Elisabetta Sirani, Love and Psyche, c.1650 Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou wak’d’st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok’st not, but continued’st it. Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice To make dreams truths, and fables histories; Enter these …
Maurice Denis, Psyche discovers that her mysterious lover is Eros, 1908 Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired: For then my thoughts–from far where I abide– Intend a zealous …
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