Dream

William Butler Yeats – Dopo un lungo silenzio / After long silence

By booksofart / William Butler Yeats / Dream, kiss, Sleeping

Louis-Jean Lagrenée, Psyche surprises the sleeping Cupid, 1769 Speech after long silence; it is right,all other lovers being estranged or dead,unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,the curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,that we descant and yet again descantupon the supreme theme of Art and Song:bodily decrepitude is wisdom; youngwe loved each other and were ignorant. Parole …

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William Butler Yeats – Gli uomini migliorano con gli anni / Men Improve with the Years

By booksofart / William Butler Yeats / beauty, Dream, Sleeping

Frederic Leighton, The golden hours, 1864 I am worn out with dreams;a weather-worn, marble tritonamong the streams;and all day long I lookupon this lady’s beautyas though I had found in a booka pictured beauty,pleased to have filled the eyesor the discerning ears,delighted to be but wise,for men improve with the years;and yet, and yet,is this …

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William Butler Yeats – Quando tu sarai vecchia / When You Are Old

By booksofart / William Butler Yeats / Dream, reading

William Mulready, A Fireside Read, 1825 When you are old and grey and full of sleep,And nodding by the fire, take down this book,And slowly read, and dream of the soft lookYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,And loved your beauty with love false or true,But …

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Charles Bukowski – Buona notte, dolce principe / Good night, sweet prince

By booksofart / Charles Bukowski / Dream, melancholy, music

Gustav Klimt, Freya’s Tears – Golden tears, c.1900 Music of the wormshandles me like a hot flyas escalators turn into spoonsgrandma moses would have wanted itthus –early to rise with tear – stained eyeslet me take you away from all of this: there is a place behind the hills, where trees are shaped likeguillotines,and mandolins …

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William Shakespeare – Measure for measure

By booksofart / W. Shakespeare / Dream, life, Sleeping

Balthus, The room, 1954 Thou hast nor youth nor age,but as it were an after-dinner sleepdreaming of both. Non sei né giovane né vecchio,ma é come se dormissi dopo pranzo,sognando di entrambe queste età. Go back to album – W. Shakespeare

William Shakespeare – Sonnet 27

By booksofart / W. Shakespeare / Cupid&Psyche, Dream, Love poems, Night, Sleeping

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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William Butler Yeats – Dopo un lungo silenzio / After long silence

William Butler Yeats – Gli uomini migliorano con gli anni / Men Improve with the Years

William Butler Yeats – Quando tu sarai vecchia / When You Are Old

Charles Bukowski – Buona notte, dolce principe / Good night, sweet prince

William Shakespeare – Measure for measure

William Shakespeare – Sonnet 27

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