Jean Frederic Bazille, The Terrace at Meric, Oleander, 1867 Herbert broke our engagement of eight years When Annabelle returned to the village From the Seminary, ah me! If I had let my love for him alone It might have grown into a beautiful sorrow– Who knows?–filling my life with healing fragrance. But I tortured it, …
Edward Burne-Jones, The Tree of Forgiveness, 1882 Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;she passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;but I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.In a field by the river my love and I did stand,and on …
William Butler Yeats – Nel giardino dei salici / Down by the salley gardens Read More »
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Biblis, 1884 I haven’t told my garden yet – Lest that should conquer me. I haven’t quite the strength now To break it to the Bee – I will not name it in the street For shops would stare at me – That one so shy—so ignorant Should have the face to die. …
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 …
Claude Monet, The Artist’s Garden in Argenteuil, 1873 It is an honorable thought, and makes one lift one’s hat, as one encountered gentlefolk upon a daily street,that we’ve immortal place, though pyramids decay, and kingdoms, like the orchard, flit russetly away. E’ un pensiero onorevole, e ci fa togliere il cappello, come incontrare buona gente …
Anna Lea Merritt, Eve, 1885 There is another sky, ever serene and fair, and there is another sunshine, though it be darkness there; never mind faded forests, Austin, never mind silent fields – here is a little forest, whose leaf is ever green; here is a brighter garden, where not a frost has been; in …
Emily Dickinson – C’è un altro cielo / There is another sky Read More »
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