Adam Elsheimer, The Flight into Egypt, 1609 If but some vengeful god would call to mefrom up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing,know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,that thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!”Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;half-eased in that a powerfuller …
Jacob Hoefnagel, Orpheus charming the animals, 1613 My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky:so was it when my life began;so is it now I am a man;so be it when I shall grow old,or let me die!The Child is father of the Man;and I could wish my days to bebound each …
Georges Braque, Birds, 1962 Now’s the time for mirth and play,Saturday’s an holyday;praise to heav’n unceasing yield,I’ve found a lark’s nest in the field.A lark’s nest, then your play-mate begsyou’d spare herself and speckled eggs;soon she shall ascend and singyour praises to th’eternal King. Ora è tempo di gioia e d’allegrezzaperché il sabato è festa.Rendete …
Alfred Sisley, Rest along the Stream. Edge of the Wood, 1878 Dream of faint shore: sky risen from love came through, love of the greatest loneliness closed in a dim quiet light. Silence dreads blowing leaves, persuaded in breeze in the already mushy slope of the deep. Now the world lies into oblivion, in chance …
Arnold Böcklin, Villa by the Sea, 1878 Do you remember, my very first beloved, the pattern of the fireflies over the sea of Nervi? (dreamy land where I was yesterday, which the heart no longer recognizes). Perhaps. But I don’t remember the gesture carving inside you; and sweet words you don’t know you said are …
Gleb Aleksander Ilyin, Nocturne, 1941 You are so beautiful tonight so incredibly happy that I should dare now, I should immediately slip down your large and white shirt through which I glimpse your breast and make love with you here, in the garden, make love with you till early morning. But after kissing we start …
Giuseppe Conte – Sei così bella questa sera / You are so beautiful tonight Read More »
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