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 …
Francesco Guardi, Il Ridotto (The Foyer), 1755 Our story’s noble as its tragic like the grimace of a tyrant no drama’s chance or magic no detail that’s indifferent makes our great love pathetic And Thomas de Quincey drinking Opiate poison sweet and chaste Of his poor Anne went dreaming We pass we pass since all …
George Frederic Watts, Hope, 1886 Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips awayAnd loversMust I be remindedJoy came always after pain The night is a clock chimingThe days go by not I We’re face to face and hand in handWhile under the bridgesOf embrace expireEternal tired tidal eyes The night is a clock chimingThe days go …
Sandro Botticelli, Spring, 1478 Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory – odours, when sweet violets sicken, live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, are heap’d for the beloved’s bed; and so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, love itself shall slumber on. La musica, quando le …
Edward Robert Hughes, Night with her train of stars, 1912 At the creation of the Earth pleasure, that divinest birth, from the soil of Heaven did rise, wrapped in sweet wild melodies – like an exhalation wreathing to the sound of air low-breathing through Aeolian pines, which make a shade and shelter to the lake …
Percy Bysshe Shelley –The Birth Place Of Pleasure Read More »
Gustave Moreau, Hesiod and the Muse, 1891 The music of indifference heart time air fire sand of silence the landslip of loves cover their voices and let me no longer hear myself be silent. Musica dell’indifferenza cuore tempo aria fuoco sabbia del silenzio frana d’errori copri le loro voci ch’io non mi senta più tacere. …
Samuel Beckett – Musica dell’indifferenza / The music of indifference Read More »
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