Mermaids
Collection of artworks about Mermaids
mythology
T. S. Eliot – Death by water
Pieter Bruegel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c.1558 Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss. A current under sea Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the …
T. S. Eliot – from The Hollow Men
Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son, 1823 The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms In this last of meeting places We grope together …
Bertolt Brecht – Non ti ho mai amata tanto, ma soeur / I have never loved you so much
Gustave Moreau, Pasipahe and the bull, 1880 ca I have never loved you so much, ma soeur As when I left you in that evening’s red. The forest swallowed me, the blue forest, ma soeur Over which the pale stars in the west always stood. I laughed not a little, not at all, ma soeur …
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Emily Dickinson – Credo che Vivere / I think To Live
Luca Longhi, The Lady and the Unicorn – portrait of Giulia Farnese, c.1550 I think To Live – may be a Bliss To those who dare to try – Beyond my limit – to conceive – My lip – to testify – I think the Heart I former wore Could widen – till to me …
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William Shakespeare – Hamlet
Alexandre Séon, The Despair of the Sphinx, 1890 It’s a beautiful prison, the world. E’ una bella prigione, il mondo. Go back to album – W. Shakespeare