Jean Delville, Cemetery at Night, 1890 A window here again Where they don’t sleep again. Maybe they thus sit, Maybe they drink wine. Or they would not part Simply the two hands. There is such a window In each house, friend. Window in the night – Partings’, meetings’ scream! Maybe – hundred candles, Maybe – …
John Atkinson Grimshaw, Moonlight on the Lake Roundhay, Park Leeds, 1872 Somewhere dreams will be true. There is a lonely lake Moonlit for me and you And like none for our sake. There the dark white sail spread To a vague wind unfelt Shall make our sleep‑life led Towards where the waters melt Into the …
Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1599 Seven hours of night, seven years of waking: playing with axes, you lie in the shadow of propped-up corpses –o trees that you do not fell!,– at your head the pageantry of the unspoken, at your feet the beggary of words, you lie there, playing with the axes– and at …
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Charles Francois Daubigny, Moonrise, 1861 Give me your hand, still your breath, let’s rest Under this great tree where the breeze dies Beneath grey branches, in broken sighs, The soft, tender rays of the moon caress. Motionless, and lowering our eyes, Not thinking, dreaming. Let love that tires Have its moment, and happiness that expires, …
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket, 1875 My friends finally admitted their contempt Out of brimming glasses I drank down the stars And while I slept an angel massacred The lambs and shepherds of a woeful folds Some false centurions brought vinegar The wounded wretches danced as the …
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Stanisław Witkiewicz, Ukrainian night, 1895 And I look in the starry sky where are the twin stars – my destiny that is bound to yours. But where are our stars? O heaven, o enchanted wheat field! E io cerco nel cielo stellato dove sono le stelle gemelle – mio destino che al tuo è legato. …
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