John William Godward, Nude on the beach, 1922 The sun, on the sand, O sleeping wrestler, warms a languid bath in the gold of your hair, melting the incense on your hostile features, mixing an amorous liquid with the tears. The immutable calm of this white burning, o my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly, …
Fitz Henry Lane, Lumber schooners at evening on Penobscot Bay,1863 To the sole task of voyaging beyond an India dark and splendid – Goes time’s messenger, this greeting, cape that your stern has doubled as on some low yard plunging along with the vessel riding skimmed in constant frolicking a bird bringing fresh tidings that …
Arnold Böcklin, Odysseus and Polyphemus, 1896 Never will I touch your sacred shore again where my young form reclined at rest, Zakynthos, regarding yourself in waves of the Greek sea, where Venus was virgin born, and made those islands bloom with her first smile; nor did he bypass your lacy clouds and leafy fronds in …
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes,Young Girls by the Seaside, 1879 Mindless, I kissed you,but didn’t say: “Oh, my cherry lips!”You were so romantic!You drank vinegar unbeknownst to your grandma.You became like ajasmine in spring.And I loved another.Such a pity! Don’t you see?Another who was writinga name on the sand. (Transl. by D. Foglia) E io ti …
Federico Garcia Lorca – Io ti davo baci / I kissed you Read More »
Rene Magritte, The collective invention, 1934 Future rose and temperate vein Amethyst of yesterday and breeze of now, I want to forget them! Man and fish in their elements, under floating things, Awaiting their night in the seaweed or in the chair, I want to forget them! I. Myself alone! Tinkering at a salver which …
William Stott of Oldham, The Birth of Venus, 1887 That which travelsclouds itself.The running watercan see no stars.That which travelsforgets itself.And that which halts itselfdreams. Colui che camminasi confonde.L’acqua correntenon vede le stelle.Colui che camminasi dimentica.E chi si fermasogna. Go back to album – F. G. Lorca
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