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William Butler Yeats – Verso Bisanzio / Sailing to Byzantium

By booksofart / William Butler Yeats / Idyll, soul, travel, youth

Lucas Cranach, The fountain of Youth, 1546 That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees,- Those dying generations – at their song,The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.Caught in that sensual music all neglectMonuments of unageing intellect.An …

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Emily Dickinson – Quella vita che fu tenuta a freno / The Life that tied too tight escapes

By booksofart / Emily Dickinson / animal, travel

Han Wu Shen, Girl with a horse, c.2010 The Life that tied too tight escapes Will ever after run With a prudential look behind And spectres of the Rein— The Horse that scents the living Grass And sees the Pastures smile Will be retaken with a shot If he is caught at all— Quella vita …

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Emily Bronte – Sympathy

By booksofart / Emily Bronte / despair, hope, melancholy, sea, travel

Giovanni di Paolo, St. Clare rescuing the shipwrecked, 1450 ca There should be no despair for you While nightly stars are burning; While evening pours its silent dew, And sunshine gilds the morning. There should be no despair–though tears May flow down like a river: Are not the best beloved of years Around your heart …

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Emily Dickinson – Il gelo della morte era sul vetro / The Frost of Death was on the Pane

By booksofart / Emily Dickinson / boat, death, flower, sea, travel

Ford Madox Brown, The last of England, 1855 The Frost of Death was on the Pane – “Secure your Flower” said he. Like Sailors fighting with a Leak We fought Mortality. Our passive Flower we held to Sea – To Mountain – To the Sun – Yet even on his Scarlet shelf To crawl the …

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William Shakespeare – The Life and Death of Julius Caesar

By booksofart / W. Shakespeare / boat, life, sea, travel

Vladimir Kush, Arrival of the Flower Ship, 2000 There is a tide in the affairs of men,which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;omitted, all the voyage of their lifeis bound in shallows and in miseries.On such a full sea are we now afloat; and we must take the current when it serves,or lose our …

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Emily Bronte – I’m happiest when most away

By booksofart / Emily Bronte / Night, soul, travel

Cipriano Mannucci, Towards the Light, 1910 I’m happiest when most away I can bear my soul from it’s home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And my eye can wander through worlds of light When I am not and none beside Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky But only …

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William Butler Yeats – Verso Bisanzio / Sailing to Byzantium

Emily Dickinson – Quella vita che fu tenuta a freno / The Life that tied too tight escapes

Emily Bronte – Sympathy

Emily Dickinson – Il gelo della morte era sul vetro / The Frost of Death was on the Pane

William Shakespeare – The Life and Death of Julius Caesar

Emily Bronte – I’m happiest when most away

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