The Chapel of the Hermits (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"I do believe, and yet, in grief,I pray for help to unbelief;For needful strength aside to layThe daily cumberings of ...
"I do believe, and yet, in grief,I pray for help to unbelief;For needful strength aside to layThe daily cumberings of ...
A hall it was, where myriad lamps a richer daylight made,And folds of falling purple gave harmony to shade;And odours, ...
Down the green slope he bounded. Raven curls From his white shoulders by the winds were swept, And the clear color of ...
SWIFT cloud, swift light, now dark, now bright, across the landscape played;And, spotted as a leopard's side in chasing sun ...
Ha! My dear! I'm back again-- Vendor of Bohemia's wares! Lordy! How it pants a man Climbing up those awful stairs! Well, I've made ...
Out here in the exact middle of the day,This strange, gawky house has the expressionOf someone being stared at, someone ...
Upon the painter's easel standsThe latest picture from his hands.The canvas shows a sunset glowReflected in the lake below,While mountains ...
The rain and the wind and the murkReign over cold desert of fall,Here, life's interrupted till spring;Till the spring, gardens ...
Low hidden in among the forest trees An artist's tilted easel, ankle-deep In tousled ferns and mosses, and in these A fluffy water-spaniel, ...
IThe day is o'er and twilight's shade,Is darkening forest, glen and glade;It steals within the old church door,And casts its ...
This fact is clear….Both man and womanPrize not what's good, but what's uncommon ;And most delighted still they are,Not with ...
One day in the bluest of summer weather,Sketching under a whispering oak, I heard five bobolinks laughing togetherOver some ornithological ...
Sunshine and shadow and laughter and tears,These are forever the paints of the years,Splashed on the canvas of life day ...
If you ask him he will talk for hours-- how at fourteen he hammered signs, fingers raw with cold, and ...
I could have been an architect easel and pad, compass and straight edge vision and design at least that's what ...
Your soul was lifted by the wings today Hearing the master of the violin: You praised him, praised the great ...
Artists wrestled here! Lo, a tint Cashmere! Lo, a Rose! Student of the Year! For the easel here Say Repose! ...
In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates: Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming in brushstrokes, Van Gogh ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
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