Claude Monet

Soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise)

My River Runs to Thee

My river runs to thee:

Blue sea, wilt welcome me?

My river waits reply.

Oh sea, look graciously!

I’ll fetch thee brooks

From spotted nooks,—

Say, sea,

Take me!

~ Emily Dickinson ~

Yesterday is History

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

Inverted Reflection in Water

Yesterday is History

Yesterday is History,

‘Tis so far away

Yesterday is Poetry

‘Tis Philosophy

Yesterday is mystery

Where it is Today

While we shrewdly speculate

Flutter both away

~Emily Dickinson ~

How the Waters Closed Above Him

Christian Skredsvig

Boy With the Willow Flute

How the Waters Closed Above Him

How the Waters closed above Him
We shall never know --
How He stretched His Anguish to us
That -- is covered too --

Spreads the Pond Her Base of Lilies
Bold above the Boy
Whose unclaimed Hat and Jacket
Sum the History –

~ Emily Dickinson ~

I've nothing else -- to bring, You know

Edvard Munch

Ashes

I've nothing else -- to bring, You know

I've nothing else -- to bring, You know --

So I keep bringing These --

Just as the Night keeps fetching Stars

To our familiar eyes --

Maybe, we shouldn't mind them --

Unless they didn't come --

Then -- maybe, it would puzzle us

To find our way Home –

~ Emily Dickinson ~

Come Slowly

Edvard Munch

Amor and Psyche

Come Slowly

Come slowly, Eden

Lips unused to thee.

Bashful, sip thy jasmines,

As the fainting bee,

Reaching late his flower,

Round her chamber hums,

Counts his nectars - alights,

And is lost in balms!

~ Emily Dickinson ~

Heart, We Will Forget Him!

Edward Hopper

Morning Sun

Heart, We Will Forget Him!

Heart, we will forget him!

You and I, tonight!

You may forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light.

When you have done, pray tell me

That I my thoughts may dim;

Haste! lest while you're lagging.

I may remember him!

~ Emily Dickinson ~

I’m Nobody! Who Are You?

Ria Hills

Orange Chairs

I’m Nobody! Who Are You?

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!

~ Emily Dickinson ~

There is another sky

James Jacques Joseph Tissot

The Bunch of Lilacs

There is another sky

There is another sky,

Ever serene and fair,

And there is another sunshine,

Though it be darkness there;

Never mind faded forests, Austin,

Never mind silent fields -

Here is a little forest,

Whose leaf is ever green;

Here is a brighter garden,

Where not a frost has been;

In its unfading flowers

I hear the bright bee hum:

Prithee, my brother,

Into my garden come!

~ Emily Dickinson ~

from a letter to her brother, Austin