To You

Jill Rupinski

To You

Let us twain walk aside from the rest;

Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony,

Come!
Vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—

Tell me the whole story,

Tell me what you would not tell

your brother, wife, husband, or physician.

~ Walt Whitman ~

Animals

Franz Marc

The Fate of the Animals

Animals

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd;

I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition;

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;

Not one is dissatisfied—not one is demented with the mania of owning things;

Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago;

Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.

~ Walt Whitman ~

When I heard the learn’d astronomer

Jan Vermeer

The Astronomer

When I heard the learn’d astronomer

When I heard the learn'd astronomer;

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;

When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;

When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much

applause in the lecture-room,

How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;

Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

Look'd up at the stars---in perfect silence

~ Walt Whitman ~