Silent Noon
Painting: 'La Donna Della Finestra'
Painted 1879
Currently at the Fogg Museum of Art,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
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A Superscription
Sudden Light
Nuptial Sleep
Lost on Both Sides
Body's Beauty
Even So
Willowood
The Blessed Damozel |
Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,
The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:
Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms
'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.
All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,
Are golden kingcup-fields with silver edge
Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge.
'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky:
So this wind hour is dropt to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
When twofold silence was the song of love.
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