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Claude Monet

Water Garden at Giverny (Reproduction) If someone lived your life today, would they have any regrets tomorrow? Would you recommend the life you live to anyone else? Suppose the person you love most decided to live the way you plan to live today, thinking your thoughts, saying your words, and making your choices? Would theyContinue reading “Claude Monet”

William Butler Yeats ~ S. M. Hart

Virginia at Eighteen When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love falseContinue reading “William Butler Yeats ~ S. M. Hart”

Pierre-August Renoir

The Pont des Artes, Paris 1867-68 (Reproduction) I appreciate my shadow. It introduces me to people, It admires every view with me, It does Tai Chi with me in the morning and walks with me in the afternoon. If I ever take up golf, it will be my caddy. S. M. Hart

North Shore Trail, Point Lobos

Below the East, she has discovered it, Now she has discovered Dawn Boy, The child now he has come upon it, Where it was resting, he has come upon it, Now he talks to it, now it listens to him. Since it listens to him, it obeys him; Since it obeys him, it grants himContinue reading “North Shore Trail, Point Lobos”

Joseph Kleitsch

Laguna on a Cloudy Day 1930 (Reproduction) When you sail to Byzantium, You eventually reach the shore Where your memories outnumber your visions; Where you no longer ask “Is it worth it?” But “Was it worth it?”

Bluefish Cove, Point Lobos

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. Dylan Thomas ~ Fern Hill

T. S. Eliot ~ S. M. Hart

Whaler’s Cove, Point Lobos 2021 I grow old…I grow old… I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing each to each. I do notContinue reading “T. S. Eliot ~ S. M. Hart”

Christina Rossetti ~ S. M. Hart

Headland Cove, Point Lobos. 2021 For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands. Goblin Market 1862

William Butler Yeats ~ S. M. Hart

The Gnarly Tree. 2022 Come away, O human child! To the water and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. The Stolen Child 1886, 1889

William Blake ~ Claude Monet

Water Garden at Giverney 1904 (Reproduction) The Lilly of the valley breathing in the humble grass Answer’d the lovely maid and said: “I am a watry weed, So weak, the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head; Yet I am visited from heaven, and he that smiles on all Walks in the valley and eachContinue reading “William Blake ~ Claude Monet”