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Although this could very well be a picture of me finding a new treasure at a favorite nursery, it's actually an illustration by David Catrow for a children's book called Plantzilla.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Wednesday Vignette - Silent Noon

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Silent Noon
      -Dante Gabriel Rossetti


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-search growths the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky:-
    so this wing'd 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.



Isn't summer grand? 

14 comments:

  1. RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Silent Noon JOHN SHIRLEY QUIRK & MARTIN ISEPP (1976)
    One of my favorite !

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  2. This reminds me of that famous piece of Art Nouveau dragonfly jewelry. Look at those wings!

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  3. Lots of dragonflies out there this summer! Well done!

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  4. A wonderful shot of a beautiful creature!

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  5. Great shot, Peter, and wonderful poem! I have tried to photograph dragon flies and butterflies for weeks now, and had zero success. Somehow, I've had better luck with bees.

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  6. Fabulous shot and drop dead romantic poetry. Wednesday vignette becomes Wednesday romance incarnate.

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  7. Summer does reveal some of natures prettiest jewels.

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  8. Yes, yes, yes! Summer is the best! (Even during the weirdest summer I can remember here in S. Wisconsin.) Hey, there are dragonflies, so all is good. :)

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