Showing posts with label Autumn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Autumn. Show all posts

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Beauty, John Donne


No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

- John Donne (1572-1631)

Friday, September 20, 2013

Autumn, Percy Bysshe Shelley


There is a harmony. In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)


DescriptionPercy Bysshe Shelley, by Alfred Clint (died 1883). See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
DateOriginal in 1819
SourceNational Portrait Gallery, London: NPG 1271
AuthorBy Alfred Clint (died 1883), after Amelia Curran (died 1847), and Edward Ellerker Williams (died 1822); cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:07, 16 September 2012 (UTC)


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