A practical guide to the Library of Congress paintings : with 92 key pictures and other illustrations and the library quotations (1903)
Washington : Foster & Reynolds · leaf 17
Hall of the Poets. 63 Upon a slope above the village school; This boy was taken from his mates, and died And, through that churchyard when my In childhood, ere he was full twelve years way has led old. On summer evenings, I believe, that there Pre-eminent in beauty is the vale A long half-hour… … Comus. Adonis. Milton— Comus. Comus, the enchanter, in the wood at night, listens to the song of The Lady, and at its conclusion exclaims: Can any mortal mixture of earth’s mould Breathe such divine, enchanting ravishment? Shakespeare— Adonis. Adonis, the young hunter loved by Venus, unmindful of…
Library of Congress · Mural painting and decoration, American · Symbolism in art
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