I shall only tell you that till you bade us Adieu, I hardly knew the value you had taught my heart to set upon you
Line after line my gushing eyes o'erflow,
Led through a sad variety of woe:
Now warm in love, now with'ring in thy bloom,
Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
There stern religion quench'd th' unwilling flame,
There died the best of passions, love and fame.
Light Years by The National // Euridice recedes into the Underworld (detail) by Enrico Scuri // The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien // Alexander Hamilton to John Laurens, April 1779 // Thisbe (detail) by John William Waterhouse // Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope // Welly Boots by The Amazing Devil
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Love and distance
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Edward Poynter, Jean Valentine | Orpheus and Eurydice
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Complications
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So, I saw the movie finally. I still have questions.
None the less, it was radiant.
I don’t know what these are, I just had to make ‘em— and I’m making more, I don’t know, I’ve been watching this nonsense for almost 20 years, damn it, I just dig in.
Part 2 (x)
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Thomas Crawford (1814-1857)
"Orpheus and Cerberus" (1843)
Marble
Located in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The sculpture is based off the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which Orpheus lulls to sleep the three-headed hell hound Cerberus to sleep by playing the lyre, after-which he rushes past the beast through the gates of Hades in search of his wife Eurydice.
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amigo the devil - hell and you // george frederick watts - orpheus and eurydice
id in alt text!
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