By Castle and River: "In the Peristyle"

The Brook

By: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally,
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorps, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.

With many a curve my banks I fret
by many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.

I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I wind about, and in and out,
with here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silver water-break
Above the golden gravel,

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

"In the Peristyle"

"In the Peristyle" John William Waterhouse

5 comments:

Julie said...: And if you think that you have noticed a trend, you have.; November 16, 2010 at 6:43 AM
Anonymous said...: And the reason for that would be...?

~ A.K. ~; November 16, 2010 at 4:22 PM
Julie said...: This is the third painting of a child that I have posted. :); November 16, 2010 at 5:18 PM
Anonymous said...: I noticed that. I meant, why the theme?

~ A.K. ~; November 17, 2010 at 6:42 AM
Julie said...: Oh, I dunno. I said something about being thankful for lovely children, and then I sorta took it as a challenge to see if I could find enough paintings of sweet kids and do one every day this week. Odd, I know...

:); November 17, 2010 at 6:51 AM

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

"In the Peristyle"

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