By Castle and River: "Looking West Fron the Eyrie"

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.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

"Looking West Fron the Eyrie"

This painting, is inspired by one of J.R.R Tolkien's illustrations from The Hobbit, called "The Misty Mountains looking West from the Eyrie towards Goblin Gate." You can see it here. The pictures are hardly similar, as I wasn't trying to copy it. I just started the painting and noticed similarities, so I made it a bit more like Mr. Tolkien's picture.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: wow!!!you are so talented!!(:; May 22, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Julie said...: Why thank you!!! I just love painting and I guess that is why. :D; May 22, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Anonymous said...: hmmm....I love painting but I am NOT good at it!! (:; May 23, 2011 at 12:52 PM
Julie said...: Aw, I'm sorry. :/

Well, the way I see it, if you love it enough, you will get good at it. :); May 23, 2011 at 2:07 PM

Sunday, May 22, 2011

"Looking West Fron the Eyrie"

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