Espelhos II

Peter Paul Rubens, Woman with a Mirror (c. 1640, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel)

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"Since as you know, you cannot see yourself

So well as by reflection, I your glass

Will modestly discover to yourself

That of yourself which you yet know not of."

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Shakespeare.

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In M. Digby Wyatt, W. R. Tymms, The History, Theory, and Practice of Illuminating, London, Day and Son, 1861, p. 22 (2.ª parte)

Ainda do Verão

Primavera em Abril I

Fedinand Georg Waldmüller, The Birthday Table (1840, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Colónia - Link)

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«April hath put a spirit of youth in everything».

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William Shakespeare.

O Verão está quase a chegar...

Pintura de Henri Martin, Étude pour l'Eté.

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Se te comparo a um dia de verão
És por certo mais belo e mais ameno
O vento espalha as folhas pelo chão
E o tempo do verão é bem pequeno.

Ás vezes brilha o Sol em demasia
Outras vezes desmaia com frieza;
O que é belo declina num só dia,
Na terna mutação da natureza.

Mas em ti o verão será eterno,
E a beleza que tens não perderás;
Nem chegarás da morte ao triste inverno:

Nestas linhas com o tempo crescerás.
E enquanto nesta terra houver um ser,
Meus versos vivos te farão viver.
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Soneto XVIII de William Shakespeare,
citado in Pensador.Info.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: 

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Shakespeare Sonnets.
 

Narcisos

Pintura de Carl Thomsen, Arranging daffodils (1894).

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«Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty».

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William Shakespeare.