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The Blessed Damozel - painting and poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, created 1875-8

Poem text below:

The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.

Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem, No wrought flowers did adorn, But a white rose of Mary's gift, For service meetly worn; 10 Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.

Herseemed she scarce had been a day One of God's choristers; The wonder was not yet quite gone From that still look of hers; Albeit, to them she left, her day Had counted as ten years.

(To one, it is ten years of years. . . . Yet now, and in this place, 20 Surely she leaned o'er me—her hair Fell all about my face. . . . Nothing: the autumn fall of leaves. The whole year sets apace.)

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space eyes

courtesy of the NASA Image and Video Library

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Poplars (1891) Claude Monet (x) The Poplar Richard Aldington (x)

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“Dried Flowers” - Daniel Moysaenko (x) “Memory” - Rene Magritte (x) “Memory As a Hearing Aid” - Tony Hoagland (x) “Memory Buys the Time” - David Cambria (x) “America is Just a Negro in an Anthill” -  Morgan Varnado (x) “Memory of the Garden at Etten” - Vincent Van Gogh (x) “far memory” - Lucille Clifton (x)

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"sorrows" - Lucille Clifton (x)

"Eve's Sorrow" - Federico Castellon (x)

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i thank You God by e. e. cummings

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The Road from Earth to Heaven, W. J. Dittmar, 1932 (x)

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Striped Cats - Louis Wain, 1860-1939