Two Trees in Winter's Silence
by Esther Newman-Cohen
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14.000 x 18.700 x 0.001 inches
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Title
Two Trees in Winter's Silence
Artist
Esther Newman-Cohen
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Paper
Description
This painting recalls the poem by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) as sung by Loreena McKennitt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chU3ZZ67-VI
THE TWO TREES
BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
The changing colours of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with merry light;
The surety of its hidden root
Has planted quiet in the night;
The shaking of its leafy head
Has given the waves their melody,
And made my lips and music wed,
Murmuring a wizard song for thee.
There the Loves a circle go,
The flaming circle of our days,
Gyring, spiring to and fro
In those great ignorant leafy ways;
Remembering all that shaken hair
And how the wingèd sandals dart,
Thine eyes grow full of tender care:
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass
The demons, with their subtle guile,
Lift up before us when they pass,
Or only gaze a little while;
For there a fatal image grows
That the stormy night receives,
Roots half hidden under snows,
Broken boughs and blackened leaves.
For all things turn to barrenness
In the dim glass the demons hold,
The glass of outer weariness,
Made when God slept in times of old.
There, through the broken branches, go
The ravens of unresting thought;
Flying, crying, to and fro,
Cruel claw and hungry throat,
Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
And shake their ragged wings; alas!
Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
Gaze no more in the bitter glass.
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Esther Newman-Cohen
Thanks so much, Genevieve, for featuring this work in the Lyrical Trees - Vibrant Wavelength of Color Group!
Genevieve Esson
Congratulations on your feature in the group: Lyrical Trees - Vibrant Wavelength Of Color! v/f
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