. Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers. s the first gold. And still she sits, young while the earth is old,And, subtly by herself contemplative,Draws men to watch the bright net she can weave, Till heart and body and life are in its hold. The rose and poppy are her flowers ; for whereIs he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scentAnd soft-shed kisses and soft-shed sleep shall snare ?Lo ! as that youths eyes burned at thine, so wentThy spell through him, and left his straight neck bentAnd round his heart one strangling golden hair. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. IT is well-known that the
. Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers. s the first gold. And still she sits, young while the earth is old,And, subtly by herself contemplative,Draws men to watch the bright net she can weave, Till heart and body and life are in its hold. The rose and poppy are her flowers ; for whereIs he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scentAnd soft-shed kisses and soft-shed sleep shall snare ?Lo ! as that youths eyes burned at thine, so wentThy spell through him, and left his straight neck bentAnd round his heart one strangling golden hair. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. IT is well-known that the painter of whom I now pro-pose to speak has never suffered exclusion or accept-ance at the hand of any academy. To such acceptance orsuch rejection all other men of any note have been andmay be liable. It is not less well known that his workmust always hold its place as second in significance andvalue to no work done by any painter of his time. Amongthe many great works of Mr. D. G. Rossetti, I know ofnone greater than his two latest. These are types of. LlLITH. Rossetti. LILITH 213 sensual beauty and spiritual, the siren and the sibyl. Theone is a woman of the type of Adams first wife; she is aliving Lilith with ample splendour of redundant hair; She excelsAll women in the magic of her locks ;And when she winds them round a young mans neckShe will not ever set him free again. Clothed in soft white garments, she draws out through acomb the heavy mass of hair like thick spun gold to fullestlength ; her head leans back half sleepily, superb and satiatewith its own beauty; the eyes are languid, without love inthem or hate; the sweet luxurious mouth has the patienceof pleasure fulfilled and complete, the warm repose ofpassion sure of its delight. Outside, as seen in the glim-mering mirror, there is full summer; the deep and glowingleaves have drunk in the whole strength of the sun. Thesleepy splendour of the picture is a fit raiment for the ideaincarnate of faultless- fleshly beau
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