American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . The Guests Arriving. Drawn by Garrett. A casement high and triple-arched there was,All garlanded with carven imageriesOf fruits and flowers and bunches of knot diamonded with panes of quaint device,Innumerable of stains and splendid dyesAs are the tiger-moths deep-damasked wings;And in the midst, mong thousand heraldries,And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings,A shielded scutcheon blushed with blood of queens and kings AMERICAN ART Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,And threw warm gules on Madelines
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . The Guests Arriving. Drawn by Garrett. A casement high and triple-arched there was,All garlanded with carven imageriesOf fruits and flowers and bunches of knot diamonded with panes of quaint device,Innumerable of stains and splendid dyesAs are the tiger-moths deep-damasked wings;And in the midst, mong thousand heraldries,And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings,A shielded scutcheon blushed with blood of queens and kings AMERICAN ART Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,And threw warm gules on Madelines fair breast; Rosebloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seemd a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for Heaven. — Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. 259. Weaving St. Agnes Wool. Drawn by Garrett. Garrett has executed many designs for Tennysons poems, his most important work being,perhaps, the drawings made for Enoch Arden. Few of the younger generation have seen,and probably most of the older ones have forgotten, an illustrated edition of this masterpieceof pathos, which was brought out by the good old house of Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, inBoston, about twenty-five years ago. In those days the various processes which are nowso largely used in reproducing the artists work were almost unknown, the brave bindingsand giant pages now seen were still mostly things of the future, and a copy of this modestlydressed little edition of Enoch Arden would to-day surely be overlooked amid the myriadhandsome volumes on the booksellers counters. But for all that it contained some superb 260 AMERICAN ART
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