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| Paris Bordone The Virgin commending St Dominic to the Redeemer ca. 1557-58 oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Paris Bordone Mystic Marriage of St Catherine before 1571 oil on canvas Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa |
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| Paris Bordone Baptism of Christ ca. 1535-40 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Paris Bordone Altarpiece of St Lawrence 1562 oil on canvas Duomo di Treviso |
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| Paris Bordone Holy Family with St Jerome before 1571 oil on canvas private collection |
from Mother Mind
I never made a poem, dear friend –
I never sat me down, and said,
This cunning brain and patient hand
Shall fashion something to be read.
Men often came to me, and prayed
I should indite a fitting verse
For fast, or festival, or in
Some stately pageant to rehearse.
Reluctantly I bade them go,
Ungladdened by my poet-mite;
My heart is not so churlish but
It loves to minister delight.
But not a word I breathe is mine
To sing, in praise of man or God;
My Master calls, at noon or night,
I know his whisper and his nod.
Yet all my thoughts to rhythms run,
To rhyme, my wisdom and my wit.
True, I consume my life in verse,
But wouldst thou know how that is writ?
T'is thus – through weary length of days,
I bear a thought within my breast
That greatens from my growth of soul,
And waits, and will not be expressed.
It greatens, till its hour has come,
Not without pain, it sees the light;
'Twixt smiles and tears I view it o'er,
And dare not deem it perfect, quite.
– Julia Ward Howe (1854)
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| Paris Bordone Madonna and Child with St Anthony Abbot and Young Male Donor ca. 1520-25 oil on panel, transferred to canvas private collection |
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| Paris Bordone Christ as Light of the World ca. 1550 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Paris Bordone Baptism of Christ ca. 1548-51 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Paris Bordone Adoration of the Magi ca. 1550 oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums |
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| Paris Bordone Holy Family with St Ambrose presenting a Donor ca. 1524-26 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Paris Bordone Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist, Mary Magdalen and St George ca. 1524 oil on panel Glasgow Museums |
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| Paris Bordone Rest on the Return from Egypt ca. 1540 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Paris Bordone Madonna and Child Enthroned, with Saints ca. 1530 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Paris Bordone Madonna and Child with St Anthony Abbot, St Jerome and Donor ca. 1522 oil on panel Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |