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| Rupert Lee Polar Bears 1921 oil on canvas Burton Gallery, University of Leeds |
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| William Bruce Ellis Ranken Adam's Work ca. 1910 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| George Percy Jacomb-Hood Mother and Child ca. 1890 oil on canvas Victoria Art Gallery, Bath |
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| Henry Scott Tuke The Promise 1888 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Charles Fairfax Murray The Violin Player 1888 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Eve Tempted ca. 1877 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| John Pettie Silvius and Phoebe 1872 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery |
from The Hill
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter?
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
One passed in a fever,
One was burned in a mine,
One was killed in a brawl,
One died in a jail,
One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife –
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith,
The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one? –
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
One died in shameful child-birth,
One of thwarted love,
One at the hands of a brute in a brothel,
One of a broken pride, in the search for heart's desire,
One after life in far-away London and Paris
Was brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag –
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily,
And old Towny Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton,
And Major Walker who had talked
With venerable men of the revolution? –
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
– Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology (1915)
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| William Dyce Christ and the Woman of Samaria ca. 1850-60 oil on panel Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Frederick Richard Pickersgill The Mountain Spring 1850 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |
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| John Martin Diogenes throwing away his Cup 1833 watercolor Morgan Library, New York |
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| Anonymous French Artist Two Ladies in a Garden ca. 1800-1815 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Cornelis van Poelenburgh St Joseph with the Christ Child ca. 1630-35 oil on copper National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey |
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| Annibale Carracci Christ and the Woman of Samaria ca. 1604-1605 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Girolamo da Santa Croce Noli me tangere ca. 1525 oil on panel Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Anonymous Flemish Artist St Jerome in the Wilderness ca. 1500-1550 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |