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| Etruscan Culture Earrings 450 BC gold Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Etruscan Culture Earrings 5th-4th century BC gold Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Balinese Culture Ceremonial Overwrap ca. 1900-1930 gold-stenciled silk National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Jacopo del Casentino St Lucy ca. 1330 tempera and gold on panel El Paso Museum of Art, Texas |
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| Jacopo del Casentino St John the Baptist ca. 1330 tempera and gold on panel El Paso Museum of Art, Texas |
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| Colombian Colonial Culture Cruciform Finial ca. 1600 emeralds and pearls set in gold Denver Art Museum |
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| Spanish Culture Pendant 17th century gold openwork set with diamonds Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto |
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| Lamborn & Wagner (Melbourne) Grape-Vine Brooch ca. 1880 gold and chrysoberyls National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Giovanni del Biondo Hebrew Prophet ca. 1370 tempera and gold on panel (altarpiece fragment) Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico |
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| Giovanni del Biondo Hebrew Prophet ca. 1370 tempera and gold on panel (altarpiece fragment) Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Lion-Head Earring 3rd century BC gold set with garnets Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Bracelet 4th century BC silver with gold lion-head finials Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Nike with Trophy on Signet Ring 4th-3rd century BC gold North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Lorenzo Monaco Virgin and Child with Angels ca. 1420 tempera and gold on panel Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Photographer (USA) Three California Gold Miners ca. 1850 daguerreotype National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Carleton Watkins Three Large Gold Nuggets ca. 1865-70 albumen print Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California |
Too Dear, Too Vague
Love by ambition
Of definition
Suffers partition
And cannot go
From yes to no,
Of definition
Suffers partition
And cannot go
From yes to no,
For no is not love; no is no,
The shutting of a door,
The tightening jaw,
A wilful sorrow;
A wilful sorrow;
And saying yes
Turns love into success,
Views from the rail
Of land and happiness;
Assured of all,
The sofas creak,
And were this all, love were
But cheek to cheek
But cheek to cheek
And dear to dear.
Voices explain
Love's pleasure and love's pain,
Still tap the knee
And cannot disagree,
Hushed for aggression
Of full confession,
Likeness to likeness
Of each old weakness;
Love is not there,
Love has moved to another chair,
Of each old weakness;
Love is not there,
Love has moved to another chair,
Aware already
Of what stands next,
And is not vexed,
And is not vexed,
And is not giddy,
Leaves the North in place
With a good grace,
With a good grace,
And would not gather
Another to another,
Designs his own unhappiness
Foretells his own death and is faithless.
Foretells his own death and is faithless.
– W.H. Auden (1929)