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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Demon 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Faun 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Girl ca. 1650-1700 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Man 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Man 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Man 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Man 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Man 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Satyr 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Woman 17th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Woman, after the Antique 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Woman ca. 1600-1650 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Youth ca. 1650-1700 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of a Youth ca. 1550-1600 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of Sleeping Figure 16th century drawing Musée du Louvre |
The Clock in Literature
"Would you mind
If I headed up early?"
Says the husband
To his young wife.
"Follow when you like."
Later that evening
The beautiful face
And exquisite limbs
Will rises from the table
Of the Southern inn
Having been spied
By the antihero
Across the room
Reading an indifferent book.
Oh quick –
Let a storm kill the light!
But you might as well say it
To a wall.
We can't change
A single
Silver setting, or
Even by one day
Reduce
The bright full moon.
The clock in literature
Holds that moon.
"I know I can't say
A single thing to stop you,"
Says the old man at table
To the suddenly risen girl.
"But sleep on it, will you?"
Not now –
Not ever.
The clock in literature
Holds the ancient rune.
"I wonder if I might
Have a word with you,"
Says the antihero
To the lissome
Dark-eyed angel.
– Aram Saroyan (2015)