In honour of Robert Burns, celebrated, national poet of Scotland and lyricist. Born on this day in 1759, Alloway, Ayrshire. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) * The Red Hammock * The green sofa * A Windy Day * A Rally
Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
Christina Rossetti, "Echo" "Come to me in the silence of the night ; Come in the speaking silence of a dream ;"
🎨William Blake "Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing" c.1786
🎨Winslow Homer "The Bridle Path, White Mountains" (1868) "Summer Night" (1890)
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be." {- "Dracula"} - Bram Stoker, novelist, short story writer and author of Dracula. Born on this day, 8 November 1847, Clontarf, Dublin.
"To a Friend who sent me some Roses" ~- John Keats
"Celui qui regarde du dehors à travers une fenêtre ouverte, ne voit jamais autant de choses que celui qui regarde une fenêtre fermée.".... ~ Charles Baudelaire "Les fenêtres"~ {Le Spleen de Paris}
🎨José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior Reading, 1892
