Titania Sleeping (1841) by Richard Dadd (England, 1817-1886). A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd,
Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd.
Henry IV part 2
Act IV Scene 1
Art: Andrey Shiskin.

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O excellent! I love long life better than figs.
Anthony and Cleopatra A1S2

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How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day.
Sonnet 43
Art: Edouard Bisson

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"All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."

Sonnet 43

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The dream's here still: even when I wake, it is without me, as within me; not imagined, felt.
- Cymbeline A4S2

🎨The Nightmare Henry Fuseli

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"Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head ...."


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When I waked, I cried to dream again.

The Tempest

Pic: The Four Arts (Dance, Music, Painting & Poetry), Mucha.

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“Oh, swear not by the the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.” Romeo & Juliet, Act 2, Sc 2 Jasmine is a flower of the moon. Illust: c.1940 by Cicely Mary Barker

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The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp.
RJ 2 2

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This weekend's theme is: ASTRONOMY!

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Making it momentary as a sound,
Swift as a shadow,
short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night;

A Midsummers Night's Dream
Or
The Love Life of Spurt Hammond

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The fairy land buys not the child of me.
His mother was a votaress of my order:
And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,
Full often hath she gossip'd by my side.
MND Act II Scene 1
Img: Titania & the Indian Boy
Joseph Noel Paton.

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"The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream ...."


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'The armour that I saw in your tent to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?
Stars my lord.
Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.'
HV

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I have bedimm’d
The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds,
And ‘twixt the green sea and the azured vault
Set roaring war—The Tempest

Rough Sea at Etretat by Claude Monet via

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True and not true.

— Troilus and Cressida

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Reynolds Stone design for Hamlet film 1949

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