'Come fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentence fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly – and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.'

~ Quatrain VII, Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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Alexander Pushkin's poem "I remember a wonderful moment".
Each of the six quatrains is supported by a picture.
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PART 1

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Alexander Pushkin's poem "I remember a wonderful moment".
Each of the six quatrains is supported by a picture.
✒️🎩🤖

PART 2

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Century VIII, Quatrain 20
The false message about the rigged election
to run through the city stopping the broken pact;
voices bought, chapel stained with blood,
the empire contracted to another

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'...And one by one crept silently to rest.'

Illustration for Quatrain 21, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Folio Society, 2009.

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🗓 1er octobre 1684 : mort de Pierre Corneille.
De qui parle-t-il dans ce quatrain ?
💬 Explications sur https://t.co/1edKdIr5BY

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Thinking about this older piece again and wondering again, 'how did I do this?' whilst everything I attempt at the moment turns to manure.

Illustration for Quatrain 32, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by Folio Society, 2009. Watercolour on Arches CP. Tap/click to full view.

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My fortune teller told me
I would be surrounded by love
I’ve given them my everything
But it never seemed enough

I got tired of being used
So I put arsenic in a cup
Ohh! Your drink is safe though
Or would you call my bluff

“Bluff”
Quatrain, circa 2022
Carnation

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This AI-generated film, Dreaming of the Floating Hometown, was inspired by a Chinese quatrain written by AI that reflects the wanderer's nostalgia for his hometown.
My submission to the

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🌺The Hanuman Chalisa🌺

The most powerful poems dedicated to Lord

Penned in "Awadhi" by Sant "Tulsidas", a 16-century poet,

The Chalisa is a compilation of forty poems or Chalis chaupayis meaning "forty quatrain" verses!

Jai Shree Ram🙏

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Quatrain 32. Still one of my favourites from the illustrations I did for the limited 150th anniversary edition of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by Folio Society, 2009. Watercolour.

The original is now in 's collection. Another point of honour for me.

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FLORENTINE IN FINE

OUPS ! 8 quatrains

Comme une femme après l'amour, Dieu qu'elle est belle
La Toscane au parfum de lys rouge et de rose :
Cathédrale exhalant à foison ses fidèles
Qu’un soleil des Enfers méchamment décompose !

https://t.co/ysXQWBQ5Yt

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Illustrations for Quatrains 9, 29, 32, and 48 were the originals exhibited.

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Original artwork available in 's 'Passage' auction. This one's a personal favourite.

Quatrain 74, 'Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane...'

Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by Folio Society, 2009 (out of print). Watercolour & gouache.

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Sous Henri II en 1558

OUPS ! 10 quatrains

Elle* a déjà levé sa robe et très haut même
En entraînant avec ses jupons dans l’effort,
Un rayon de soleil sur l’intime trésor
Te fait rêver Henri de l’oindre de saint-chrême.

*La future princesse de Clèves

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'...And one by one crept silently to rest.'

Illustration for Quatrain 21, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Folio Society, 2009.

I still quite like the hooded figure. The other; not so much (read: at all).

I'll be listing this in the auction next week, too.

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'And lately, by the Tavern Door agape,
Came stealing through the Dusk an angel shape...'

Illustration for Quatrain 42, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Folio Society, 09.

Not one of the better pieces from the set. I'm thinking of listing it in the auction next week.

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Tout ce qui brille, offre à l’âme

Son parfum ou sa couleur;

Si Dieu n’avait fait la femme,

Il n’aurait pas fait la fleur.

Victor Hugo/Quatrain du poème "Les femmes sont sur la terre" écrit le 7 avril 1855, extrait du recueil "Les Contemplations" (publié en 1856)

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