Love E-Book

Jp. A. Calosse

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Kategorie: Erotik
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 53

Beschreibung

Love

Leseprobe

Jp. A. Calosse

L O V E

© 2023, Confidential Concepts, Worldwide, USA

© 2023, Parkstone Press USA, New York

© Image-Barwww.image-bar.com

© 2011, Maurice Denis, Artists Rights Society, New York

© 2011, Tamara de Lempicka, Artists Rights Society, New York

© 2011, Pablo Picasso, Artists Rights Society, New York

All rights reserved. No part of this may be reproduced or adapted without the permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world.

Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

ISBN: 978-1-78160-978-1

Contents

Foreword

Come! an Unseen Flute

The Gentle Heart

She Walks in Beauty

Katharine

Believe me…

The Unseen Power

He touched me, so I live to know

Ode to Cassandra

Somewhere There Waiteth

Meeting at Night

To the Distant One

To Laura at the Harpsichord

A Red, Red Rose

Love

Sonnet 18

Some Day

To Marie Sonnet

Come live with me and be my Love

To a Stranger

Woman’s Constancy

Maiden with the lips of scarlet

To Celia

This Marriage

The First Day

My love has talk’d with rocks and trees

How do I love thee?

One Word Is Too Often Profaned

The Ragged Wood

To My Dear and Loving Husband

I Loved You

Dear Chains

To the moon

Bright Star

Hymn to Aphrodite

To His Coy Mistress

Come Slowly

She Comes Not

Eulalie

Who Ever Felt as I

Come Fill the Cup

A Hemisphere in a Head of Hair

Beyond a mortal man impassion’d far

Love Not Me

It’s all I have to bring to-day

List of Illustrations

“There is nothing more common than to speak about love; there is nothing more rare than to speak well about it.”

— Cardinal de Bernis (1715-1794)

From

The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, 1484-1485.

Tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Foreword

The representations of Love in Western art are unnumerable: loving emotion, agonies of the soul, melancholy … Love is an inexhaustible subject, handled in an original way according to the perception and lives of the artists and the writers of any time.

This work chooses to give a major place to the emotion, to praise the loving happiness. By representing the theme through a hundred and twenty pieces extending from the Middle Ages to the end of the Modern period, it proves the timelessness of love.

We invite you to admire the legendary sculptures such as the Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne, Antonio Canova’s Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss or Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss. Among other mythical paintings, you will find Antoine Watteau’s The Pilgrimage on the Island of Cythera, Jean Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing or still Marc Chagall’s The Lovers in Blue. Every major artist who has celebrated the feeling of love is gathered here under your eyes.

And what is more appropriate than poetry to illustrate this picturesque panorama? From Ovid to Verlaine, the biggest names of the literature knew how to make Eros speak.

In prose or in verse, their texts crossed the time by revealing one thousand and one faces of love. From Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to Beaudelaire’s A Hemisphere in a Head of Hair, passing by Goethe’s To the Distant One, this book invites you thus for a discovery or for a rediscovery of the most famous passages of the Western literature.

Adam and Eve, Tamara de Lempicka, 1931

Oil on panel, 116 x 73. Private collection.

Come! an Unseen Flute

Come! an unseen flute

Sighs in the orchards.

The most peaceful song

Is the song that shepherds sing.

The wind beneath the ilex

Ruffles the waters’ dark mirror.

The most joyous song

Is the song that birds sing.

Let no worry torment you.

Let us love! Let us always love!

The most sweet song

Is the song that lovers sing.

— Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -

I have shudder'd at it.

I shudder no more.

I could be martyr'd for my religion

Love is my religion

And I could die for that.

I could die for you.

— John Keats (1795-1821)

Adam and Eve, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), c. 1550.

Oil on canvas, 176 x 191 cm. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

Adam and Eve, Suzanne Valadon, 1909.

Oil on canvas, 162 x 131 cm. Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Adam and Eve, Albrecht Dürer, 1504

Engraving, 25.1 x 20 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Gentle Heart

Within the gentle heart Love shelters him,

As birds within the green shade of the grove.

Before the gentle heart, in Nature’s scheme,

Love was not, nor the gentle heart ere Love.

For with the sun, at once,

So sprang the light immediately; nor was

Its birth before the sun’s.

And Love hath his effect in gentleness

Of very self; even as

Within the middle fire the heat’s excess.

The fire of Love comes to the gentle heart

Like as its virtue to a precious stone;

To which no star its influence can impart

Till it is made a pure thing by the sun:

For when the sun hath smit

From out its essence that which there was vile,

The star endoweth it.

And so the heart created by God’s breath

Pure, true, and clean from guile,

A woman, like a star, enamoureth.

In gentle heart of Love for like reason is

For which the lamp’s high flame is fanned

But what is left to love, thus leaving thee?

Alas! that cruel land beyond the sea!

Why thus dividing many a faithful heart,

Never again to meet, when thus they part?

Adam and Eve, Gustav Klimt, 1917-1918

Oil on canvas, 173 x 60 cm. Österreichische Galerie, Vienna.

The Hand of God, Auguste Rodin, 1896

Marble, 94 x 82.5 x 54.9 cm. Musée Rodin, Paris.

Apollo and Daphne, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1622-1625

Marble, height: 243 cm. Galleria Borghese, Rome.

I see not, when thy presence bright I leave,

How wealth, or joy, or peace can be my lot;

Ne’er yet my spirit found such cause to grieve

As now in leaving thee: and if thy thought

Of me in absence should be sorrow-fraught,

Oft will my heart repentant turn to thee,

Dwelling, in fruitless wishes, on this spot,

And all the gracious words here said to me.

O gracious God! to thee I bend my knee,