Virgin of Renown Proclaim her, O ye stars that form her crown! Proclaim her, sky, in your expanse of blue! Declare her chastity, the swan’s white down! And you, O sun, her glories ever new! Shadows of clouds that move across our plains, Her alternating joys and...
Ode to Spring Spring, step not softly, renovate the sense! My trembling thoughts unravel into leaves, With your perfumes the new-born air is dense, And every tendril to your trellis cleaves. The world is but a canvas for your brush, Your palette infinite with...
Comforter of the Afflicted The Penitent Thief Speaks to Christ on the Cross. My Lord and King, know that I do not know How choked with gore I now confess Thy reign, Or sense, through all those streams of blood that flow Across Thy face, Thy majesty so plain. Or...
A Notre Dame de Paris by Joseph Charles MacKenzie, Performed by Albert Durant https://mackenzielyricpoetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/A-Notre-Dame-de-Paris-Lu-et-dir-par-Albert-Durant-Avec-Lute.mp3 Ecrit le 15 avril 2019, durant que l’incendie avait lieu....
Vierge à l’enfant, Ivoire. Louvre, Paris. c. 1260-1270 ad What curve, what contrapposto, shift of weight, Recalls the tusk from which some Gothic hand Had carved the Paris Virgin holding straight My King enthroned upon an ivory stand! What smiles, no...
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