To Helen

To Helen
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
to his own native shore.

On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have broght me home
To glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.

Lo! in yon brilliant window niche
How statuelike I see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy Land!

Dulac illustra Poe

Mirabile e incantevole è il lavoro compiuto da Edmond Dulac nell'illustrare alcune delle poesie di Edgar Allan Poe. Queste due sensibilità diverse, entrambe superbamente fluttuanti nella sfera del magico e del mistero, si incontrano negli scritti illustrati che riporterò nei prossimi post.

Metropolis-1926 - Scena di Maria and Frieder

Reclames Desuete (II)

Edmond Dulac (II)

Da "Stealers of Light " :

"The light she had thought to extinguish had escaped from her dying hands and floated always farther across the desert, shedding its marvellous radiance over rock and stone "

"They might have been lovers, so tender was his touch"

Da: "Dreamer of Dreams"

"Everything about her was white, glistening and shining"

"Eric lay now, stretched at the feet of the woman he could not leave "