Two Profile Heads of a Young Woman (Nasleh)

Two Profile Heads of a Young Woman (Nasleh), Leopold Carl Muller, Austrian 1843-92, Oil on Panel. In the collection of The Walters Art Museum. http://thewalters.org/. On view in "From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story"

Of Splendor In the Grass, of Glory In the Flower

ODE: Intimations of immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood(1803-1806) 

By: William Wordsworth

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Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!
              And let the young Lambs bound
              As to the tabor's sound!
          We in thought will join your throng,
              Ye that pipe and ye that play,
              Ye that through your hearts to-day
              Feel the gladness of the May!
          What though the radiance which was once so bright
          Be now for ever taken from my sight,
              Though nothing can bring back the hour
          Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
              We will grieve not, rather find
              Strength in what remains behind;
              In the primal sympathy
              Which having been must ever be;
              In the soothing thoughts that spring
              Out of human suffering;
              In the faith that looks through death,
          In years that bring the philosophic mind.

for the complete poem http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww331.html

A Roman Slave Market

A Roman Slave Market by Jean-Léon Gérôme . 1884, Oil on canvas.  http://art.thewalters.org/detail/22738/a-roman-slave-market/

These first two images I took while viewing the From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story exhibit at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. The last is from The Walters online image database. http://art.thewalters.org/detail/22738/a-roman-slave-market/ 

This painting is connected to an earlier work by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Phryne before the Areopagus, 1861 Oil on Canvas (below)