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" PAOLO E FRANCESCA. R.A.
"Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse Quando legemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante, Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso, La bocca mi baci tutto tremante: Galeotto fu'l libro e chi lo scrisse: Quel giorno piu non vi legemmo avante."
" A DREAM. R.A.
... "Not yet--not yet-- Still there is trial for thee, still the lot To bear (the Father wills it) strife and care; With this sweet consciousness in balance set Against the world, to soothe thy suffering there Thy Lord rejects thee not.
Such tender words awoke me hopeful, shriven To life on earth again from dream of heaven."
" LIEDER OHNE WORTE. R.A.
" J. A. A STUDY. R.A.
" CAPRI--PAGANOS. R.A.
1862. ODALISQUE. R.A.
" *THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. (60 23-1/2 in.) R.A.
One of the Magi, from the terrace of his house, stands looking at the star in the East; the lower part of the picture indicates a road, which he may be supposed just to have left.
" SISTERS. R.A.
" *MICHAEL ANGELO NURSING HIS DYING SERVANT. (43 36 in.) R.A.
" DUETT. R.A.
" SEA ECHOES. R.A.
" RUSTIC MUSIC.
1863. JEZEBEL AND AHAB, having caused Naboth to be put to death, go down to take possession of his vineyard; they are met at the entrance by Elijah the Tishbite: R.A.
"Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?"
" *EUCHARIS. (A Girl with a Basket of Fruit.) (32-1/2 22 in.) R.A.
" A GIRL FEEDING PEAc.o.c.kS. R.A.
" AN ITALIAN CROSSBOW-MAN. (15 24-1/2 in.) R.A.
1864. DANTE AT VERONA. R.A.
" *ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE. (49 42 in.) R.A.
"But give them me--the mouth, the eyes,--the brow-- Let them once more absorb me! One look now Will lap me round for ever, not to pa.s.s Out of its light, though darkness lie beyond!
Hold me but safe again within the bond Of one immortal look! All woe that was, Forgotten, and all terror that may be, Defied--no past is mine, no future! look at me!"
ROBERT BROWNING: _A Fragment_.
" *GOLDEN HOURS. (36 48 in.) R.A.
" *PORTRAIT OF THE LATE MISS LAVINIA I'ANSON. (Circular, 12-1/2 in.)
1865. *DAVID. (37 47 in.) R.A.
"Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away and be at rest." _Psalm_ lv.
" MOTHER AND CHILD. R.A.
" WIDOW'S PRAYER. R.A.
" HELEN OF TROY. R.A.
"Thus as she spoke, in Helen's breast arose Fond recollections of her former lord, Her home, and parents; o'er her head she threw A snowy veil; and shedding tender tears She issued forth not unaccompanied; For with her went fair aethra, Pittheus' child.
And stag-eyed Clymene, her maidens twain.
They quickly at the Scaean gate arrived."
" IN ST. MARK'S. R.A.
1866. PAINTER'S HONEYMOON. R.A.
" PORTRAIT OF MRS. JAMES GUTHRIE. R.A.
" SYRACUSAN BRIDE LEADING WILD BEASTS IN PROCESSION TO THE TEMPLE OF DIANA. R.A.
(Suggested by a pa.s.sage in the second Idyll of Theocritus.)
"And for her, then, many other wild beasts were going in procession round about, and among them a lioness."
" THE WISE AND FOOLISH VIRGINS. (Fresco in Lyndhurst Church.)
1867. *PASTORAL. (51-1/2 26 in.) R.A.
" *GREEK GIRL DANCING. (Spanish Dancing Girl: Cadiz in the old times.) (34 45 in.) R.A.
" KNUCKLE-BONE PLAYER. R.A.
" *ROMAN MOTHER. (24 19 in.) R.A.
" *VENUS DISROBING FOR THE BATH. (79 35-1/2 in.) R.A.
" *PORTRAIT OF MRS. JOHN HANSON WALKER. (18 16 in.)
1868. JONATHAN'S TOKEN TO DAVID. R.A.
"And it came to pa.s.s in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed by David, and a little lad with him."
" *PORTRAIT OF MRS. FREDERICK P. c.o.c.kERELL. (23-1/2 19-1/2 in.) R.A.
" *PORTRAIT OF JOHN MARTINEAU, ESQ. (23-1/2 19-1/2 in.)
