Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

On Seeing Whistler's Portrait Of His Mother



(Sonnette)

What spirit in man's soul conceived such art,

Such bliss, to show his mother to a clan

Whose eager thirst for thanksgiving began,

With frantic fervor, ardent, set apart,

At mother's feet? A universal thought

In black and gray -- a vast inspired span

Of pregnant canvas, man and angel wrought!

Evelyn Coffey