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

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