Pier Francesco Mola; Echo and Narcissus
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/echo-and-narcissus-142386
After writing about echo poems and Narcissus flowers, well, this felt like a logical next step.
Again, pardon the formatting, I had a structure I wanted and this particular version of the blog just gets rid of multiple spaces which is… frustrating but I’m not fixing it right now.
Echo
Has greater beauty ever graced mortal eye?
I
No man has matched my beauty, on either land or sea.
__See
I look at my reflection for the best that man can view.
______You
And yet I find it lonely, no one to hear my cry
I
Am I all alone in how much that I love?
__Love
I just wish for a partner, that doesn’t seem undue.
______You
Oh, am I alone? I cry out to the sky.
I
Someone to share my beauty, that doesn’t seem amiss.
__Miss
For why am I so handsome if no one can share it true?
______You
I shall be content with this visage that I see.
See
For to tell the truth, there’s no partner to match me.
__Me
Found this interesting modern take when looking for Echo and Narcissus pictures on Wikimedia:
Intellectual Property of Elizabeth Doman
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