In the Green Morning, Now, Once More

In the green morning, before
Love was destiny,
The sun was king,
And God was famous.

The merry, the musical,
The jolly, the magical,
The feast, the feast of feasts, the festival
Suddenly ended
As the sky descended
But there was only the feeling,
In all the dark falling,
Of fragrance and of freshness, of birth and beginning.

Delmore Schwartz

Le Petit Déjeuner, 1930
Emmanuel Sougez

The Olly and Dolly Sisters, ca. 1925
László Moholy-Nagy

Love Film (1970)
István Szabó

White Cat, ca. 1935-38
Gertrude Abercrombie

Coney Island Boardwalk, New York City, ca. 1928-29
Walker Evans

In the Garden, c. 1922


Self-Portrait, 1923
Mabel Alvarez

Entering the Work, 1971
Giovanni Anselmo

William O'Donovan and a Lady, ca. 1880s
Thomas Eakins

Oblomov (1980)
Nikita Mikhalkov