Charing Cross Road, London, 1937
Wolf Suschitzky

                V

Lean out of the window,
    Goldenhair,
I heard you singing
    A merry air.

My book was closed;
    I read no more,
Watching the fire dance
    On the floor.

I have left my book,
    I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
    Through the gloom.

Singing and singing
    A merry air,
Lean out of the window,
    Goldenhair.

James Joyce
Chamber Music

Canzone, 1934
Antonio Donghi

Sunlight, 1909
John White Alexander

Lydia with her Hair in a Net, ca. 1939
Henri Matisse

O Amor Natural (1996)
Heddy Honigmann

Blue Surround, 1982
Richard Diebenkorn

I Sang

I sang to you and the moon
But only the moon remembers.
      I sang
O reckless free-hearted
                        free-throated rhythms,
Even the moon remembers them
      And is kind to me.

White Shoulders

Your white shoulders
         I remember
And your shrug of laughter.

         Low laughter
         Shaken slow
From your white shoulders.

Carl Sandburg

Czechoslovakian Gymnasts, San Francisco, 1939
John Gutmann

Woman with Mimosa, 1924
Pierre Bonnard