Portrait of Richard Chopping by Francis Bacon - GUILTLESS HEART by Sir Francis Bacon - If guiltless blood be your intent (Susanna) by Georg Friedrich Händel

Portrait of Richard Chopping by Francis Bacon

GUILTLESS HEART by Sir Francis Bacon

The man of life upright, whose guiltless heart is free

From all dishonest deeds and thoughts of vanity:

The man whose silent days in harmless joys are spent,

Whom hopes cannot delude, nor fortune discontent;

That man needs neither towers nor armor for defense,

Nor secret vaults to fly from thunder’s violence:

He only can behold with unaffrighted eyes

The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies;

Thus scorning all the care that fate or fortune brings,

He makes the heaven his book, his wisdom heavenly things;

Good thoughts his only friends, his wealth a well-spent age,

The earth his sober inn and quiet pilgrimage.

If guiltless blood be your intent (Susanna) 

by Georg Friedrich Händel

Giorgio de Chirico Love Song - A Valentine by Edgar Allan Poe - Adele - Lovesong (Live At The Royal Albert Hall)

Giorgio de Chirico Love Song

(This Valentine Poem from Edgar Allen Poe was originally titled "To Her Whose Name Is Written Below." The poem was for Frances Sargent Osgood and her name is within the poem. To find the name, take the first letter of the first line, the second letter of the second line, the third letter of the third line, and so on until the end.)

A Valentine by Edgar Allan Poe

For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,

Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda,

Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies

Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.

Search narrowly the lines!- they hold a treasure

Divine- a talisman- an amulet

That must be worn at heart. Search well the measure-

The words- the syllables! Do not forget

The trivialest point, or you may lose your labor

And yet there is in this no Gordian knot

Which one might not undo without a sabre,

If one could merely comprehend the plot.

Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering

Eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus

Three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing

Of poets, by poets- as the name is a poet's, too,

Its letters, although naturally lying

Like the knight Pinto- Mendez Ferdinando-

Still form a synonym for Truth- Cease trying!

You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do.

Adele - Lovesong (Live At The Royal Albert Hall)

Albani, Francesco (1578-1660) Venus Attended By Nymphs And Cupids - Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Antonio Vivaldi - Lute Concerto in D major

Albani, Francesco (1578-1660)

Venus Attended By Nymphs And Cupids

Antonio Vivaldi - Lute Concerto in D major

Grief

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;

That only men incredulous of despair,

Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air

Beat upward to God's throne in loud access

Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,

In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare

Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare

Of the absolute Heavens. Deep-hearted man, express

Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death--

Most like a monumental statue set

In everlasting watch and moveless woe

Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.

Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:

If it could weep, it could arise and go.