Reposting of a previous blog.
SPRINGTIME IN PARIS
AWAKENINGS ALONG THE SEINE
Childe Hassam, Pont Royal, Paris, 1897, oil on canvas, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
A Light exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period
When March is scarcely here.
Emily Dickinson, A Light Exists in Spring
Both American Impressionist Childe Hassam (1859-1935) and poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) were from New England. In contrast to Hassam, who traveled widely, Dickinson rarely left her Amherst home in Massachusetts. Yet the two have captured the essence of early spring above, one in words, the other in paint.
The above image is used solely for educational purposes and in the U.S. public domain.
