Tag Archives: Vasily Surikov

Painting, Poetry

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June 30, 2013 Larkrise

Icon-lamp. Vasily Surikov. 1881.

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Samantha Little, 2013

A cloud snuffed the sun

And light fled into candle-flame—

All her world contracted

In a dull disk of gold.

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