Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art. Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

The TygerWilliam Blake

And now there came both mist and snow,And it grew wondrous cold:And ice, mast-high, came floating by,As green as emerald.

And through the drifts the snowy cliftsDid send a dismal sheen:Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken - The ice was all between.

The ice was here, the ice was there,The ice was all around:It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,Like noises in a swound!

At length did cross an Albatross,Thorough the fog it came;As it had been a Christian soul,We hailed it in God's name.

From Coleridge’s“Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

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Fishing Boats Entering Cal (1803) WMJ Turner

Two Young Girls Among Flowers 1909 Odilon Redon

Monk by the Sea (1809) Caspar David Friedrich

Abbey in an Oak Forest (1809)Caspar David Freidrich

#38 (1958) Mark Rothko

#20 (1957) Mark Rothko