Sunday 29 August 2010

Italian Days
R is for Rose


Nobody knows this little Rose --
It might a pilgrim be
Did I not take it from the ways
And lift it up to thee.
Only a Bee will miss it --
Only a Butterfly,
Hastening from far journey --
On its breast to lie --

Only a Bird will wonder --
Only a Breeze will sigh --
Ah Little Rose -- how easy
For such as thee to die!

(Emily Dickinson)

Photographed
27 August 2010
in a village in
Friuli–Venezia Giulia
Italy
© 2010 by Merisi


10 comments:

  1. How gorgeous! I love the delicate roses against the graphic lettering here.

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  2. Lovely, I collect china jugs with roses on them. This would be a perfect rose.

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  3. Lovely compositions! You illustrate Emily D. so well.

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  4. Thank you for the beautiful Shakespeare piece you left me! xxamy

    I love the first photo here today.

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  5. Your eyes perceive so much, Merisi, and you bring it to us through your pictures.

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  6. I have never been to Fruili-whatsit and am deeply, truly, madly jealous!
    Did you happen to see George C.?
    you could have tossed him a rose...sigh

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  7. Thank you all for your wonderful comments!

    Paris Breakfast,
    Friuli-Venezia Giulia is an incredibly diverse and intersting region, offering everything, from the mountains to the sea, and then, Trieste, to top it all off!

    Georgie-boy resides at Lake Como (I only tossed him a virtual kiss over the mountain when I drove from Milan to Bergamo *giggles*), that is way west of F-VG, in the Lombardy region of Italy, Milan is the capital.

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  8. Love the photographs of the red letters and rose!

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  9. Roses are one of my faves! You took the sense of the rose in these pics!

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