Showing posts with label Luisenstadt I Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luisenstadt I Cemetery. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 November 2016

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Luisenstadt I Cemetery (24)

Luisenstadt cemetery, October 2015 © Emmanuelle Chaze

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, Macbeth, Acte V, Scene 5

Sunday, 25 October 2015

Luisenstadt I Cemetery (22)

Autumn leaves at Luisenstadt I cemetery, October 2015 © Emmanuelle Chaze


Herbstgefühl

Fetter grüne, du Laub, am Rebengeländer hier
mein Fenster herauf!
Gedrängter quellet, Zwillingsbeeren, und reifet
schneller und glänzend voller!
Euch brütet der Mutter Sonne Scheideblick,
euch umsäuselt des holden Himmels fruchtende Fülle
euch kühlet des Mondes freundlicher Zauberhauch,
und euch betauen, ach!
aus diesen Augen der ewig belebenden Liebe
vollschwellende Tränen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1775

Sunday, 18 October 2015

Luisenstadt I Cemetery (20)

Autumn leaves in Luisenstadt I cemetery, October 2015 © Emmanuelle Chaze


Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost, 1923.

Sunday, 16 August 2015