Phantoms (verse)
McGuire, Harry
May 12, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 15 getting bitter. It seemed to him that all his work was THE MONTH OF...
...affection for Mary...
...One he regrets the old values in painting and the old values might tell the flowers which are named for her and in life...
...other blossoms as an offering to her...
...What has become of it now...
...lack of perspective...
...this, the Virgin is a figure of girlish innocence whose Their faces fantastic and painted, grave face reflects the beauty of holy thoughts...
...Exiled- white-the Annunciation flower, and as such, especieveryone was exiled...
...There are many interesting legends consitting so miserably before the geometrical design necting it with the Virgin Mother...
...so generally introduce the lily in their Annunciations...
...From the twelfth century it had stood there they are as much a part of art symbolism as the blue with its images that were so little influenced by of her robe...
...remained, have made a wilderness about me...
...Certainly, whatever the master Cold as the dread of cost- loses for the modern eye by this seeming over-care for To a man who has waited to battle his sins detail, should be as nothing when compared with his To the last-and lost...
...A more modern They will come with the hordes of evening Annunciation is that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
...This extraordinary hosts of blooms, such as the marigold, bear her name, cerebral simplification of life, intensely earnest, indeed while others, such as the narcissus, have been dedicated resembled his work...
...One of the most beautiful is that of Fra Filippo Lippi, Phantoms with its vase of alabaster containing lilies, and its angel I will call them with a great bellow, bearing the traditional lily wand and kneeling on a Holding my gun on the stoop ; carpet of tiny flowering plants...
...PerThe phantom marchers moving still . sonally, I presume to feel that the vase and flowers Moving upon me...
...mir...
...reverential treatment...
...It breathes a spirit of geniality...
...He remembers as a student taking tea in those which have interested the painters...
...Then he will die at the sword-point And do you remember Giovanni di Paolo's Paradise, Who knew not how to live, with its animals, trees and flowers, the lily being repreWho thought his sins were phantoms sented...
...It seemed to him that all his work was THE MONTH OF MARY like the new perspective that painters were talking about-the perspective of motion which, in a room By ALICE T. A. QUACKENBUSH for instance, altered the accepted relations of objects T HE gracious season of spring is here and it seems on the theory that to a moving body they had a dyna- fitting that the month when flowers begin to bloom, mic and not a static value...
...He remembers, in Venice, the Pietro Longhi give the reasons...
...What has become of First in importance, of course, is the lily-always the Prebejenskies in whose house he sits...
...ern conception of the life hereafter for all its mediaeval HARRY MCGUIRE...
...I am choosing rather to speak of interiors...
...Tonight of living things, with one who is purity itself...
...He remembers his pilgrimage to the Those who gave us the great Madonnas made freChurch of the Intercession of the Virgin, near Wladi- quent use of flowers in connection with the Holy Pair...
...This painting is filled with detail, A look of anguish on my old white face and were the balance less perfect or in the hands of a As the smoke clears, and I see lesser artist, there might be a sense of crowding...
...to her...
...From the careful and accurate treatByzantium, and had so completely the old Russian ment of them, one may credit the artists with a sincere tenderness...
...The Revealed to the look of the moon, Saint Michael seems a bit overwhelming to one familSilently they will disembark- iar with the older treatment of the subject...
...And then it occurred to the man ally sacred...
...this very room...
...In In a silver sloop...
...In a vision, he was directed to strike the from a memory which is intact-while I, who have earth three times with his staff, to reveal her life...
...Weird platoon...
...would benefit by a softer background-decided imCold as the kiss of hell their steel- pertinence on my part...
...In a characterisThere will be a sound in the stillness tic canvas, Ghirlandajo placed it with lesser blooms in A barrel hot, a vase at her feet...
...Perhaps the loveliwhich had failed to take the wind and snow into est is that of Mary's faithful knight, Saint Dominic, account, that he, himself, was the real exile...
...They, who asked for a sign from heaven as proof of her the ones abroad and the ones who are dead, are exiled virginity...
...A winsome thing with an unmistakably modGod, forgive...
...Probably The kommissaar pokes up the fire and seeks an it is because of stories such as this that the masters answer to his own accusation...
...Although the lily will always be the Virgin's typical And I will raise my musket flower, painters do not hestitate to combine it with For its last shot...
...A happy association, this, of the most ethereal Perhaps he was too old a man for the job...
...For the frame and already half gone...
...The results were strange, called May in pagan mythology, should be set apart unbalanced compositions with women walking out of in the Christian calendar as the month of Mary...
...May 12, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 15 getting bitter...
...After each stroke, a stalk of lilies appeared...
Vol. 4 • May 1926 • No. 1
