Author Adrienne Morris

The Writing Life at Middlemay Farm

ART: Uplands And Sky by Adrian Stokes

Uplands and Sky 1886-8 by Adrian Stokes 1854-1935
Courtesy Tate Museum

Rise, O my soul, with thy desires to heaven,

And with divinest contemplation use

Thy time where time’s eternity is given,

And let vain thoughts no more thy thoughts abuse;

But down in darkness let them lie:

So live thy better, let thy worse thoughts die!

–Sir Walter Raleigh.

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5 responses to “ART: Uplands And Sky by Adrian Stokes”

  2. Love this exhortation from Raleigh! It reminds me of that line in Hamlet (Act IV, Scene 4) when he tells his mother, who has said that his words have “cleft my heart in twain,” to “throw away the worser part of it,/And live the purer with the other half.”

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    • Oh, the beauty of language! I hope they never give up teaching Shakespeare in school.

      Off topic a little, once I watched Shakespeare in Love while recovering from a malady and enjoyed it. I decided years later it would be a good family movie night pick–I guess the drugs I had been on at the time caused me to forget about the explicit sex scenes–oh, well. My kids still give me a hard time over that! LOL

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My aim is to keep you turning pages well past bedtime with historical family sagas. Complex characters are my thing. I want to draw you into the lives of people you will love, hate and cry over. My goal is for history to come alive for you whether it be in a Civil War field hospital, an experimental Utopian society or in the dark-paneled rooms of Gilded Age socialites. If you like Gone with the Wind, Cold Mountain and Age of Innocence you may enjoy The Tenafly Road Series.
When not writing novels, you can find me knee-deep in farm muck.
 

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