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Harry Clarke RHA (1889 - 1931)

Long Ago, These Lovers Fled Away
(Design for the Eve of St. Agnes Window)
Irish School
Pencil, watercolour on paper
28 x 15 cm
Gibson Fund Purchase from the artist, 1924
101-P

 

 

 

XLII.

And they are gone: ay, ages long ago
These lovers fled away into the storm.
That night the Baron dreamt of many a woe,
And all his warrior-guests, with shade and form
Of witch, and demon, and large coffin-worm,
Were long be-nightmar’d. Angela the old
Died palsy-twitch’d, with meagre face deform;
The Beadsman, after thousand aves told,
For aye unsought for slept among his ashes cold.

"The Eve of St. Agnes"
John Keats