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Harry Clarke RHA (1889 - 1931)

The Key Turns

The Key Turns
(Design for the Eve of St. Agnes Window)
Irish School
Pencil and watercolour on paper
27 x 29 cm
Gibson Fund Purchase from the artist, 1924
100-P

 

 

 

XLI.

They glide, like phantoms, into the wide hall;
Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they glide;
Where lay the Porter, in uneasy sprawl,
With a huge empty flaggon by his side;
The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide,
But his sagacious eye an inmate owns:
By one, and one, the bolts full easy slide:—
The chains lie silent on the footworn stones;—
The key turns, and the door upon its hinges groan.

"The Eve of St. Agnes"
John Keats