Springing forward with Shelley

The above is a nice splash of emotive color for the coming summer and beach at the sea, it's by Eduard Tomek [1912-2001], "Sea". Here's a poem for the mood of spring and Easter and summer coming, it's from the beginning of Shelley's "On an icicle..."; read more here.

Also, there's more Shelley up over at CultureNav here.

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Oh! take the pure gem to where southerly breezes,
Waft repose to some bosom as faithful as fair,
In which the warm current of love never freezes,
As it rises unmingled with selfishness there,
Which, untainted by pride, unpolluted by care,
Might dissolve the dim icedrop, might bid it arise,
Too pure for these regions, to gleam in the skies. [...]