Mermaids 1, watercolor and gouache on paper, cm 35x25
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb'd I would sing and say,
'Who is it loves me? who loves not me?'
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb'd I would sing and say,
'Who is it loves me? who loves not me?'
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mermaids 2, watercolor and gouache on paper, cm 35x25
She looks at him, her hair she brushes,
Blows airy kisses, gestures wild,
Plays with the waves - caresses, splashes -
Now laughs, now whimpers like a child,
Moans tenderly, calls louder, louder.
Blows airy kisses, gestures wild,
Plays with the waves - caresses, splashes -
Now laughs, now whimpers like a child,
Moans tenderly, calls louder, louder.
Alexander Pushkin
Mermaids 3, watercolor and gouache on paper, cm 65 x 25
A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.
William Butler Yeats
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Mermaid 4, watercolor on paper cm 25 x 35
She sang to him, and spake the while:
"Why lurest thou my brood,
With human wit and human guile
With human wit and human guile
From out their native flood?
Oh, couldst thou know how gladly dart
Oh, couldst thou know how gladly dart
The fish across the sea,
Thou wouldst descend, e'en as thou art,
Thou wouldst descend, e'en as thou art,
And truly happy be!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Mermaid 5, watercolor on paper cm 55x35
