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Claude Monet, The Thames at Westminster - Westminster Bridge - (1871), óleo sobre tela, 47 x 72.5 cm (18 1/2 x 28 1/2"); Colecção Lord Astor of Hever; National Gallery, Londres.



Versos porque em Londres ...

IV.

Is there a consolation
For the joy that comes never again?
Is there a balm remaining?
Is there a refuge from pain?
Is there a balm to quiet
The shame and the grief and the stinging?
Only the sweet, strange sadness,
That is the source of the singing.

Robert Buchanan,London Poems