Friday 30 September 2011

Ferry Hinksey

"Beyond the ferry water that fast and silent flowed,
She turned, she gazed a moment, then took her onward road.

Between the winding willows to a city white with spires:
It seemed a path of pilgrims to the home of earth's desires.

Blue shade of golden branches spread for her journeying,
Till he that lingered lost her among the leaves of Spring."
 
- Laurence Binyon


 

© Alison Day Designs

4 comments:

  1. ah, that's great, dear Alison! love the movement and all the patterns!

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  2. Hello Daria, I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks

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  3. Lovely! the patterns and the colours are beautiful ... and the poem reminds me of 'The Lady of Shallot' so much - a poem I have always loved cos it's so visual, Do you think it's based on that?

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  4. Reading it again, you never know maybe Laurence Binyon was influenced by the poem, as there are similarities.

    The 'The Lady of Shallot' looks like a great source for illustration inspiration

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