GUSTAVE MOREAU ~ LEDA
Leda
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
Watercolour with gouache
c1875-c1880
21 x 34 cm
(8.27″ x 13.39″)
Gustave Moreau Museum (Paris, France)
LEDA
Come not with kisses
not with caresses
of hands and lips and murmurings;
come with a hiss of wings
and sea-touch tip of a beak
antr treading of wet, webbed, wave-working feet
into the marsh-soft belly.
DH. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
Leda, 1865-1875