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But When I Find

But When I Find

8×10″ oil on canvas panel September 2, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from “Love’s Ordeal” by George MacDonald: But when I find a heart whose blood is wine; — Whose faith lights up the cold brain’s passionless hour; Whose love, like unborn rose-bud, will not pine, But waits the sun […]

Ah God! Why Are Our Souls Lone Helpless Seas

Ah, God! Why Are Our Souls, Lone Helpless Seas

11×14″ oil on canvas July 1, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from A Story of the Sea Shore by George MacDonald: Ah, God! why are our souls, lone helpless seas, Tortured with such immitigable storm? What is this love, that now on angel wing Sweeps us amid the stars in […]

I Stood in Joy, and Yet in Shame

I Stood in Joy, and Yet in Shame

11×14″ oil on canvas July 7, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following stanzas from A Book of Dreams by George MacDonald: I lay and dreamed. The Master came In His old woven dress; I stood in joy, and yet in shame, Oppressed with earthliness. He stretched His arms, and gently sought To […]

Hark! I Hear the Sun

Hark! I Hear the Sun!

16×20″ oil on canvas July 14, 2012 Buy original Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Lilith by George MacDonald: “Hark! I hear the sun,” said Adam. I listened: he was coming with the rush as of a thousand times ten thousand far-off wings, with the roar of a molten and flaming world millions […]

Only Because Uplifted in Song

Only Because Uplifted in Song

9×12″ oil on paper July 15, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald: Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.