Tag Archives: Poetry

Up the Hills Must Homeward Be

8×10″ pen and pastel on paper March 16, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s poem “The Hills”: “She was not born among the hills, Yet on each mountain face A something known her inward eye By inborn … Continue reading

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To My Sisters, In Blood and Spirit

8×10″ pen and watercolor on paper February 3, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from the poem “To a Sister” by George MacDonald: A fresh young voice that sings to me So often many a simple thing, Should surely not … Continue reading

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God Thought About You, And So I Am Here

8×10″ markers on paper February 1, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from the poem “Baby” by George MacDonald: What makes your forehead so smooth and high? A soft hand stroked it as I walked by. What makes your cheek … Continue reading

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I Follow As I Can

7×9″ oil on canvas July 24, 2012 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Written For One in Sore Pain”: I were still a wandering sheep But for thee, O Shepherd-man! Following now, I faint, I weep, Yet I … Continue reading

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I Know the Rapture Music Brings

8×10″ pastels on recycled paper June 22, 2012 Buy prints Inspired by the poem “I Know What Beauty Is” by George MacDonald, specifically the following stanza: I know the rapture music brings, The power that dwells in ordered tones, A … Continue reading

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