The Gallery — July 22, 2026

I · Poem

Song

Christina Rossetti, 1862

Lines by an English poet, first published in Goblin Market and Other Poems in 1862.

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) was an English poet born in London, the youngest child of an Anglo-Italian family and sister of the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.[2] The poem appeared in her first commercial collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems, published by Macmillan in 1862.[1]

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II · Artwork

Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase

Rachel Ruysch, c. 1690–1720

A bouquet of tulips, roses, carnations, irises, poppies, hyacinths and morning glory stands in a glass vase on a marble tabletop against a dark ground.

A bouquet of many flowers in a glass vase on a marble ledge against a dark background. — Rachel Ruysch, Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase, c. 1690–1720. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.[1]

Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) was a Dutch still-life painter born in The Hague and active in Amsterdam, who apprenticed with the flower painter Willem van Aelst.[2] From 1708 she served as court painter to Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, in Düsseldorf, and the picture is held today by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.[1]

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III · Photograph

The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty

Julia Margaret Cameron, 1866

A woman is shown from the shoulders up against a dark ground, her face turned toward the viewer, with dark hair loose about her shoulders. The print is rendered in soft focus.

Soft-focus photographic portrait of a woman with loose hair, seen from the shoulders up against a dark background. — Julia Margaret Cameron, The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty, 1866. Albumen silver print from glass negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.[1]

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) was a British photographer born in Calcutta, India, who received her first camera in December 1863 at the age of forty-eight and worked at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight.[2] She made her negatives by the wet collodion process, and this print is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]

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