When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
~Hamlet
(enjoy this little collection of paintings of Ophelia)
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| Ophelia by Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889) |
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| Ophelia by Marcus Stone (1840 - 1921) |
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| Ophelia by Gaston Bussière (1862-1928) |
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| Ophelia by Antoine Auguste Ernest Hebert (1817-1908) |
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| Ophelia and He Will Not Come Again by Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) |
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| Ophelia by Paul Albert Steck (1866?-1924) |
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| Ophelia by James Sant (1820-1916) |
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| Ophelia by Theodor von der Beek (1838-1921) |
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| Ophelia by Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930) |
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| Ophelia by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) |
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| Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1829–1896) |
Great collection! Adore the motif.
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