The nature of beauty:
I Say There Is No Physical Beauty (“This skin, this flesh, this bone are but the clay of which we make our beauty.”)
Goddesses (“Beauty so inward and effortless …”)
“Peter Quince at the Clavier” (Wallace Stevens)
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare (Edna Millay)
Adam’s Curse (W. B. Yeats)
“Beauty” (Cynthia Gralla)
“Rothko and Cassandra” (Bill Wolf)
The beauty of nature:
I Left My Mittens in the Smokies
Laguna Beach (“… the beauty of the green cliffs rising above the hypnotic blue water….”)
“The Tyger” (William Blake)
“In These Fields” (Charlotte Mew) (“Can I believe there is a heavenlier world than this?)
“Rothko and Cassandra” (Bill Wolf) (“… meant more to him than the sea and the sky, the sun and the moon.”)