Of course!

I hope this works.

http://faculty.smu.edu/tmayo/icarus.htm

http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/mu...ebeauxarts.htm

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Copyright © 1976 by Edward Mendelson, William Meredith and Monroe K. Spears,
Executors of the Estate of W. H. Auden.


Sorry i can't figure out how to paste the picture here, please look it up, it is quite wonderful.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Day Dream - 1880

In a world where there is much ugliness, it is the creators of Beauty who are the true revolutionaries.

Edward Robert Hughes

Night with her Train of Stars and her Great Gift of Sleep - 1912

BTW - It works. hehehehehehe (have it right over my bed)