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July 6, 2023On Seeing The Picture Of Æolus By Pelligrino Tibaldi, In The Institute At Bolog
Full well, Tibaldi, did thy kindred mind
The mighty spell of Buonarroti own.
Like one who, reading magic words, receives
The gift of intercourse with worlds unknown,
‘T was thine, deciphering Nature’s mystic leaves,
To hold strange converse with the viewless wind;
To see the Spirits, in embodied forms,
Of gales and whirlwinds, hurricanes and storms.
For, lo! obedient to thy bidding, teems
Fierce into shape their stern, relentless Lord:
His form of motion ever-restless seems;
Or, if to rest inclined his turbid soul,
On Hecla’s top to stretch, and give the word
To subject Winds that sweep the desert pole.
Washington Allston
Washington Allston (1779-1843) was an American painter and poet who is best known for his Romantic landscape paintings and his poetry. Allston's most famous works include "The Sylphs of the Seasons" and "America to Great Britain." Allston was also a close friend of the American writer Washington Irving.