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I made a garland for her head, And bracelets too, and fragrant zone; She look'd at me as she did love, And made sweet moan. She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew, And sure in language strange she said.— I love thee true. She took me to her elfin grot, And there she gaz'd and sighed deep, And there I shut her wild ...
Japamala. A japamala, jaap maala, or simply mala (Sanskrit: माला; mālā, meaning ' garland ' [1]) is a loop of prayer beads commonly used in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. It is used for counting recitations (japa) of mantras, prayers or other sacred phrases. It is also worn to ward off evil, to count ...
Sailor tattoos are traditions of tattooing among sailors, including images with symbolic meanings. These practices date back to at least the 16th century among European sailors, and since colonial times among American sailors. People participating in these traditions have included military service members in national navies, seafarers in ...
Festoon of the Panthéon, Paris, by Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, 1758–1790 [1]. A festoon (from French feston, Italian festone, from a Late Latin festo, originally a festal garland, Latin festum, feast) is a wreath or garland hanging from two points, and in architecture typically a carved ornament depicting conventional arrangement of flowers, foliage or fruit bound ...
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa')[a] is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea, with a large, cresting wave ...
Symbolist painting. Jupiter and Semele (1894–1895), by Gustave Moreau, Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris. Symbolist painting was one of the main artistic manifestations of symbolism, a cultural movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century in France and developed in several European countries. The beginning of this current was in poetry ...
Tattoos on a Catholic woman from the Lašva Valley in central Bosnia. The most common symbols tattooed were the cross (križ), bracelet (narukvica), fence (ograda), and branches or twigs (grančica). [18] The cross had numerous variations, with one of the most common ones included small branch-like lines called "grančica" or "jelica" (pine ...
Gay icons through the ages, clockwise from top left: Madonna, Liza Minnelli, RuPaul, Barbra Streisand, Beyoncé, Judy Garland. (Photos: Getty Images; collage by Nathalie Cruz for Yahoo Life)