Kill them in their flush of bloom

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From On the Slain Collegians: Selections from the poems of Herman Melville. Edited, and with woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Noonday Press, 1971.

Sancho Panza Attended by his State Physician — Frederick Yeates Hurlstone

Sancho Panza Attended by his State Physician exhibited 1868 by Frederick Yeates Hurlstone 1800-1869

The Dejected Lady — James Ensor

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Awakening — Maki Horanai

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Perseus and Andromeda — Gustave Moreau

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Czech King Podjebrad Introduces Matthias the Hungarian Delegates — Viktor Madarász

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Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at Eighteen Metres Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln — Salvador Dali

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Abraham Lincoln — William H. Johnson

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Bleeding Heart — Georgia O’Keeffe

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St. Valentine with a Donor — Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Perseus Rescuing Andromeda (detail) — Piero di Cosimo

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Hushed — Frank Holl

Hushed 1877 by Frank Holl 1845-1888

Vanitas Newtoniana — Agostino Arrivabene

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Perseus Rescuing Andromeda (detail) — Piero di Cosimo

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The Howl — Jean Veber

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The Bride — Theodor von Holst

The Bride 1842 by Theodor von Holst 1810-1844