The Visitation by Ann Harper
The Visitation by Ann Harper - 24"x20" Oil on Canvas - sold
all images copyright Ann Harper 2004 - all rights reserved
Spirit, lovely guest, who are you?
   Whence have you flown down to us?
Taciturn and without a sound
   Why have you abandoned us?
Where are you? Where is your dwelling?
   What are you, where did you go?
Why did you appear,
   Heavenly, upon the Earth?

Mayhap you are youthful Hope,
   Who arrives from time to time
Cloaked in magic
   From a land unknown?
Merciless as Hope,
   Sweetest joy you show us
For a moment, then
   Take it back and fly away.

By:  Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky