Guido Reni The Penitent Magdalene painting

Guido Reni The Penitent Magdalene paintingEdward Hopper People In The Sun paintingEdwin Austin Abbey Hamlet Play Scene painting
standing, as if loth to join the assembly in its devotions. Bursting into tears, the water--carrier flees into the empty heart of the city of the sands. His teardrops, as he runs, burn holes in the earth, as if they contain some harsh corrosive acid.
Mahound remains motionless. No trace of moisture can be detected on the lashes of his unopened eyes.
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On that night of the desolating triumph of the in the tent of the unbelievers, there take place certain murders for which the first lady of Jahilia will wait years to take her terrible revenge.
The Prophet's uncle Hamza has been walking alone, his head bowed and grey in the twilight of that melancholy victory, when he hears a roar and looks up, to see a gigantic scarlet lion poised to leap at him from the high battlements of the city. He knows this beast, this fable. _The iridescence