Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

ing to note how the vanishing sun colored some clouds and missed others altogether. The effect was often very striking as for example when a dead whitish grey cloud floated in front of a bright yellow mass of clouds.

Oh, it is pleasant with a heart at east,

Just after sunset or by moonlit skies,

To make the shifting clouds what you please,

Or let the easily persuaded eyes

Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould

Of a friends fancy; or, with head bent low,

And cheek aslant, see rivers flow of gold,

‘Twist crimson banks; and then a traveller go

From mount to mount, through Cloudland, gorgeous land!

Or, listening to the tide with closed sight,

Be that blind Bard, who on the Chian Strand,

By those deep sounds possessed with inward light,

Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssee

Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.  - Coleridge.