BEAUTY IS 

IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Poem for Today - March 1, 2014

THE BEAUTIFUL

Three things there are more beautiful

Than any man could wish to see:
The first, it is a full-rigged ship

Sailing with all her sails set free;

The second, when the wind and sun

Are playing in a field of corn;

The third, a woman, young and fair,

Showing her child before it is born.

© W.H. Davies

Painting on top: 
"The Artist's Wife"
by Laurits Anderson Ring 
- 1897. This is L.A. ring's
portrait of his 22 year old
wife - Sigrid Kahler. 
He was 42 and this
was a year after
their marriage.