The Poet's Vision, Canto I, Laon and Cythna, William Huggins, 1852

For in the air do i behold indeed an eagle and a serpent wreathed in flight. There was a woman, beautiful as morning, sitting beneath the rocks, upon the sand of the waste sea-fair as one flower adorning an icy wilderness. Upon the sea-mark a small boat did wait, fair as herself, like love by hope left desolate. ' percy bysse shelley, 'the poet's vision' from laon and cythna. Object Type: painting. Date: 1852. Dimensions: height: 61 cm (24 in); width: 51 cm (20 in). Medium: oil on cardboard. William Huggins - The Poet's Vision, Canto I, Laon and Cythna