1880s The Long Walk At Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire – Marie Spartali Stillman, Watercolour
‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.‘
The Sensitive Plant, study, Sir Frank Dicksee, English Pre-Raphaelite Painter
Byron's Muse 
I visited Kelmscott recently. Lovely post about a lovely place. It was a country retreat, but the people who lived there had tangled love lives so it was not always peaceful. Gardens look much the same as in the painting.
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It’s nice of you to comment, perhaps you could write a post about your visit to Kelmscott, I’d be delighted to read it!
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