Saint Cecilia
This painting was inspired by a stanza from the poem “The Palace of Art” by Alfred Lord Tennyson:
“Or in a clear-wall'd city on the sea,
Near gilded organ-pipes, her hair
with white roses, slept Saint Cecily;
An angel look'd at her.”
Here is the entire poem if you’d like to read it:
https://victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/palacetxt2.html#2
If you were in handicrafts last semester, you will remember that John William Waterhouse painted three pictures based on another of Tennyson’s poems, “The Lady of Shalott.” Here they are again, and the poem, for those who weren’t there.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45359/the-lady-of-shalott-1832
Bonus question for any Agatha Christie fans: can you spot a line in this poem that Christie used as a book title?