Happy Easter!

Christ en majesté, Matthias Grünewald, 16th c.: Resurrection of Jesus

Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus

Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus
Oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret
born 1852 - died 1929

The Morning of the Resurrection

The Morning of the Resurrection
Edward Burne-Jones
(28 August 1833 – 17 June 1898)

An Easter Carol

Carl Heinrich Bloch
(Born 23 May 1834- Died 22 February 1890)
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An Easter Carol
by Christina Rossetti

Spring bursts to-day,
For Christ is risen and all the earth’s at play.

Flash forth, thou Sun,
The rain is over and gone, its work is done.

Winter is past,
Sweet Spring is come at last, is come at last.

Bud, Fig and Vine,
Bud, Olive, fat with fruit and oil and wine.

Break forth this morn
In roses, thou but yesterday a Thorn.

Uplift thy head,
O pure white Lily through the Winter dead.

Beside your dams
Leap and rejoice, you merry-making Lambs.

All Herds and Flocks
Rejoice, all Beasts of thickets and of rocks.

Sing, Creatures, sing,
Angels and Men and Birds and everything.

All notes of Doves
Fill all our world: this is the time of loves.

An Easter Poem

George Herbert - Easter
Rise, heart, thy lord is risen. Sing his praise
Without delays,
Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise
With him may'st rise:
That, as his death calcinèd thee to dust,
His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.

Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part
With all thy art,
The cross taught all wood to resound his name
Who bore the same.
His stretchèd sinews taught all strings what key
Is best to celebrate this most high day.

Consort, both heart and lute, and twist a song
Pleasant and long;
Or, since all music is but three parts vied
And multiplied
Oh let thy blessèd Spirit bear a part,
And make up our defects with his sweet art.