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destined to chase sunsets in different skies.

Mihály Zichy - Falling Stars (1879)

The poem reconfigures Van Gogh’s Starry Night not as a serene vision but as a violent, consuming force, transforming celestial beauty into a metaphor for self-annihilation. Stars are not tranquil; they “boil,” suggesting psychological unrest rather than awe. The single tree, likened to a drowned woman, evokes female suffering and bodily dissolution, recurring motifs in the author’s work.

National Museum in Warsaw

Mary L. Macomber - Night and Her Daughter Sleep (detail) 1988 Edward Robert Hughes - Night, undated

— Robert Scott Lauder (England, 1803–1869)

“Meteorites, aerolites, and fireballs.” Elements of astronomy. 1868. 

Artist: Edward Robert Hughes

"The Shooting Star" (L'Étoile filante) by J. J. Grandville, 1849.

Shared disease

"Comet Donati", colour lithograph by Philippe Benoist, from Amédée Guillemin's Le Ciel (1877).

Evening Star (also known as L'Étoile du soir), (Detail), (1848), by Henry Pierre Picou (French, 1824 – 1895), signed 'HENRY PICOU' (lower right), oil on canvas, 54 × 35½ in. (137.2 × 90 cm.), Private Collection

12" by 12"

Frederick Sandys - Study of a Woman's Head, before 1904 Graphite pencil on green paper with white chalk 50.8 x 41.3 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Henri Fantin-Latour - Flowers and Fruit

Maxfield Parrish • Painting, 1929