Mariana  1851

When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851 this picture was accompanied by the following lines from Tennyson's Mariana (1830): [br] [i]She only said, 'My life is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!'[/i] Tennyson's poem was inspired by the character of Mariana in Shakespeare's Measure for Measur...