{weekend words}

And there's a hall in Bloomsbury

No more I dare to tread,

For all the stone men shout at me

And swear they are not dead;

And once I touched a broken girl

And knew that marble bled.

from James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915), 'Oak and Olive' in The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913).

'Iris' from the Parthenon pediment (447-432 BC). 

Source: British Museum.