Grainger Museum

Ella Grainger

The Human Heart

Undated

Drawn with china paints on glazed tile surface and re-fired

6" x 6"

Grainger Museum Collection

Text of Poem

The human heart
is the clock of life
so every heart beat is certainly
each one a part of eternity

My heart it beats
with a fearsome thrill -
lest for love of you
it might stand still

Ella Grainger (1889-1979)