Her chief works are El libro blanco (1907; "The White Book"), Cantos de la mañana (1910; "Morning Songs"), Los cálices vacíos (1913; "Empty Chalices"), El rosarío del Eros (1924; "Eros' Rosary"), and Obras completas (1924; "Complete Works").
Beyond fruits and flowers, other common vanitas imagery included insects, skulls, hourglasses, extinguished candles, and empty chalices.
He told me to drink its Kool Aid-like contents and then screw the emptied chalice onto my head, a Whiffenpoof tradition that gets a lot of play at Mory's, and that leaves hair matted and crusty.
He then makes the extraordinary pronouncement, When I think of religion at all, I feel as if I would like to found an order for those who cannot believe: the Confraternity of the Faithless, one might call it, where on an altar, on which no taper burned, a priest, in whose heart peace had no dwelling, might celebrate with unblessed bread and a chalice empty of wine.
Referring to the decision by the Islamic republic's first supreme leader to accept a UN-backed ceasefire after eight years of war with Iraq, the activist said of Khomeini, "When he was convinced that continuing the 'battle, battle till victory' policy was to the regime's and the people's detriment, he emptied the hemlock chalice in one gulp without trepidation or vacillation.
I walked into La Capilla del Santo Cáliz (Chapel of the Chalice) to find it empty.
Rays of sun poured through his open front door, and as he placed a pile of hosts into a chalice on top of an empty pizza box, I dug through his CD collection.
Two new books disagree on whether the hedge-fund managers' golden chalice is half-full or half-empty.
Two delicate chandeliers hang from a wood-beam ceiling and, beyond the rows of empty pews, flowers grace the altar and a fresco depicts the sun, a golden chalice and two angels against a blue sky.
