Emily Dickinson : Success

I try to make illustrations for some poems of Emily Dickinson,

maybe the image can bring to the lecture and to some actuality of the digital painting,

this is a modest try and beginning ....

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear.

                             by Emily Dickinson