2017 iOS Custom Summer Wallpapers

These wallpapers are created on the iPhone 6s by using Apple iOS logical resolutions associated for the iPhone models specified for iPhones 6 and 7 variants. Each wallpaper can be pinched in-or-out, move and scale (i.e. height and width) to suit the user's display preference for the iPhone model.

As always with prospective wallpapers, the user should test the selected image of choice to ensure it is acceptable prior to saving it. Otherwise, hit the cancel button.

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2017 Summer Wallpapers
for all models of the
iPhones 6 and 7 Variants

Hail, Dearest Few!

Memorial Day
Louise Imogen Guiney
1909

O day of roses and regret,
Kissing the old graves of our own!
Not to the slain love's lovely debt
Alone.

But jealous hearts that live and ache,
Remember; and while drums are mute,
Beneath your banners' bright outbreak,
Salute:

And say for us to lessening ranks
That keep the memory and the pride,
On whose thinned hair our tears and thanks
Abide,

Who from their saved Republic pass,
Glad with the Prince of Peace to dwell:
Hail, dearest few! and soon, alas,
Farewell.

A Passion for Alfa Romeo Giulia Starts with Callas

Your passion for an Alfa Romeo Giulia
starts by knowing Callas singing
Bellini's Casta Diva
in the car ad.

Tab 1 Feature:

21 May 2017

Maria Callas, soprano (1961)
"Casta Diva"
(Bellini, Opera "Norma", Act I)

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Tab 2 Feature (now playing):

21 May 2017
You might also like Gallway's rendition of this Bellini piece.

James Gallway, flute (2004)
"Casta Diva"
(Bellini, Opera "Norma", Act I)



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Drawn After You, You Pattern of All Those

Votre âme est un paysage choisi

Arthur Fiedler, conducting
The Boston Pops Orchestra (1958)
- Moonglow and the Theme from 'Picnic'
(Gerorge Duning)

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Clair de la Lune
Paul Verlaine (1869)

Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune,
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

Bolzoni & Paramor Birthdays

Tab 1 Feature:

15 May 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Giovanni Bolzoni
Italian late classical era composer and violinist
(15 May 1841 - 21 February 1919)

Arthur Fiedler, conducting

The Boston Pops Orchestra (1958)
"Minuet for Strings and Orchestra" 3'44"
(Bolzoni)

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15 May 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Norrie Paramor
British musician, conductor, and etc.
(15 May 1914 - 9 September 1979)

Norrie Paramor, conducting

The Midland Radio Orchestra (1979)
"Petite Fleur" 3'18"
(Bechet)


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And She My Loadstar While I Go and Come

Sonnets Are Full of Love, and This My Tome
by Christina Rossetti

Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
Has many sonnets: so here now shall be
One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me
To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home,
To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome;
Whose service is my special dignity,
And she my loadstar while I go and come
And so because you love me, and because
I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath
Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name:
In you not fourscore years can dim the flame
Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws
Of time and change and mortal life and death.

2017 Custom Mother's Day iPhone Wallpapers

These wallpapers are created on the iPhone 6s by using Apple iOS logical resolutions associated for the iPhone models specified below. Each wallpaper can be pinched in-or-out, move and scale (i.e. height and width) to suit the user's display preference.

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Mother's Day 2017 Wallpapers
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A Centennial Birthday of Note

Herman Clebanoff
American-born concertmaster,
arranger, and conductor
(2 May 1917 - 13 January 2004)
The Clebanoff Strings (1978)
- "You Belong to My Heart"
(Solamente una vez)
(Lara)

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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth

It Is Not Always May

The sun is bright,—the air is clear,
The darting swallows soar and sing,
And from the stately elms I hear
The bluebird prophesying spring.

So blue yon winding river flows,
It seems an outlet from the sky,
Where waiting till the west-wind blows,
The freighted clouds at anchor lie.

All things are new,—the buds, the leaves,
That gild the elm-tree’s nodding crest,
And even the nest beneath the eaves;—
There are no birds in last year’s nest!

All things rejoice in youth and love,
The fulness of their first delight!
And learn from the soft heavens above
The melting tenderness of night.

Maiden, that read’st this simple rhyme,
Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay;
Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime,
For O, it is not always May!

Enjoy the spring of Love and Youth,
To some good angel leave the rest;
For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
There are no birds in last year’s nest.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow