The Ides Of March —Edward Poynter

finally reached the end of the world

#photography #cats

Hypnos, the Greek personification of sleep. #Photography by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1915) #art #sculpture

‘Un chat noir s'avance à pas feutrés dans la neige dans la cour de la rue Daguerre.’ #Photography by Agnès Varda (c. 1952), 14e arrondissement, #Paris

Romantic Failures in Arctic Exploration: Narratives of Conquest and Masculinity niche-canada.org/2023/10/04/r...

with nowhere else to be

in this quiet

Row of trees in backlight #Photography #monochrome #ClassicMono #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhite #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

And under the roots of the Sensitive Plant The moles and the dormice died for want: The birds dropped stiff from the frozen air And were caught in the branches naked and bare. – P. B. Shelley, 'The Sensitive Plant' 1820 #BookWormSat #illustration by Charles Robinson 1911

“The fountains are dry and the roses over. Incense of death. Your day approaches. The pears fatten like little buddhas. A blue mist is dragging the lake.” ✍️ Sylvia Plath, The Manor Garden 🖼️ Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Faded Roses #BookWormSat #poetry #gardens

'Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone' -Lord Tennyson 🎨Valentine Cameron Prinsep #BookWormSat

" Are you happy, Jane ?

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. William Blake

The Forest by Prince Eugen, 1892 Oil on canvas 150 cm x 100,5 cm Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Outside immersed in your echo.

Blake’s I went to the garden of love, with his own illustration, from Songs of Experience, 1794. #BookWormSat

LILITH 1895 #Vampire novella by George MacDonald who inspired Tolkien & the Inklings. Mr Vane ventures through a mirror into another world where he encounters the uncanny desires of #vampire Lilith and the satantic shadow that manipulates her. #Booksky

But none ever trembled and panted with bliss In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, Like a doe in the noontide with love’s sweet want, As the companionless Sensitive Plant. – P. B. Shelley, 'The Sensitive Plant' 1820 #BookWormSat #illustration by Charles Robinson 1911

As a fun aside, the tree in his photo is the first living thing every photographed, and it’s still there

The moonlight fell like pity o'er the walls And broken arches, which the conqueror, Time Had rode unto destruction; – Letitia E. Landon, 'Holyrood' 1825, inspired by Daguerre's diorama #poetry #booksky #gothic #art The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel by Louis Daguerre

‘Tracks in the snow, moonlight.’ #Painting by Gustaf Fjaestad (1899) #art

Cold Without Samuel Read 1892 #art #winter

Gang der Mönche zum Bergkloster Athos (The Monks of Mount Athos Walking to Dawn Prayers) Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844-1905) #art #painting #gothic

Hubert Sattler (1817-1904) Austrian painter. Title: "Storm on the North Sea." Date of artwork 1836. Collection: Salzburg Museum. Location: Salzburg, Austria. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Lord Tennyson's 1842 Prophecy: Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and the rained a ghastly dew From the nation’s airy navies grappling in the central blue #wyrdwednesday

Baychimo was a steel-hulled cargo steamer owned by the Hudson Bay Company. In 1931, the ship was abandoned after becoming trapped in pack ice and over the next few decades, was reported "sailing" on the Beaufort Sea. Last sighting in 1969. Is k/as "The Ghost Ship of the Arctic." #LegendaryWednesday

"Commencing Monday, August 18th. Scientific Palmistry And Physiognomy. "Satanella," Expert Character Delineator, Late 75, New Bond Street. Short Season Only. Holds Receptions Daily At 40, Devonshire Road (Next to Post Office)." #Bexhill Chronicle 6.9.1902. #WyrdWednesday #Sussex #History #1900s

Scenes of Divination, Including Haruspication, Pyromancy and Necromancy, by Hans Burgkmair (circa early 17th Century) #WyrdWednesday

Tarkovsky: The Image As Remembrance

Vinter, Solnedgång (Winter, Sunset) Victor Forssell ca. 1877 #art #painting #snow

Just reading a book that claims that early Gothic villains 'while powerful and commanding, were never appealing or seductive.' I feel like this severely underestimates how freaky both Goths and romance readers are.

Broken, and lost in the mist. #ThickTrunkTuesday #SensoryArt #broken #treeclub #abstractia #EastCoastKin

Birch trees and witches' broom growths. A misty day in the woods. #treeclub #trees #ThickTrunkTuesday #photography

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) "The Monk by The Sea", ca. 1808-1810, Oil on canvas #painting #art #oilpainting #romantism #drawing #illustration #CasparDavidFriedrich #CasparFriedrich

‘Lynx preparing to spring.’ #Photography from ‘The wonders of wildlife’ by Franz Adam Roedelberger & Vera Groschoff (1963).

#StAgnesEve And they are gone: ay, ages long ago These lovers fled away into the storm… The Eve of St Agnes Keats 1819 🖼️ Holman Hunt 1848

They glide, like phantoms, into the wide hall; Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they glide; … And they are gone: ay, ages long ago These lovers fled away into the storm. John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1819 #booksky #poetry #romanticism

Goodnight. Winter night in Ukraine, Józef Chełmoński, 1877.

"Not all our power is gone—not all our fame— Not all the magic of our high renown— Not all the wonder that encircles us— Not all the mysteries that in us lie— Not all the memories that hang upon And cling around about us like a garment, Clothing us in a robe of more than glory." 💙📚 Poe 1833

"Where the daylight peeps thro' like the glint of the Moon, And the branches are rustling a murmurous rune, The Owl's sit in council, like prophets of Fate, Discussing grave questions of Kingdom & State" Louis Wain (1895) #OwlishMonday

“It was in the blue room where stood the prince, with a group of pale courtiers by his side.” (Edgar Allan Poe, #botd 1809) 🎨 Harry Clarke “Masque of the Red Death” #bluemonday

Happy Birthday, E. A. Poe #BOTD 1809! To quote from the 1833 'The Coliseum', I kneel, an altered and an humble man, Among thy shadows, and so drink within My very soul thy grandeur, gloom, and glory. Vastness and Age, and Memories of Eld! Silence and Desolation, and dim Night! #booksky #gothic

'The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain, And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.' -Emily Brontë 🎨Júlia Sardà #BookWormSat

Le Melodrama 1860 Honore Daumier (French, 1808-1875) Oil on Canvas 97.5 x 90.4 cms. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

By John MacWhirter (Scottish 1839-1911) " A River Landscape with Castle Beyond " #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Murgrönan can be considered Finland's first novel, and was published by a woman, Wilhelmina Carstens (1808-1888), albeit anonymously. The profits from the sale of the publication were announced to be used to build a poorhouse in Porvoo. #BookWornSat 🧵