do you think there is grief born in god's heart?

[loveswitchery]

We said little more to each other than our names; I had never heard a more beautiful love poem.

Christa Wolf, from Cassandra, tr. Jan van Heurck

[kino-ani]

Ladies of the Big House (1931) Dir. Marion Gering

[c3rvida3]

I just learned that a lot of vintage perfumes and fragrances were intentionally created to blend well with the ever-present smell of cigarettes, and in specific a lot of iconic ones that are super musky and floral and civet-heavy were intended to compliment the smell of fur coats or even "refresh" that new fur coat smell, which is one of the reasons (besides just shifting preferences and trends) that a lot of them smell really, really bad to modern noses.

I bet there's some stunning genius diva out there right now who meticulously coordinates her Victoria's Secret body mists with her vape flavors.

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1932

unknown maker

The National Museum of Norway

[studyincontrasts]

John Duncan - Study for Joan of Arc and the Scots Guards- via 

Study for Jehanne d’Arc et sa Garde Ecossaise - Pencil Drawing

[letterful]

btw archive dot org is SUCH a treasury when it comes to out-of-print poetry anthologies… i am having the time of my life, truly ❣️

[letterful]

some of my bookmarks:

against forgetting: twentieth-century poetry of witness,

postwar polish poetry (edited by czesław miłosz!),

poems for the millennium: the university of california book of modern & postmodern poetry vol 1 + vol 2,

essential pleasures: a new anthology of poems to read aloud,

poems that make grown women cry + poems that make grown men cry,

the oxford book of short poems,

a book of women poets from antiquity to now,

first loves: poets introduce the essential poems that capitivated and inspired them (so many literary greats!),

the poets’ grimm: 20th century poems from grimm fairy tales,

disenchantments: an anthology of modern fairy tale poetry,

arthur, the greatest king: an anthology of modern arthurian poems,

chapters into verse: poetry in english inspired by the bible,

killer verse: poems of murder and mayhem,

poetry in medicine: an anthology of poems about doctors, patients, illness, and healing,

a mind apart: poems of melancholy, madness, and addiction,

friendship poems + marriage poems + motherhood poems + fatherhood poems,

billy collins’ poetry 180 + 180 more,

good poems + good poems for hard times

the penguin book of… modern african poetry + irish poetry + japanese verse + hebrew verse + love poetry + sick verse (sic!) 

[loveswitchery]

Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb. I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body

[loveswitchery]

A strange young thing, skilfully disguised by Nature as a woman!

Violet Trefusis, from Broderie Anglaise

[loveswitchery]

As for myself, I am splintered by great waves. I am coloured glass from a church window long shattered. I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Jeanette Winterson, from Lighthousekeeping

[s-1666]

Dancer Charlotte Greenwood (1890-1977) reading while demonstrating her flexibility at Metro-Goldwin-Mayer studios in 1928.

[die-rosastrasse]

The Lady's Bedroom at Malahide Castle

Dublin, Ireland VI 2023

[flowerytale]

"Blooming June" or "Flowers of Hypnos", from Andrea Zanatelli’s embroidery series

[kuutamosonaatti]

ring, 1900-1905

silver, rose quartz

[dozydawn]

Vintage iris charms and pendants.

[huariqueje]

The Late Riser   -    Robert Schiff ,  before 1935.

Austrian , 1869 - 1935

oil on canvas

[fordarkmornings]

William Russell Flint (Scottish, 1880-1969)

The Clerk’s Tale, from The Canterbury Tales, 1913

[va-lentine]

Carl Linnaeus - Floral clock, 'Philosophia botanica', 1751