persephone's grotto

goddess of spring // queen of the underworld

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Anne of Green Gables (1979)

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The Storm (1880) by Pierre Auguste Cot

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This is actually what happens when we take our helmets off. Sad. But preventable.

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Water Lily, 1880. Martin Johnson Heade. Oil on canvas.

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"Comet Donati", colour lithograph by Philippe Benoist, from Amédée Guillemin's Le Ciel (1877).

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Olga Wisinger-Florian - Im Schilf (1902)

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Li Shang-Yin, tr. by John A. Turner, from “A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry: 121 Classical Poems,”

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“Psyche and Cupid” (late 19th c.) ◇ Attr. Elihu Vedder ☀ In Greek, psyche means both soul and butterfly

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Scarborough Tournament by Kevin Barrett on Flickr.

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Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry written c. July 1935, from Selected Diaries

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Laodamia (1878) by George William Joy (Irish, 1844 – 1925) oil on canvas, 107.3 × 153.3 cm (42.2 × 60.3 in), Portsmouth Museums

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Helen of Troy, (Detail), (c. 1867), by Frederick Sandys (British, 1829 – 1904), oil on panel, 38.4 cm (15.1 in) x 30.5 cm (12 in), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

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"From the Abyss" by Yuko Morino

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Cypris (Aphrodite) (c. 1883) by Guillaume Dubufe, (French, 1853 – 1909), signed ‘G. Dubufe fils’ (lower left), oil on canvas, 13 1/2 by 22 in. (56 by 34 cm.), Private Collection