let beauty be your end

μαλακόφρων

[shisasan]

John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 [originally published 1667]

[png-heaven]

Persian wool rugs

[viviling]

[saloandseverine]

Irving Penn, Theatre Accident, New York, 1947

[poeticallybitter]

[metamorphesque]

― Horace, The Odes of Horace

[saintacephale]

"Circe" by Beatrice Offor (1911).

[orpheuslament]

Cain, José Saramago (trans. Margaret Jull Costa)

[simena]

Domenico Fiasella (detail)

[archiveofcath]

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”

— Fanny Price, Mansfield Parki (Jane Austen)

[givemearmstopraywith]

mary magdalene raised by angels by giovanni lanfranco (1616) / heaven is here by florence + the machine (2022)

[die-rosastrasse]

King by Florence + The Machine

Art by Edmund Blair Leighton

[greeksblog]

All time ever does is pass

and all you ever do is remember.

[cansu-m]

[treasures-and-beauty]

Art Nouveau Japanese 24K; Silver Inlaid Damascene Bat and Crescent Moon Necklace

[jca-archive]

TOKYO/ÉTRANGE RÉFLEXION by Jean d’Hugues

[gjrlfront]

tales of despair