#rossetti

[pistachioshiba]

Gray floor and large industrial boy porcelain tiles in the kids' room Blue walls in a children's room idea

Revisiting Sanctuaries

[art-and-some-history]

Joan of Arc (1882), Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[squishymage42]

The Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

Whenever I read literature from the Victorian era, I’m reminded a bit that the “repressed Victorian” is rather more a cultivated image than reality. I came across the title for this one from the Dolmenwood Player’s Book list of Inspirational Media. So far, this one is unique among “Appendix N” reading I’ve done by being a poem (though I suppose Beowulf in Pathfinder Appendix 3 is one as well…

[ohmygrapefruit]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti — Dantis Amore

[literaryluxxx]

There is A Budding Morrow at Midnight

Wintry boughs against a wintry sky;   Yet the sky is partly blue     And the clouds are partly bright:-- Who can tell but sap is mounting high   Out of sight, Ready to burst through?

Winter is the mother-nurse of Spring,   Lovely for her daughter's sake,     Not unlovely for her own : For a future buds in everything;   Grown, or blown, Or about to break.

~ Christina Rossetti

As we enter the new year, with winter very much casting its breath over Europe, I thought I would share this poem by Christina Rossetti. Read now, it becomes a meditation on patience, asking us to trust what is growing even when we cannot yet see it. I love the inspiration she takes from the Pre-Raphaelite movement, especially her use of nature, symbolism, and the belief that beauty lives in careful attention to the world around us.

[matryoshka2001]

[nudeartpluspoetry]

A playlist of 22 Victorian poems by various poets, most of the poems short, read aloud with brief videos.

[aura-eden]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Vision of Fiammetta (1878) and Pandora (1871)