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proserpine's dream...
'Woe's me for thee, unhappy Proserpine'.
Created on 2005-12-20 19:51:52 (#9071615), last updated 2006-08-27
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Basic Info BioUnder the arch of Life, where love and death,
Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw
Beauty enthroned; and though her gaze struck awe,
I drew it in as simply as my breath.
Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath,
The sky and sea bend on thee, - which can draw,
By sea or sky or woman, to one law,
The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath.
This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise
Thy voice and hand shake still, - long known to thee
By flying hair and fluttering hem, - the beat
Following her daily of thy heart and feet,
How passionately and irretrievably,
In what fond flight, how many ways and days!
~Soul's Beauty by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"proserpine" by dante gabriel rossetti
"Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;
We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death."
~excerpt from "Hymn to Proserpine"
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
~Study for "Nymphs finding the Head of Orpheus" by john william waterhouse
No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist
Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;
Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd
By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine;
Make not your rosary of yew-berries,
Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be
Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl
A partner in your sorrow's mysteries;
For shade to shade will come too drowsily,
And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.
~excerpt from "Ode to Melancholy"
by John Keats
Steerpike and Fuschia are Tragic Love
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queensjoy
Wuthering Heights is Eternally Tragic Love
Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw
Beauty enthroned; and though her gaze struck awe,
I drew it in as simply as my breath.
Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath,
The sky and sea bend on thee, - which can draw,
By sea or sky or woman, to one law,
The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath.
This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise
Thy voice and hand shake still, - long known to thee
By flying hair and fluttering hem, - the beat
Following her daily of thy heart and feet,
How passionately and irretrievably,
In what fond flight, how many ways and days!
~Soul's Beauty by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death."
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;
Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd
By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine;
Make not your rosary of yew-berries,
Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be
Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl
A partner in your sorrow's mysteries;
For shade to shade will come too drowsily,
And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.
~excerpt from "Ode to Melancholy"
by John Keats
Steerpike and Fuschia are Tragic Love
queensjoyWuthering Heights is Eternally Tragic Love
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