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@BrodenLouise Arthur Rackham "Iris There with humid Bow" for Milton's "Comus" (1921)

@AmlethMachina Can't completely agree... I'm actually a Dulac man... but Clarke's are certainly the most fanciful.

"Lighting one candle
from another -
Winter night" (Buson)

🎨 Tsuchiya Koitsu "Snow at Miyajima" (1937)

#GothicChill

"Do you hear the muffled storm
Sorrowing in brotherhood?
Do you hear the hungry worm
Ticking in the coffin wood?"

Danish national poet Adam Oehlenschläger died #OTD 1850

🎨 Johan Christian Dahl (1840)

"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream
within a dream."

Edgar Allan #Poe was born #OTD 1809 in Boston

🎨 Gustave Doré (1884)

#WyrdWednesday

"Hard is the task, and rare," the queen rejoin'd,
Impending destinies in dreams to find" (Odyssey)

According to Homer, false prophetic dreams come to the sleeper through an ivory portal while true ones appear from one made of horn

🎨 J.A. Fitzgerald (1857)

#mythologymonday

"Fafner! Fafner! Thou dragon, wake!" (Wagner)

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1911)

#AppreciateADragonDay

“Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.” (Robert Frost)

“. . . no Art, nor any Leach's Might . . .
Can remedy such hurts; such hurts are hellish Pain.” (The Faerie Queene)

Edmund Spenser died #OTD 1599 in London

🎨 Frank C. Papé (1913)

@BrodenLouise Maxfield Parrish “Atlas” (1910)