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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French Rococo painter, was born #OTD 1732 and painted this in 1767, the year Mary Cole was born < #art #AncienRegime
We come flocking,
through the gates,
the press of us,
straggling,
swarming,
forming
the configurations of
some transcendental dance,
wired for celebration,
the waters of Babylon
long forgotten,
and the weeping, too...
Who Can This Mortal Be? https://t.co/RANHUdXZqL #PalmSunday
'Oh, do not give me sunrise
and day beguiled
with ripening smiles, delivered safe
dawning of dismissal
from a brighter sphere
shrunk to oblivion
in the womb of night
the sea's bloodbath gilded with promise...' https://t.co/bbFjwU7Rtp < #poem #poetrylovers #sunrise #sunset
Lovers And Thespians https://t.co/zv0pDcVlER 'Miss Harriette Wilson languished in the bow window of Lord Craven’s house on Marine Parade, Brighton, and pondered a listless tide teasing the amber shingle...' #WorldTheatreDay #GeorgianTheatre #histfic #biogrpahical #19thC
'There she goes again, they say,
stirring the dust,
her sandals treading air
as if she were about to break into some
mystic dance, the steps ordained.
There she goes to the spring,
bearing an empty vessel...' https://t.co/yYsYYfJc0O
#Annunciation #BVM #OTD #LadyDay #poem
'In an age before this, and the one before that, when time was an infant and dawn dews were diamonds, there lived a worthy knight who performed many deeds of valour to keep marauders from raiding the shores of his homeland...'
https://t.co/lzwsc8ObRk < #FairyTaleTuesday
“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable." William Wordsworth
#Art John Emes, The Lake, Hawkstone Park, Shropshire, 1790. (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)
Born March 13th, 1825, Hans Gude, Norwegian-German landscape painter, 'a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism'. https://t.co/YFB5pee92a < Includes #poem
Not By The Wayside https://t.co/EcfDzR9AqW
The Mustard Seed, a children's play about Mary Jones and her Bible. #childrensbook #Wales #18thcentury < #HappyStDavidsDay