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'...I only know that as he passes,
the very stones are singing
and my soul shivers in
the lacustrine depths
of his tender eye.
This Man is something else.' https://t.co/visnCWTqEe < #HolyWeek #poetry #poem
Grinling Gibbons, 'the Michelangelo of wood carving', was born on April 4th, 1648 in #Rotterdam < https://t.co/ibDxucAzdB
Died #OTD 1649, John Winthrop, #English Puritan lawyer and a founder of the #MassachusettsBayColony
Priceless https://t.co/pxBvDbNtia
'...In such circumstances, the striving for commonwealth was not a design but an instinct for survival...'
'Thank God I didn’t know that Fitz was merrily engaged in endorsing his reputation as a philanderer. In Lady Spencer’s circle it was reported he’d run off with the Countess of Antrim, a troubled Irish beauty...' https://t.co/wCGBTCFCYk #histfic #biographical
"Where was your Ladyship married to Lord Berkeley the Second Time?"
"In the Parish of Lambeth."
"Was that Marriage avowed, or still concealed?"
"...still concealed." #BerkeleyPeerageTrial #OTD 1811
https://t.co/jc3FI0aRNs #IWD
'Westerlies
clouds shafted with gold
Atlantic
travellers without
frontiers...'
Nostalgia In Reverse https://t.co/Ucoi7wdwgy < #poem #poetrycommunity
#art Charles Vickery
“I’d like to go to Mass at St. George’s tomorrow. Shall you come?”
“And tempt God by having ashes daubed on my for’ead! I think not. I shall trust you to intercede for my soul.”
A Gilded Cage https://t.co/LckQMxU7dG < #BerkeleySeries
'With no more ado, he mounted his steed and blew her a kiss. Then, turning aside, rode off into the wind, humming the borrowed strain of Ianthe's song.' https://t.co/lzwsc8OJGS < #FairyTaleTuesday
Felix Mendelssohn, #German composer, pianist and organist, was born #OTD 1809
Lift Thine Eyes https://t.co/YFB5pedBcC > #poetry #music #Romanticism