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"Three coffins, in which lay three beautiful maidens, glided from the thickest part of the forest across the lake. The fire-flies flew lightly over them, like little floating torches." (Andersen "Snow Queen")

🎨 Maximilian Pirner (1888)

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2022-04-02

Illustration of The Land of Counterpane (poem by Robert Louis Stevenson) by Jessie Willcox Smith

"I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane."

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2022-04-02

"Light isn't always good neither shadows are always evil. Light often plays with human eyes and pranks shadows." ~ Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen.

[Art by Stanley "Artgerm" Lau]

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2022-04-02

'But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.'

Dear bookworms, Saturday we're celebrating Hans Christian Andersen's birthday with the theme Fairytales.📚🐛

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2022-03-31

'She left the rosy morn,
She left the fields of corn,
For twilight cold and lorn
And water springs.'
-Christina Rossetti

🎨Florence Harrison

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2022-03-26

"It has been found again! What? Eternity.
It is the sea mingled with the sun..."
(Arthur Rimbaud)

🎨 Victor Karlovich Shtemberg "Sirens by the Sea" (c 1900)

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2022-03-26

“Spring drew on ... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.” ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847).

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2022-03-19

'Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.'
- Virginia Woolf

Good morning bookworms! is with you for the next couple of hours and bids you welcome to a spring themed 📚🌼

🎨Sir John Lavery

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2022-03-19

"The spring mists rise round the isles,
And the cranes cry in a plaintive tone,
Then I think of my far-off home--
Sorely do I grieve...
I shake the war-arrows I carry
Till they rattle in my ears."
Otamo Yakamochi (755 AD)

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2022-03-19

‘Earth laughs in flowers.’

Ralph Waldo Emerson in Hamatreya.
🖼Alpine Flowers, Artist unknown, 1867.

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2022-03-06

“We were amongst the rhododendrons. There was something bewildering, even shocking, about the suddenness of their discovery... They startled me with their crimson faces... showing no leaf, no twig, nothing but the slaughterous red...” Daphne du Maurier, “Rebecca”

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2022-03-05


The violet in her greenwood bower,
Where birchen boughs with hazel mingle,
May boast itself the fairest flower
In glen, or copse, or forest dingle.
Though fair her gems of azure hue,
Beneath the dew-drop’s weight reclining. –Sir Walter Scott, The Violet.

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2022-03-05


Roses & lilies & lilies & roses again,
Tangle of leaves & white magic of blossoming trees,
Sunlight that lay where, last moment, your footstep had lain--
Was not the garden enchanted that proffered me these?-Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Garden

🎨Margaret Tarrant

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2022-03-05

'Leander strived; the waves about him wound,
And pull'd him to the bottom, where the ground
Was strewed with pearl, and in low coral groves
Sweet-singing mermaids sported with their loves ...'
Christopher Marlowe. https://t.co/axebFhVs7r

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2022-02-26

The Comet Book (1587), details, “16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously (or maybe it was a woman who endured erasure) in Flanders”. Originally named in german Kometenbuch.

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2022-02-26

“The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground. They are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.”

— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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2022-02-13

Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ 'War of the Worlds': Discover the Art of Henrique Alvim Corrêa https://t.co/YESbAAMpG3 via

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2022-02-12

"That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner party is the running short - not of meat, nor drink, but conversation."

"In an English dinner-party, I remarked "I have never known small-talk run short"

from lesser known: Sylvie & Bruno

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2022-02-12

“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.” (Sheridan Le Fanu)

🎨 Richard Riemerschmid "Cloud Ghosts" (1897)

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2022-02-12

"With new greene, and maketh small flours
To springen here and there in field and in mede
So very good and wholsome be the shoures
That it renueth that was old and deede."

The Floure and the Leafe, ca 1490, author unknown
🌸🌿

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2022-02-06