The Atelier Couture “Victorian Poetry”
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Pre-Raphaelite Dove Advent Calendar 10
Book Plate from Selected Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1907, illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
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Victorian Valentines
Every year John Barrow jr received Valentines from his young friend Gilly, an orphan. However the relationship does not seem to have been romantic. She continued to visit him until he died in 1898.
Unchanging Love
Though absence parts us for a while,
And distance rolls between,
Believe, whoever may revile,
I am still what I have been.
For to my dying day, my heart,
Through every fate will be,
If doom'd till then to mourn apart,
Unchanging still to thee
"I do believe in this", Barrow wrote.
True Affection
Emblem fair to you I send,
Token of affection true,
Showing where my feelings tend,
Like the magnet unto you
Worlds may pass away and perish,
Every feeling die away,
But the constant love I cherish,
Never, never shall decay
Barrow noted: "No variations of the magnet, I trust?"
[Photos by me of private journals of John Barrow, Weston Library, University of Oxford]
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July, from The Procession of Months (c.1889). All the poems were written by fifteen-year-old Beatrice Crane and illustrated by her acclaimed artist father, Walter Crane.
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[text ID: "By the reedy riverside
Where swans do take their rest,
July, with languid steps,
Comes forth so richly drest.
For all the sumer tints
Are woven in her dress;
A girdle spun with gold
Her dainty waist doth press.
Her hair, of auburn gold,
Is braided up with flowers,
Her eyes so clear and blue
Do speak of happy house.
She brings with her tall lilies,
Both orange & pure white;
And many other flowers
To give our hearts delight.
But while the water lilies
Are opening bright & fair,
She slowly, softly goes
In the still summer air"]
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We as human beings are fickle-minded creatures and have had many dreams and ambitions growing up. We all have been subjected to similar circumstances when one day we wanted to be a doctor and the next, a singer. But one can only know what is meant for them when even within those ever-changing interests, something stays consistent.
Lets all strive to find that consistency and chase them.
- grenadae
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The Atelier Couture “Victorian Poetry”
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“We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?”
- Fragment from 'Goblin Market', Christina Rossetti (1862)
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Pre-Raphaelite Dove Advent Calendar 11
The Princess from Selected Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1907, illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
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