Tag: 19th century

• Two Quotes from The Portrait of a Lady: Choose

  

  📖 2) She fixed her eyes upon him, and there was something in their character that reminded him of large, polished buttons; he seemed to see the reflection of surrounding objects upon the pupil. The expression of a button is not usually deemed human, but there was something in Miss Stackpole’s gaze that made him, […]

  08/19/2022 2:32 pm

  wisdom, philosophy, 19th century, novels, english literature, inspiring, henry james

• From Songs for Strangers and Pilgrims, Sealed, Signed, Love, Christina Rossetti

  

  by Christina Rossetti … This poem may have been written sadly, but I read it warmly…I read it as my love has both the key and my heart kept safely in heaven, in her own, brings a little heaven in when she comes in; the key recalls to me with whom and how I share […]

  07/15/2022 9:56 am

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• A Portrait of Peeko, Reading The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James as Much as I Want To

  

  “What would you like to say to your fans?” I said to Peeko, and snapped this photo.😊🐱^ * The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is so funny. I’d found myself more irritable overall though when I was following strictly the schedule for the Goodreads group, Old Books, New Readers, and I thought I […]

  07/12/2022 7:27 pm

  19th century, art, creative process, english literature, literary salon we keep, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, novels, peeko, poets, reading, wellness, writing process

• Rose Honey in Poetry by Christina Rossetti

  A city plum is not a plum;A dumb-bell is no bell, though dumb;A party rat is not a rat;A sailor’s cat is not a cat;A soldier’s frog is not a frog;A captain’s log is not a log. * A rose has thorns as well as honey,I’ll not have her for love or money;An iris grows so straight […]

  07/12/2022 2:32 pm

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• Memorable Quotes from The Portrait of a Lady

  

  (My cat Peeko napping with the lounge-clothing I’d laid out ready to put on after my bath that day.) I am reading The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James with a Goodreads book group. It’s great so far, especially the dialogue; I’d like to share a couple of quotes that stood out to […]

  07/09/2022 2:31 pm

  19th century, art, benevolence, classics, creative process, english literature, henry james, literary salon we keep, medieval era, novels, peeko, wellness

• Books and Art: Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi, Kahlil Gibran Scare, and My Creative Plan for the Day

  

  I do this too…(I liked finding this illustrated at The Boston Fine Arts Museum, my own photo of this artwork I saw there)…with my silver aluminum water canteen and poetry book, and a rock to sit on. Friday, May 27th, 2022 Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi I think I’d really confused and worked […]

  05/28/2022 7:24 am

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• Not My Door, But I Got My Classic and My Bright Bookmark

  

  I finished reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte (1853) last night, felt I could remain within its mists even after the book ended, a ponderous read that I feel safe within… I took these photos on the spot yesterday early afternoon walking around after reading, was still in the middle of Villette. 📷 … Not My […]

  05/21/2022 8:30 am

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• A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show

  

  I found this bookmark in a library book I’d taken out and read yesterday, a slim blue copy of literary insight with a little biography of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. From that book, these lines of a poem by Edna I’d not heard of spoke to me most poignantly: The stone the angel rolled […]

  05/17/2022 7:57 pm

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• Many a Thing…(A Trip to the Antiques Shop)

  

  Tues. Apr. 12, 2022 photo from Tues., Apr. 5th—“Pants by Peeko 🐱,” a perfectly good hemming this time, Peeko helping on his own when I got the pants ready (just ‘loungewear’, shown in previous post.) He was proud of both the task and his own joke: sitting like this holding the pants in place and […]

  04/15/2022 8:56 am

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• Birthdays, Birthdays!, A Literary Salon Day, and ‘The Marching In’

  

  I awoke to the very lightest touch of blush in the dawn sky; it was seen only by looking more closely. It is Tuesday night and in recent weeks there has been lots of fun with paintings or pictures, a free sketch one night in my blank sketchbook from imagination, and painting from my imagination […]

  03/01/2022 8:33 pm

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• Author and Poet, May Ziadeh’s Birthday

  

  Happy birthday, Mai! 😊💕136 never looked so good! (…and that is earth years.) 😊🎊 b. Feb. 11, 1886 in Nazareth, lived in Egypt and Lebanon, d. Oct. 17, 1941 in Cairo. May Elias Ziadeh was a writer and editor, author of poetry, biographies and fiction, knew nine languages, was a speaker, translator, and tutor, and […]

  02/11/2022 4:27 pm

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• I Adore…

  

  Most recent poet found with random book taken off shelf, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop fit in perfectly with the ‘Sagittarian Invasion’ artists on the blog recently told of…following Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (same sign: Austen turned 246 earth yrs on Dec. 16; Waldrop turned 89 on Dec. 11) what I thought… […]

  12/31/2021 9:47 pm

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• Off I Go, Fare Thee Well!

  …I handmade the hair tie myself from a headband, with better success. * 😊🧚‍♀️💌✋💕 * Previously: A Day of Art Pleasantries

  12/17/2021 8:27 pm

  18th century, 19th century, boston, english literature, memoir, my photography, poets, self portraits

• Blushing Mornings, Angels, A 246th Yr Birthday Woman, and More

  

  Tuesday and Wednesday mornings…back to back blush. Did you guess right? Would I choose a new book or one to reread? I chose Northanger Abbey, a novel to reread from many years ago, and I don’t remember the story, but it is delightful, and I’ll read more of it today. Jane Austen completed it in […]

  12/16/2021 5:52 pm

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• Goodbye, Pride and Prejudice

  But not goodbye, dear Jane Austen. I have more books available for me to read now and the fact that these pages were still coming loose as I was reading, coverless and curly binding disintegrating, no matter how tenderly I turned the pages, made actually putting a bookmark in it impossible. I don’t need to […]

  11/19/2021 2:46 pm

  19th century, art, books, creative process, england, english literature, gratitude, jane austen, letters, memoir, memoir stories, novels, philosophy, poetic, reading, wellness

• Pride and Prejudice… Pages Still Setting Free in my Hands

  

  …Checks calendar for today’s date…✔️😅 Time ?🕰☀️⏳…Considers guest: Nah😉 In bedroom library corner, plenty of sky to see through these clean windows by me worthy of highest praise, tea cup from which I’ve just drank, just now empty, now too, pins in place the front pages that may come undone in my hands unexpectedly, ones […]

  11/18/2021 1:11 pm

  19th century, angels, art, boston, creative process, england, home, jane austen, memoir, memoir stories, morning, my photography, nature, novels, philosophy, poetic, reading, sky, spirituality, sun, tea

• My Fun Critique of The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani, First Novel in English by An Arab-American Author

  

  November 2021 *~ It is Sunday and I’d received the news yesterday that Britney Spears is free! 🎉🥳🎉from her conservatorship!! I was so happy to see this! and I’ve also been recently doing well myself. I’d been in recent months following Britney’s story and IG posts as a contemporary one similar to the poet May […]

  11/14/2021 10:47 am

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• Soothing

  

  Evening blush tonight As for the previous post, it felt to me as if someone was saying, “Lights out…Time for rest now, Baby.” And it was. A laugh out loud line of Shakespeare’s (cited in Selected Poems by Lord Byron): “I’d rather be a kitten, and cry, mew! Than one of these same meter ballad-mongers” […]

  10/19/2021 8:57 pm

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• Poet Byron with The Moon

  

  Byron might like his book and the moon together… My reflective review apart from my moonlit window: These are poems to soak up and drink in, beautifully somber and purely light, with repeating motifs in the “Fragment” poems and “Stanzas For Music” poems, perhaps going along nicely with French Classical composer Gabriel Fauré’s piece “Romances […]

  10/18/2021 8:51 pm

  19th century, book reflection, book review, dreams, lord byron, memoir, memoir stories, moon, my dreams, my photography, poets

• Two Dreams I Fell Into, and Then Out, and Another

  

  October 15, ’21 …And apparently this post appeared in the night and then had fallen right off the blog by the morning… … Tuesday afternoon. Memorable it was to breathe into the sweet center of that flower on my way to continue the rest of my walk today… Maybe I will learn what kind of […]

  10/15/2021 1:09 am

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• Looking into the Forest with a Teacup and Saucer, and Reading Lord Byron Beneath a Shady Pine Tree

  

  still taking accidental photos☺️😊 I like to read one book at a time if it’s the type of book that feels best that way, and so I set aside the novel I’d paired with my previous great poetry read, to begin the two books again, separately, afterwards. I am reading Selected Poems by Lord Byron […]

  10/14/2021 6:27 pm

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• ‘Step Within That Dream,’ Thank You, Any Dream Will Do

  

  Post title is my own created dialogue, my part in it is the reply even if I wrote it all 🤔💗 All the months prior to today and yet rushing into my focus by today, I realize, There have been things spoken to people that should’ve been spoken to God or a heavenly being first, […]

  09/24/2021 8:42 pm

  19th century, 20th century, dreams, library, mary shelley, memoir, memoir stories, my dreams, neil gaiman, novels, philosophy, poetic, reading, spirituality, yoga

• Unfolding The Way With Sky Blushes, A Falling Book, And A Suddenly Seen Keurig Machine

  

  The morning sky today easily put some blush upon my face too. 😊🙏 Windows I’d just cleaned yesterday on both sides, including the glass door, and yes, my plants are looking more alive again, was excited to wake up today and see what the view would be through such clear glass… And there was another […]

  09/22/2021 7:12 pm

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• A Sweet, Refreshing Beginning…

  

  The literary salon begins with some blush… Yesterday afternoon, ‘Rumi’ black tea in a glass with a splash of almond milk. Autumn begins tomorrow…🍂😊 I send you my morning wishes and return to the salon with a cup of green tea and glimpsing the sky between sips as its colors lighten and merge… * Today […]

  09/21/2021 8:10 am

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• My Poems, A Budding Playlist, and a Very Practical Thing

  The eighteen poems I’d written since April I’ve found complete as of last night and I can continue submitting to magazines all of them now as I write more for my next book. There was a storm last night, no thunder, a little wind and rain, and I read my last-to complete-poem with the note […]

  07/28/2021 8:03 pm

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