fantome de dentelle noire

thewitchkingofangmarr:

Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

You died, all in a glow of roses, with flowers on your breast, with flowers on your curls.
While I stood in your fragrance, with flowers on my breast, on my head, in my hands…
— Alexander Blok, Ante Lucem: I Again Dreamt of You, c. 1898 (via con-alas-de-angeles)

feral-ballad:

May love like a tombstone close over my life.

Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems; “Confusion”

con-alas-de-angeles:

Falling leaves over your grave, and the smell of winter. Listen, the dead, listen, my dear: You are still, after all, mine.

Marina Tsvetaeva, To Pyotr Efron after his death from tuberculosis: Falling Leaves Over Your Grave

cor-ardens:

The Innocents (1961), dir. Jack Clayton

cor-ardens:

I’ve dreamed since I was
four years old

I’ve dreamed since I was
four years old

that the house is slowly on fire
that the house is slowly on fire

and I can’t get you to leave it
and I can’t get you to leave it

and I can’t leave without you
and I can’t leave without you

Source:

1. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, Jean Epstein)
2. The Fall of the House of Usher, Steven Berkoff 
3. In The Pines, Alice Notley

Leaving their garden, the roses have followed me…
I drink their brief breath, I breathe their life.
All of them are here.
— Renée Vivien, from Roses Rising; The Muse of Violets: Selected Poems (tr. by Catharine Kroger)

themacabrenbold:

image

“Vanitas/Memento Mori" in a grey lacquered wood showcase, 19th century

industrial-horror:

Reliquary Bust of a Female Saint : 17th CenturyVander Kelen-Mertens Museum: Leuven, Belgium.

centuriespast:

Death on a Canopied Throne (Design for a Title Page)

Godfried Maes (Antwerp 1649–1700 Antwerp)

Date: late 17th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

edwardian-time-machine:

►Corset Wednesday

Another lovely corset here. Too bad I couldn’t find the original link to it. :\
I’m guessing this is an early Edwardian era corset, but I could be wrong. If you know what time it’s from, please let me know. I tagged it as both Victorian & Edwardian just in case.

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