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Aschermittwoch’ (Ash Wednesday) by Carl Olof Petersen from Art and Literature Magazine ‘Jugend’, 1919

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Frederick Sandys (1829-1904) "Mary Magdalene" (c. 1859) Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite Located in the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, United States

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"Out of my own great woe I make my little songs" (Heinrich Heine)

Art by Ivar Arosenius (1907)

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Illustration from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Ronald Balfour (1920)

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‘Spring’ by Tuesday Riddell

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"The mother, with all her robes and with her body, protected her, and cried out, "Leave me just one, the youngest! I only ask for one, the youngest of all!" While she prayed, she, for whom she prayed, was dead. Childless, she sat among the bodies of her sons, her daughters, and her husband, frozen in grief.

The breeze stirs not a hair, the colour of her cheeks is bloodless, and her eyes are fixed motionless in her sad face: nothing in that likeness is alive. Inwardly her tongue is frozen to the solid roof of her mouth, and her veins cease their power to throb. Her neck cannot bend, nor her arms recall their movement, nor her feet lead her anywhere. Inside, her body is stone. Yet she weeps, and, enclosed in a powerful whirlwind, she is snatched away to her own country: there, set on a mountain top, she wears away, and even now tears flow from the marble." (Ovid)

Art by Artuš Scheiner "Niobe transformed into the Weeping Rock" (c 1920)

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“Shimmer” by Jeszika Le Vye.

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© Nona Limmen {via Instagram}

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"So when at last the Angel of the drink Of Darkness finds you by the river-brink, And, proffering his Cup, invites your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff it—do not shrink." (Omar Khayyam)

Art by Edmund Dulac

Persian polymath Omar Khayyam's "Rubaiyat" in the 1859 translation of Edward Fitzgerald can be cherished along with Dulac's gorgeous Illustrations below - and the influence on the European fin de siècle is almost tangible...

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From ‘La Fontaine’ s Fables’, illustration by Gustave Dore, 1868

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Prince Darling transformed into the monster. Henry Justice Ford from Prince Darling and Other Stories by Andrew Lang, New York: 1930.

Source: Internet Archive.

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"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colours, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Art by Otto Marseus van Schrieck

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Max Frey - The Light Giver (1934)

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“Spirit of Spring, Whose strange instinctive art Makes the bird sing…” —Richard Le Gallienne (1893)

Hello Spring ♥

This my annual illustration welcoming the light of spring during this year’s Equinox. The last several months have been rather dark in more than one way and I'm looking forward to brighter days, if nothing else.

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"According to certain tales of the peasantry, a demonic creature dwells nea and on the left bank of river Saale, called the Buschgroßmutter ("Shrub Grandmother"). She has many daughters, called Moosfräuleins ("Moss ladies"), with whom she roves around the country at certain times and upon certain holy nights. It is not good to meet her, for she has wild, staring eyes and crazy, unkempt hair." (Ludwig Bechstein)

Art by Edgar Bundy (1896)

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