Search Windsor castle, elves, within and out.

by Hugh Thomson
from The merry wives of Windsor,
by William Shakespeare, New York, 1910.

(Source: archive.org)

A 1910 theater production of Alice in Wonderland
from LIFE

~Gollum’s Song

.
Where once was light
Now darkness falls
Where once was love
Love is no more
Don’t say goodbye
Don’t say I didn’t try
.
These tears we cry
Are falling rain
For all the lies you told us
The hurt, the blame!
And we will weep to be so alone
We are lost
We can never go home.
.
So in the end
I’ll be what I will be
No loyal friend
Was ever there for me.
Now we say goodbye
We say you didn’t try.

These tears you cry
Have come too late
Take back the lies
The hurt, the blame!.

And you will weep
When you face the end alone
You are lost
You can never go home
You are lost
You can never go home

.
-Gollum’s Song by Emiliana Torrini

A boy sits amid the ruins of a London bookshop
following an air raid on October 8, 1940

Source

  
At the end of a busy day, isn't it great to be home?
I can't think of any place I'd rather be.

HAVE A VERY NICE WEEKEND!!!

by Mother Goose
Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full.
One for my master,
One for my dame,
And one for the little boy
That lives in our lane.

Source picture

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.

by Arnold Lobel

The Spectacle Seller, Adrian van Ostade
(1610-1685)

More images of spectacle peddlers
at Antique Spectacles

~Sunday Poem

Love happened at last,
And we entered God’s paradise,
Sliding
Under the skin of the water
Like fish.
.
We saw the precious pearls of the sea
And were amazed.
.
Love happened at last
Without intimidation…with symmetry of wish.
So I gave…and you gave
And we were fair.
.
It happened with marvelous ease
Like writing with jasmine water,
.
Like a spring flowing
from the ground.

by Pablo Neruda
Art by Albert Edelfelt

Update
Thanks Clarissa Rodriguez
for correcting me
the Poem is indeed by Nizar Qabbani
but
Pablo Neruda has wrote many poems as well
check it out here ;o)
www.poemhunter.com/

Dr. Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
Writer of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries,
on a tandem with his wife.
Original Artist: By Elliott & Fry.
(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images).
Circa 1895

A maiden in contemplation 1898
by Gaston La Touche
(1854 - 1913)

The old woman went out to ask the moon
the way to Soria Maria’s castle.

Erik Werenskiold,
from Fairy tales from the far North,
by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, London, 1897.
Via archive.org.

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Fantasia Fairies
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

“Never say goodbye,
because good bye means going away,
and going away means forgetting.”

~Peter Pan
Source

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things
there are to find out about?
It just makes me feel glad to be alive—
it’s such an interesting world.
It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know
all about everything, would it?
There’d be no scope for imagination then,
would there?”

-Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Art by Claire Keanes

~Sunday Poem..

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust, 
equally the beech, the oaks,
and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.

I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come 
into the world to do this,
to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

by Mary Oliver,
“When I Am Among the Trees”
Art by William  M. Timlin

BEAUTIFUL PORTAL!
Source

The girl and her dolls, teddy bear,
and pets are very deep in thought and are
putting their best efforts into good penmanship.

Illustration for The Christmas Letter circa 1905-07
by Wuanita Smith, American, 1866–1959.
Black chalk, red and black wash on illustration board.

Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Source

~Vintage Book..

Edmund Dulac ~ Book Cover ~
Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. (Maud Margaret)
Rodolph Stawell ~ 1910

Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed,
and some to be chewed
and digested.

Sir Francis Bacon

~Stanislava Pinchuk

Stanislava Pinchuk’s babushka street art
caught my attention.
The 21-year-old Melbourne based artist creates
street art under the alias Miso.
.

SEE MORE HERE!!!

~a Fairy Tale Poem

There stands by the wood-path shaded
A meek little beggar maid;
Close under her mantle faded;
She is hidden like one afraid.
Yet if you but lifted lightly
That mantle of russet brown,
She would spring up slender and sightly,
In a smoke-blue silken gown.
For she is a princess, fated,

Disguised in the wood to dwell,
And all her life long has awaited
The touch that should break the spell;
And the Oak, that has cast around her
His root like a wrinkled arm,
Is the wild old wizard that bound her
Fast with his cruel charm.
Is the princess worth your knowing?

Then haste, for the spring is brief,
And find the Hepatica growing,
Hid under a last year’s leaf!

By Helen Gray Cone

Art by Arthur Herbert Buckland
(1870-1927)

Source

~Florence Kate Upton

Florence Kate Upton (1873 – 1922)
was an American-born English cartoonist
and author most famous for her Golliwogg
series of children's books.

The Golliwog (originally spelled Golliwogg)
began life as a story book character created
by Florence Kate Upton. Upton was born in 1873
in Flushing, New York, to English parents who
had emigrated to the United States in 1870.
She was the second of four children.
When Upton was fourteen, her father died and,
shortly thereafter, the family returned to England.
For several years she honed her skills as an artist.
Unable to afford art school,
Upton illustrated her own children's book
in the hope of raising tuition money.

In 1895, her book, entitled
"The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg",
was published in London.
Upton drew the illustrations, and her mother,
Bertha Upton, wrote the accompanying verse.
The book's main characters were two Dutch dolls,
Peg and Sarah Jane, and the Golliwogg.
The story begins with Peg and Sara Jane,
on the loose in a toy shop, encountering
"a horrid sight, the blackest gnome."
The little black "gnome" wore bright red trousers,
a red bow tie on a high collared white shirt, and
a blue swallow-tailed coat.
He was a caricature of American black faced
minstrels - in effect, the caricature of a caricature.
She named him Golliwogg.
 

"The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg"
was immensely popular in England, and
Golliwogg became a national star.
For the next fourteen years, Bertha and
Florence Upton created a total of thirteen books
featuring Golliwogg and his adventures,
travelling to such "exotic" places as Africa and
the North Pole, accompanied by his friends,
the Dutch Dolls. In those books the Uptons put
the Golliwogg first in every title.

~Vintage Books

.
“Well,” said Stuart,
“a misspelled word is an abomination
in the sight of everyone.”
.

by Makoto Muramatsu

FANTASTIC!!!
SOURCE

Don’t you hate it
when you go looking
in your wardrobe
for Narnia
and all you find is
a pile of clothes ?

~What are Little Boys made of poem

.
What are little boys made of?
Snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails
That's what little boys are made of !"
.
What are little girls made of?
"Sugar and spice and all things nice
That's what little girls are made of!"
.
A Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme

“A Carol for Brown Owl”
by Margaret W Tarrant

~Vintage images

I found these beautiful vintage images today
I know Valentine’s day is was last tuesday ;o)
but I really wanted to show them to you!

Both images are from John Martin's Book
The Child's Magazine from February 1929.

 Source

~Book…

.
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
And a strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,
an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction
and photography in a thrilling reading experience.

Written and directed by Ransom Riggs.
Purchase Here!

~Find yourself while getting lost.

WOW.. I have 400 followers…

and
For all my readers and booklovers
as A Big thank you
I show you today
these wonderful spaces
with great bookcases!!

~Happy Valentine!

~hApPY vALEnTINE….

The Book of Hours was a devotional book popular
in the later Middle Ages.
It is the most common type of surviving
medieval illuminated manuscript.
Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours
is unique in one way or another, but most contain
a similar collection of texts, prayers and psalms,
often with appropriate decorations,
for Christian devotion. Illumination or decoration
is minimal in many examples, often restricted to
decorated capital letters at the start of psalms
and other prayers, but books made for wealthy
patrons may be extremely lavish, with full-page miniatures.
 BNF - L'Aventures des écritures. Matières et formes :
Livre d’heures à l’usage d’Amiens

HAPPY

VALENTINES

DAY!

XXX

~Sunday Poem

.
When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose is a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey, for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog its day.
.
by Charles Kingsley, Water Babies