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Life is passing slowly,
Death is drawing near,
Life and Death are holy,
What have we to fear?
Faded leaves are falling,
Birds are on the wing,
All that dies in Autumn
Lives again in Spring.
A Ballade of Autumn by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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“I have forged me in sevenfold heats
A shield from foes and lovers,
And no one knows the heart that beats
Beneath the shield that covers.”
— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: “The Shield”
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Ink Black Heart research dump. I won't give away anything plotwise, these are just my notes on the references to other art and literature in the book, thought I would share.
Epilogue to from Chapter One, A Moment, by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge ... second verse still takes my breath away every time I read it. 🖤
Scheherazade from The Thousand and One Nights ... King Shahryar ... loathing all womankind ... marries and kills a new woman each day until no more candidates can be found. 🖤
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And that was when I thrust you down,
And stabbed you twice and twice again,
Because you dared take off your crown,
And be a man like other men.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, from “Mortal Combat”
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A MOMENT by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The clouds had made a crimson crown
Above the mountains high.
The stormy sun was going down
In a stormy sky.
Why did you let your eyes so rest on me,
And hold your breath between?
In all the ages this can never be
As if it had not been.
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What Happens in Bethlehem Doesn't Stay in Bethlehem
A sermon for Christmas Day.It is a time to celebrate the wonder of the holy birth. But the child will become a man, and he is going to ask some difficult things of us someday.
Sandro Botticelli, The Virgin adoring the sleeping Christ Child (c. 1485), Scotland National Gallery, Edinburgh.
What on earth happened last night—at that little stable on the edge of town? It was all so strange, so unbelievable. Some of us are still sleeping it off. Some of us didn’t get any sleep at all, or maybe we were asleep the whole time and it was all just a dream.
There was a really…
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A poem by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR
I sat before my glass one day,
And conjured up a vision bare,
Unlike the aspects glad and gay,
That erst were found reflected there -
The vision of a woman, wild
With more than womanly despair.
Her hair stood back on either side
A face bereft of loveliness.
It had no envy now to hide
What once no man on earth could guess.
It formed the thorny aureole
Of hard, unsanctified distress.
Her lips were open - not a sound
Came though the parted lines of red,
Whate'er it was, the hideous wound
In silence and secret bled.
No sigh relieved her speechless woe,
She had no voice to speak her dread.
And in her lurid eyes there shone
The dying flame of life's desire,
Made mad because its hope was gone,
And kindled at the leaping fire
Of jealousy and fierce revenge,
And strength that could not change nor tire.
Shade of a shadow in the glass,
O set the crystal surface free!
Pass - as the fairer visions pass -
Nor ever more return, to be
The ghost of a distracted hour,
That heard me whisper: - 'I am she!'
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
(1861-1907)
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Spotlight Poetry - The Witch - A Poem by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Spotlight Poetry – The Witch – A Poem by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
© James Coates, Old Woman, 2016
The Witch by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
I have walked a great while over the snow,And I am not tall nor strong.My clothes are wet, and my teeth are set,And the way was hard and long.I have wandered over the fruitful earth,But I never came here before.Oh, lift me over the threshold, and let me in at the door!
The cutting wind is a cruel foe.I dare not stand in the…
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25th December
I Saw a Stable by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Today is Christmas Day. Coleridge’s short rumination on the ambiguity of the Christian Nativity is a good enough reminder of what the feast day is supposed to be about.
Adoration of the Shepherds by Matthias Stomer (1832). Source: Wikipedia
I Saw a Stable
I saw a stable, low and very bare,
A little child in a manger.
The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care.
To men He was a stranger.
The safety of the world was lying there,
And the world’s danger.
Perhaps it is a fairy tale as the cynics claim, but the idea that mankind could find redemption in the birth of a child, is perhaps something it is worth believing in, if only for one day.
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Okay so first you're a big inspiration to me, you're so cultivated and your writing is *chief kiss*.
Second: who are your favourite poets? (I know it's a tough question but I just got home from my poetry class and there's nothing else on my mind)
cultivated!? that is my new favourite word - it sounds way better than nerd, haha
and snap! cus I got your ask on my walk home from romantic lit class <3
as for my favourite poets? that's a difficult question (but a fun one!)
I consistently gravitate towards Percy Bysshe Shelly, Charlotte Smith, Anne Bannerman, Walt Whitman, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Frank O'Hara, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Brontë.
but there are also specific poems I adore like 'Lines of Life' by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 'Fugue' by Louise Glück, Lady Mary Wroth's Sonnet Sequence, 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor-Coleridge, Allen Ginsburg's 'Howl,' and 'The Wasteland' by T.S. Eliot.
I’d love to know about yours!
#thank you <33#discovering new poets daily as a uni student#but it also means I have very few books with me rn#and I need to search for everything I wanna read so pls recs are so welcome#CO Posts#answered asks#poetry
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Who was this that came by the way,
When the flowers were springing?
She bore in her hair the buds of May,
And a bird on her shoulder, singing.
A girdle of the fairest green
Her slender waist confinèd.
And such a flame was never seen
As in her eyes there shinèd.
By the way she came, that way she went,
And took the sunlight with her.
The May of life shall all be spent
Ere she again come hither!
The Maiden by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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Why did you let your eyes so rest on me,
And hold your breath between?
In all the ages this can never be
As if it had not been.
— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: A Moment
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Ink Black Heart research dump. I won't give away anything plotwise, these are just my notes on the references to other art and literature in the book, thought I would share.
Epigraph to the book from Doubt, by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. I had a bit of bother rooting this out and found it eventually in a huge PDF. Struggled to get a screenshot and in the end just wrote the thing down. 😂
It's a religious poem, obvs, but I thought very on point. I love that the blindness is caused by excess of light.
I was reminded very much of Van Helsing's description of Mina in Dracula, "There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
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Why did you let your eyes so rest on me,
And hold your breath between?
In all the ages this can never be
As if it had not been.
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, from “A Moment”
#poetry#gazing#no going back#romantic#friends to lovers#verse#eyes#in your eyes#holding your breath#irrevocable#epigraph#quotes#words#excerpts#quote#literature#mary elizabeth coleridge
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Writing Notes: Literary Allusions & References Masterlist
Literary canon (in particular, British literary canon) often plays an important role in my writing process. Not just in terms of references and allusions, but also in other aspects of my stories, serving as inspiration for certain scenes, descriptions, and chapter titles. While I plan to discuss some of these specific influences in more depth in separate posts, I wanted to create a masterlist of all the literary works that are alluded to or that I have used as inspiration.
This list will be updated as I post more fics.
Sorrow & Mercy:
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
The Doctor and Student — St. Germain
Commentaries on the Laws of England — Sir William Blackstone
Sonnet 97 — William Shakespeare
Barbara Allen (folk song)
The Hound of the Baskervilles — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
Love in Excess — Eliza Fowler Haywood
She Walks in Beauty — Lord Byron
Bonus/Modern work: The Boys in the Trees — Mary Swan. This book is not alluded to in the story, as it falls far out of the scope of the time period, however it did serve as inspiration for a specific scene.
Ryutaro’s London Adventure:
Frankenstein — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Twelfth Night — Shakespeare
As You Like It — Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice — Shakespeare
Macbeth — Shakespeare
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
Blade of Justice:
Dracula — Bram Stoker
Toll for the Brave — William Cowper (folk song)
Beauty of Every Kind:
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
Emma — Jane Austen
Dracula — Bram Stoker (the story’s title actually comes from a line in this novel)
Echo — Christina Rossetti
Bleak House — Charles Dickens
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 — William Wordsworth
Belinda — Maria Edgeworth
A Moment — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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