The Melancholy Aesthete 🌈
@melancholyaesthete.bsky.social
Dales Lad now living in the Emerald Isle 🇮🇪
Oh, that we might lose ourselves,
In thickets dense with ancient lore
Among the echoes of forgotten elves,
And secrets whispered evermore #PaganSunday
In thickets dense with ancient lore
Among the echoes of forgotten elves,
And secrets whispered evermore #PaganSunday
June 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Oh, that we might lose ourselves,
In thickets dense with ancient lore
Among the echoes of forgotten elves,
And secrets whispered evermore #PaganSunday
In thickets dense with ancient lore
Among the echoes of forgotten elves,
And secrets whispered evermore #PaganSunday
In the kaleidoscope of existence,
Draped in hues of the unseen
Where love tangled in secret storms,
We rise like the morning sun!
Draped in hues of the unseen
Where love tangled in secret storms,
We rise like the morning sun!
June 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In the kaleidoscope of existence,
Draped in hues of the unseen
Where love tangled in secret storms,
We rise like the morning sun!
Draped in hues of the unseen
Where love tangled in secret storms,
We rise like the morning sun!
Pádraig Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke were executed on this day in 1916 in the Stonebreaker's Yard of Kilmainham Gaol.
#EasterRising #Ireland32
#EasterRising #Ireland32
May 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Pádraig Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke were executed on this day in 1916 in the Stonebreaker's Yard of Kilmainham Gaol.
#EasterRising #Ireland32
#EasterRising #Ireland32
On Easter Monday, in the midst of the 1916 Easter Rising, a green flag with the words “Irish Republic” painted on it was raised aloft by Eamon Bulfin on the roof of the rebel headquarters of the G.P.O. in Dublin.
#EasterRising #Ireland32
#EasterRising #Ireland32
April 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On Easter Monday, in the midst of the 1916 Easter Rising, a green flag with the words “Irish Republic” painted on it was raised aloft by Eamon Bulfin on the roof of the rebel headquarters of the G.P.O. in Dublin.
#EasterRising #Ireland32
#EasterRising #Ireland32
Cáisc Shona Daoibh go léir! Happy Easter to you all!
Sláinte! 🍻
Sláinte! 🍻
April 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Cáisc Shona Daoibh go léir! Happy Easter to you all!
Sláinte! 🍻
Sláinte! 🍻
Well done Willie and Patrick Mullins - over the moon! 🥂🏆🏇
#grandnational2025
#grandnational2025
April 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Well done Willie and Patrick Mullins - over the moon! 🥂🏆🏇
#grandnational2025
#grandnational2025
I love to choose my shadows
a tiny bit of light, I don't mind for I love the way
the light from the Sun comes into the house
like a visitor from another realm
welcomed for a bit, but not to overwhelm
like any discreet and thoughtful guest
to leave so as not to outstay
its welcome
a tiny bit of light, I don't mind for I love the way
the light from the Sun comes into the house
like a visitor from another realm
welcomed for a bit, but not to overwhelm
like any discreet and thoughtful guest
to leave so as not to outstay
its welcome
April 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I love to choose my shadows
a tiny bit of light, I don't mind for I love the way
the light from the Sun comes into the house
like a visitor from another realm
welcomed for a bit, but not to overwhelm
like any discreet and thoughtful guest
to leave so as not to outstay
its welcome
a tiny bit of light, I don't mind for I love the way
the light from the Sun comes into the house
like a visitor from another realm
welcomed for a bit, but not to overwhelm
like any discreet and thoughtful guest
to leave so as not to outstay
its welcome
On this day 28 March 1941 English novelist Virginia Woolf, suffering from depression, filled her overcoat pocket with stones and walked into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex and drowned herself.
"Above, the world spins on, indifferent, cold,
In waters dark, find solace from the fight."
"Above, the world spins on, indifferent, cold,
In waters dark, find solace from the fight."
March 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
On this day 28 March 1941 English novelist Virginia Woolf, suffering from depression, filled her overcoat pocket with stones and walked into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex and drowned herself.
"Above, the world spins on, indifferent, cold,
In waters dark, find solace from the fight."
"Above, the world spins on, indifferent, cold,
In waters dark, find solace from the fight."
The endpapers to Faust by Goethe, illustrated by Harry Clarke, 1925
March 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The endpapers to Faust by Goethe, illustrated by Harry Clarke, 1925
Where Morpheus lingers, there's solace in streams
For lost are the burdens, the edges of pain
For lost are the burdens, the edges of pain
February 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Where Morpheus lingers, there's solace in streams
For lost are the burdens, the edges of pain
For lost are the burdens, the edges of pain
You are my heart, my soul, my love and my life. Always and forever 💚
February 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
You are my heart, my soul, my love and my life. Always and forever 💚
I conjure the wildflowers
Their rebellion against the winter’s grasp
"Snowdrops in Winter"; a watercolour by my mother, words are mine.
Their rebellion against the winter’s grasp
"Snowdrops in Winter"; a watercolour by my mother, words are mine.
February 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I conjure the wildflowers
Their rebellion against the winter’s grasp
"Snowdrops in Winter"; a watercolour by my mother, words are mine.
Their rebellion against the winter’s grasp
"Snowdrops in Winter"; a watercolour by my mother, words are mine.
Lá Fhéile Bríde – Happy St. Brigid's Day! #StBrigidsDay
January 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Lá Fhéile Bríde – Happy St. Brigid's Day! #StBrigidsDay
It is the evening of the day. Rest in peace, Marianne Faithfull. Iconic, in the truest sense of the word.
January 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
It is the evening of the day. Rest in peace, Marianne Faithfull. Iconic, in the truest sense of the word.
You linger, dear Virginia, a spectre in the night
A lighthouse for the restless souls #VirginiaWoolf
A lighthouse for the restless souls #VirginiaWoolf
January 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
You linger, dear Virginia, a spectre in the night
A lighthouse for the restless souls #VirginiaWoolf
A lighthouse for the restless souls #VirginiaWoolf
“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
~ Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
~ Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
January 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
~ Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
~ Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
Oh, Marchesa, draped in strange allure
Your beauty, a paradox, bright and strange
Dance on, dance on to the edge of night
A siren's call through opium swirls #MarchesaCasati
Your beauty, a paradox, bright and strange
Dance on, dance on to the edge of night
A siren's call through opium swirls #MarchesaCasati
January 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Oh, Marchesa, draped in strange allure
Your beauty, a paradox, bright and strange
Dance on, dance on to the edge of night
A siren's call through opium swirls #MarchesaCasati
Your beauty, a paradox, bright and strange
Dance on, dance on to the edge of night
A siren's call through opium swirls #MarchesaCasati
Born on this day in 1881. Let's raise a glass to the strange beauty of Marchesa Luisa Casati, the fabulously eccentric Italian heiress immortalised by artists like Giovanni Boldini and Man Ray, and who scandalised society with her escapades! 🌟🥂
January 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Born on this day in 1881. Let's raise a glass to the strange beauty of Marchesa Luisa Casati, the fabulously eccentric Italian heiress immortalised by artists like Giovanni Boldini and Man Ray, and who scandalised society with her escapades! 🌟🥂
Born on this day in 1788, the English Romantic poet and peer Lord Byron.
“There are four questions of value in life .. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
~ Lord Byron
“There are four questions of value in life .. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
~ Lord Byron
January 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Born on this day in 1788, the English Romantic poet and peer Lord Byron.
“There are four questions of value in life .. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
~ Lord Byron
“There are four questions of value in life .. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
~ Lord Byron
Vivien Leigh has her portrait painted by David Jagger, in 1941. Jagger reputedly said that pictorially speaking, Vivien was his "ideal type: dark, vivid and with character as well as beauty."
January 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Vivien Leigh has her portrait painted by David Jagger, in 1941. Jagger reputedly said that pictorially speaking, Vivien was his "ideal type: dark, vivid and with character as well as beauty."
Across the barren fields, a silver spectre weaves
The trees stand tall, enrobed in pale despair
In this cathedral of fog, we are fragile and small
The trees stand tall, enrobed in pale despair
In this cathedral of fog, we are fragile and small
January 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Across the barren fields, a silver spectre weaves
The trees stand tall, enrobed in pale despair
In this cathedral of fog, we are fragile and small
The trees stand tall, enrobed in pale despair
In this cathedral of fog, we are fragile and small
January 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Almost a century ago and still very much up to date 😩
January 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Almost a century ago and still very much up to date 😩