“It looks incredible, my lady.”

Last night, your memory stole into my heart As spring sweeps uninvited into barren gardens As morning breezes reinvigorate dormant deserts as a patient suddenly feels better For no apparent reason #MCM Simon Duke of Hastings (𝙿𝙰𝚁𝙾𝙳𝚈)

And so it seems I must always write you letters… That I can never send ~Sylvia Plath

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken.” Shakespeare #WCW Daphne Bridgerton (parody)

“I love you with so much of my heart, that none is left to protest.” William Shakespeare #FF Daphne Bridgerton (parody)

I see love as the roots of a tree Fanning out … holding secure The union of hearts Tempests shall try to tumble the tree But the love … the roots hold fast And forever nourish Even in drought…they somehow find droplets To survive

“Come again to the place Where your presence was as a leaf that skims Down a drouthy way whose ascent bedims The bloom on the farer's face. Come again, with the feet That were light on the green as a thistledown ball…” Come again, to me Thomas Hardy #MCM Simon Duke of Hastings (𝙿𝙰𝚁𝙾𝙳𝚈)

“You are definitely the diamond of the season, Miss Bridgerton.” #FF Daphne Bridgerton (parody)

There is a glimpse into his depths, behind the exterior projected, beyond Duke Hastings. Simon Duke of Hastings (𝙿𝙰𝚁𝙾𝙳𝚈) … just makes me … feel #FF

Oil on Canvas, Markus Åkesson.

Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, Florence, Italy, (1436). It is one of Italy's largest churches, and until the development of new structural materials in the modern era, the dome was the largest in the world. It remains the largest brick dome ever constructed.

Angels and archangels     May have gathered there, Cherubim and seraphim     Thronged the air; But only you,     In your maiden bliss Worshipped Christmas morning,     With a kiss. — Christina Rossetti #MerryChristmas Daphne Bridgerton (parody)

Simon Duke of Hastings (𝙿𝙰𝚁𝙾𝙳𝚈) "Love came down at Christmas; Love all lovely, love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign." Christina Rossetti

Miss Claudia and Mr. Luke's portraits of one another may leave something to be desired, but Miss Nicola Coughlan's reading of Lady Whistledown's papers of the third social season will have you begging for more. #TUDUM

Raffaelle Monti, The Sleep of Sorrow and The Dream of Joy (Detail) Marble Sculpture 1861