Elegant gothic lolita quote collection

[allureviola.livejournal.com]

I have a quaint idea for this community! Why don't we contribute quotes here... more those which are reminiscient of sweet lolita, gothic, aristocrat, victorian times and verses etc...I'm sure each of us has a little of our favourites. :)

I shall start-

“Can I forget—canst thou forget,
When playing with thy golden hair,
How quick thy fluttering heart did move?
Oh! by my soul, I see thee yet,
With eyes so languid, breast so fair,
And lips, though silent, breathing love.”
--- Extracted from Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not by George Gordon Lord Byron

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[neurotic-flower.livejournal.com]

"On thy withered lips and dry,
Which like barren furrows lie,
Brooding kisses I will pour,
Shall thy youthful heart restore,
Such kind show'rs in autumn fall,
And a second spring recall;
Nor from thee will ever part,
Ancient Person of my heart."

-second stanza of "A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover" by John Wilmot

[allureviola.livejournal.com]

So lovely! I always had a soft spot for Wilmot. :) do post more?

[neurotic-flower.livejournal.com]

hehe, I love him too. It's amazing how his poetry goes from one extreme to another--his love poems are breathtaking, which makes it hard to believe he wrote poems like "Signior Dildo" or "Satyre of Mankind"

Here's the first two stanzas of a poem called "The Unforgiven" by Edwin Arlington Robinson(one of my favorite poets):

"When he, who is the unforgiven,
Beheld her first, he found her fair:
No promise ever dreamt in heaven
Could then have lured him anywhere
That would have been away from there;
And all his wits had lightly striven,
Foiled with her voice, and eyes, and hair."

"There's nothing in the saints and sages
To meet the shafts her glances had,
Or such as hers have had for ages
To blind a man till he be glad,
And humble him till he be mad.
The story would have many pages,
And would be neither good nor bad."

[allureviola.livejournal.com]

ooh this quote is... *blink blink really lolita! *haha :p

:) i really like it.

[neurotic-flower.livejournal.com]

heheh, you should look up more work by Edwin Arlington Robinson, not all of it is really "lolita-esque" but it's good none the less.

[palantiriell.livejournal.com]

I just have this Emily Post quote I like, when I was reading tea etiquette yesterday, and it is rather snippy to the snobbish and socially awkward:

If you for instance, are one of these, if you are really afraid of knowing some one who might some day prove unpleasant, if you are such a snob that you can’t take people at their face value, then why make the effort to bother with people at all? Why not shut your front door tight and pull down the blinds and, sitting before a mirror in your own drawing-room, order tea for two? -Emily Post

I don't know, I just liked it.

[hellowonderland.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry if posting the entire poem is a bit much, but I feel it is very fitting.

"When I am Dead, My Dearest" by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.

[m1sha.livejournal.com]

I wonder by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den? 'Twas so ; but this, all pleasures fancies be ; If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. And now good-morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear ; For love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone ; Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown ; Let us possess one world ; each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.

-from "Tristan+Isolde"

Most awesome movie evar! Don't watch it if you want a happy ending though

[marylittlegoth.livejournal.com]

Puck:
Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand
And the youth bewitched by me
Begging for a lovers fee
Shall we their fond passions see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!

A Midsummer Nights Dream - William Shakespeare.

(had to learn it in school and still remember it!)

[neurotic-flower.livejournal.com]

I love that play!

[palantiriell.livejournal.com]

My absolute favourite Shakespearian play.

'Over hill over dale over bush over briar, I have wandered everywhere, swifter than the moon's sphere...'

I've seen it about four times :3

[allureviola.livejournal.com]

ooh i learnt that play too!

[kainoliero.livejournal.com]

"Amelia mixed the mustard,
She mixed it good and thick;
She put it in the custard
And made her Mother sick,
And showing satisfaction
By many a loud huzza
'Observe' said she 'the action
Of mustard on Mamma.'"

~A.E. Housman.

[la-veuve-chibi.livejournal.com]

"Annabel Lee" and "Ulalume" come to mind. As does a lot of Edward Gorey.

[allureviola.livejournal.com]

post? :)

[madrigallia.livejournal.com]

"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy days denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow.
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, that tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!"

-from Selected Poems of Lord Byron (original 1893 version ¦'D)

[tnicole1976.livejournal.com]

i love this poem, but it's rather dark (oddly i got it out of a trashy romance novel):

I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone is left entire,
The gleanings of an empty heart.
The storms of ruthless dispensation
Have struck my flowery garland numb-
I live in lonely desolation
And wonder when my time will come.
Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By tardy winter's whistling chill,
A single leaf which has outlasted
Its season will be trembling still.
--Aleksandr Pushkin

and i really like this quote from wuthering heights. obviously i love drama :) haha

"You said I killed you - haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only don't leave me in this abyss, where i cannot find you!"

[allureviola.livejournal.com]

only 1 comment, that trashy romance novels are sure getting better. :p