326/365 Ghosts in the Graveyard

So techincally this is a day late seeing how it's 2am, but I don't care, I did it and posted before I have gone to bed :P

I'm not sure if I've stated this little fact about me, but I love the victorian type style. The dresses, hats, jewelry, tones, all that fun stuff. So I'm on a gothic victorian style kick since I came up with the "dress" idea. Today I went to Michael's and purchased that pretty cross, a cameo pendant, some black ribbon and that chain with the cross. This is my first time EVER wearing a cross, I have never owned one before today (it's against the religion I was raised with) I don't plan on wearing it other then for photos, because I think they are beautiful in a photo, but have no reason to wear it otherwise. But the cameo, I have a feeling I'll be wearing it all the time. And of course, I had to wear my mini top hat. It's just too pretty to pass up.

Expect to see this dress a few more times, because I love it.

 

Spirits of the Dead by Edgar Allen Poe

 

Thy soul shall find itself alone

'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone --

Not one, of all the crowd, to pry

Into thine hour of secrecy:

Be silent in that solitude

Which is not loneliness -- for then

The spirits of the dead who stood

In life before thee are again

In death around thee -- and their will

Shall then overshadow thee: be still.

 

For the night -- tho' clear -- shall frown --

And the stars shall look not down,

From their high thrones in the Heaven,

With light like Hope to mortals given --

But their red orbs, without beam,

To thy weariness shall seem

As a burning and a fever

Which would cling to thee for ever :

 

Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish --

Now are visions ne'er to vanish --

From thy spirit shall they pass

No more -- like dew-drop from the grass:

 

The breeze -- the breath of God -- is still --

And the mist upon the hill

Shadowy -- shadowy -- yet unbroken,

Is a symbol and a token --

How it hangs upon the trees,

A mystery of mysteries! --

Done