 | Meredith Kirton - Gardening - 2004 - 454 pages
...candelabra-like whorls. They like a moist, humus-rich soil and a dressing of lime. A spot under a deciduous ...pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can...his strength, — a malady Most incident to maids.. . . William Shakespeare tree is perfect for primulas: the winter sunshine promotes flowering and the... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Art - 2005 - 344 pages
...other flowers not mentioned by Ovid: O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! - daffodils, That come before...oxlips, and The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flow'r-de-luce being one. O, these I lack To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend To strew him... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 472 pages
...sentiment, which melts into the very heart: O Proserpina! For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before...malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips, and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack To make you garlands... | |
 | John Ruskin - Art - 2005 - 396 pages
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Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus... 
