| 单词 | asphodel |
| 例句 | “What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Around it are wide wastes, wan and cold, and meadows of asphodel, presumably strange, pallid, ghostly flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was covered with yellowish rocks and the whitest asphodels set against the already hard blue of the sky. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The very plants were unknown to them—pink lousewort with its sprays of hooked flowers, bog asphodel and the thin-stemmed blooms of the sundews, rising above their hairy, fly-catching mouths, all shut fast by night. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In Greek mythology, the asphodel meadows are part of the underworld; ancient Greek sources differ about whether those meadows were happy. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z The western false asphodel doesn’t do this; it puts these sticky hairs on the main stem bearing its flowers, which grows up to 80 centimeters tall. This meat-eating plant is only a part-time killer 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z The summer asphodel, the flower of the underworld. Mortar flowers 2013-06-12T17:50:53.917Z It is possible that a trace of the rainbow bridge is to be seen in the Greek myth of the asphodel meadows, which are a part of the infernal regions. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Forced reluctantly, I confess, for to some the odour of the tall asphodel, when growing in quantity, is far from pleasant. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z A cluster of tall and sickly asphodel are in blossom near the priest. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z Her cheek, smooth, warm, semi-transparent, tinted as the petal of the asphodel, was near his lips, but never desecrated by them. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z It was spring-time, there were irises up to our knees, the asphodel bushes were in flower and the air on this wide upland, with Jebel Zarhon on our right hand, was sweet and clean. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Thou sighest, "How sweet it were to rove Those paths of asphodel; Where all we prize, and all who love, Rejoice!" A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z In January the tall rods of the poet's asphodel rose in such profusion that we were forced to give it place as the typical island flower. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Lovely avenues bordered with flowers, winding through the plain; and shady footpaths meandering among fields of asphodel and lavender. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z The asphodel grows abundantly in the dry rocky soil; aloes, planted in rows, form impenetrable hedges. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z They came to a lovely valley, Agleam with asphodel, And the soul of the woman speaking, Said, "Here I fain would dwell!" The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z It wandered still in glades of hyacinth and asphodel. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z There is no other call From wind to wave, from rose to asphodel, Than Love's alone—the thing we cannot quell, Do what we will, from font to funeral. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z In "Evangeline" Longfellow refers to it in this line: "Crown us with asphodel flowers, that are wet with the dews of nepenthe." Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z Ghost moths hover over asphodel; Shades, once Laïs' peers Drift past us; The mist is grey. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z Late in the afternoon she dressed hurriedly in a delightful frock of transparent blue muslin the colour of asphodels, and prepared for her drive with Quelch. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z Other experiments gave emerald like rain-wet leaves in sunlight, gold like the pale outer petals of asphodels, ripe glowing orange, blue like the Mediterranean. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z With respect to Mallows, Hesiod says— Nor do men know how great may be the good Derived from asphodel and mallow food. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z A cluster of long, sickly asphodels is in bloom, not far from the priest, in the night. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z We pluck the asphodel, Yet we weave no crowns For we have no vines; No one speaks here; No one kisses. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z In some well-kept untroubled hell Where frustrate souls like mine may dwell, I shall look up and hear his note Coming across the asphodel. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z She slipped her arm into his, smiling through her pain, and they went back again, between the nodding asphodels and the hedges of wisteria, along the path she had just trodden with her son. Life of Saint Monica 2011-04-25T02:00:07.817Z Even the asphodel, which covers all the barer and stonier tracts with its fields of bloom, was here scarce and poor. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z She wrought her songs in secret ways, Yet cared not where they fell; Her soul distilled itself like dews In rue and asphodel. Sonnets and Songs 2011-01-29T03:00:22.093Z The asphodel wants cutting sadly, The lies are wretched, more’s the pity But everything is managed badly By that infernal Green Committee. Wayside Weeds 2011-01-23T03:00:17.230Z The very air, all laden with the strong scent of roses, lilies and sweet asphodel, was like the breath of an enamoured youth who whispered in her ear sweet words of love. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z He had spoken of blue olive vapours—the sea blackened by the breath of the sirocco—and shining meadows of asphodel. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z I know the gray-green asphodels Still sheet the dim Elysian mead, And ever by dark Lethe's wells The poppy sheds her ghostly seed. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z In Greek legend the asphodel is the most famous of the plants connected with the dead and the underworld. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The English word 'daffodil' is a perversion of asphodel. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli And all about the margin of the lake there bloomed an incredible number of tall flowers, both lily flowers and asphodels. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions "What kind of meadows could they be—meadows of asphodel?" The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z A well-known example is daffodil, which was originally affodyl, a corruption of asphodel, a name of unknown meaning, originally given to the iris, and transferred to narcissus. Springtime and Other Essays It was planted on graves, and is often connected with Persephone, who appears crowned with a garland of asphodels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The asphodel was a favourite plant among the ancients, who were in the habit of planting it round their tombs. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Of asphodels, “which doe grow naturally in Spaine and France and from thence were first brought unto us to furnish our Gardens.” The Old English Herbals What sort of meadows could they be—meadows of asphodel? The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z A crown of asphodel blossoms the emblems of immortality—encircled her brow, and a palm branch—the symbol of the martyr's victory—was placed upon her breast. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs The asphodel was also supposed to be a remedy for poisonous snake-bites and a specific against sorcery; it was fatal to mice, but preserved pigs from disease. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Is there much wisdom in searching for asphodels. Geography and Plays I thought of the loganstone, and of the frail woman, the stalk of asphodel, who had unhinged it. Love's Usuries While we were sitting on the wall the Professor came toiling up the hill; but he had not found the asphodel. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Where its depths had been were parterres of gems, slopes of asphodel, the gleam and brilliance of the gates of paradise. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident The English word “daffodil” is a perversion of “asphodel,” formerly written “affodil.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Their hands that lifted, their feet that fell, Made the darkness blossom to asphodel. Shapes and Shadows "For 'asphodel' translate 'woman,'" the critic replied, "and you solve the riddle." Love's Usuries Of wild flowers the most common are yellow daisies, poppies, irises, asphodels and ranunculuses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The girl looked at the man and then away, at vistas he could not see, the winding slopes of asphodel, the sudden and precipitate abyss. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident "The Colonel did not mean hay; he meant asphodels and amaranth and moly." Hildegarde's Harvest Like the asphodel, this root is found everywhere. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products "It rocks and rocks, but a stalk of asphodel may shift it from its centre." Love's Usuries There Valeria reposed upon a soft, mossy bank, one hand resting upon her gently-heaving bosom, the other placed beneath her head, which was still crowned with a wreath of asphodels worn during the evening meal. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 I. Shall we forget how, in our day, The Sabine fields about us lay In amaranth and asphodel, And bubbling, cold Bandusian well, Fair Pyrrhas haunting every way? Blooms of the Berry Man holds her in his heart as night doth hold The moonlight memories of day's dead gold; Or as a winter-withered asphodel In its dead loveliness holds scents of old. Undertones The word daffodil is directly derived from asphodel, with a d unaccountably prefixed. Minor Poems by Milton The land was Alu, the asphodel meadows of the celestial Nile that wound through the Milky Way. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal The Four-in-hand Club is extinct, or, with those ancient charioteers at Troy, courses in Hades over meadows of asphodel. Old Roads and New Roads For the asphodel is pre-eminently the flower of Southern Italy and of Sicily, since it presents a fit emblem of a departed grandeur that is still impressive in its decay. The Naples Riviera We walked out to S. Nicol�, an early church, which crowns a hillock thickly sown with asphodels in blossom, some little distance from the road and a mile or so from Nona. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Daffadil is derived from asphodel, with a curious, and altogether unusual, prefixed d. Minor Poems by Milton Crown we our heroes with a holier wreath Than man e'er wore upon this side of death; Mix with their laurels deathless asphodels, And chime their p�ans from the sacred bells! The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President The sandy elevations are golden with tormintilla; a richer gold is that which lies below, where the marsh glows with bog asphodel. The Broom-Squire Between the mountains and the tideless sea Stretches a plain where silence reigns supreme; A land of asphodel and weeds that teem Where once a city’s life ran joyfully. The Naples Riviera But as we ascend slowly the flowers increase; wild hollyhocks, and morning-glories, and clumps of blue anchusa, and scarlet adonis, and tall wands of white asphodel. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Strait as the pine, the pride of all the grove, More blooming than the spring, and sweeter far, Than asphodels or roses infant sweets. The Prince of Parthia A Tragedy Tumbling head over heels in the asphodel meadows like brown paper parcels pitched down a shoot in the post office! Monday or Tuesday I see the footprints of cattle, but they are marked as though the cattle were going to the asphodel meadow, not away from it. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life A fringe of budding little trees and of great pale asphodels; the smell of them and of freshness. The Spirit of Rome The plants and grasses he trod were the asphodels, sundew, water-mint his feet had crushed—crushed into fragrance—five-and-twenty years ago.… Merry-Garden and Other Stories Again reveal the mystic hidden rune Whereby to find the slopes of asphodel— Ah, then to hear Apollo charm his lyre And see Diana ’neath the sickle moon. The Rose-Jar We observed a number of asphodels growing, and here and there patches of corn land. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria Ptolemy, the son of Hephæstion, had made a similar remark about the Gigoman rock,58 stating that it might be stirred with the stalk of an asphodel, but could not be removed by any force. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Inland stretched the fields of asphodels and the deep woods. The Spirit of Rome Thus the father lives in his son and "strides off delighted through the meadow of asphodel." Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Never again, unless we are destined to rejoin our houris in heaven, and to saunter over fields of asphodel in another and a greener youth—never again shall those joys be ours! The Bertrams These, together with the asphodels, which literally whiten the ground, indicate the neighbourhood of the sea. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria But once I broke with thee And walked among the asphodel alone: Therefore thou wilt reserve this reverie, Like sumptuous flame closed up in alabaster. The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence And as the horses cantered along the soft grass, the scent of last year's mint and fennel rose from stubble-fields, and the rank, fresh smell of crushed succulent asphodels. The Spirit of Rome Oreithyia, by the North Wind carried To stormy Thrace from Athens where you tarried Down by Ilissus all a blowy day Among the asphodels, how rapt away Thither, and in what frozen bed wert married? Helen Redeemed and Other Poems The asphodel bent under her flying feet, and the golden flowers of the Fiori Maggio were swept aside as she fled. A Book of Myths The hot wind of the desert has passed over it, and the spring beauty of iris and orchid, asphodel and marigold, has vanished. Parables of the Christ-life His favourite plants were the vine, ivy, laurel, and asphodel. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome Above all rose the splendid pale pink blossoms of the asphodel, a striking feature of a Sicilian landscape. The Princess of the School Girls who delight to dwell Where grows most asphodel, Gather to their calm breasts each word you speak: The mild Persephone Places you on her knee, And your cool palm smooths down stern Pluto’s cheek. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection “I pity you, Milanion, for when thou dost race with me, the goal is assuredly the meadows of asphodel near where sit Pluto and Persephone on their gloomy thrones.” A Book of Myths Crown we our heroes with a holier wreath Than man e'er wore upon this side of death; Mix with their laurels deathless asphodels, And chime their pæans from the sacred bells! Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings Ceres Go, you, and you, and every one— To stay such heart distracting harm, Go, each bring flowers upon her arm: Pink, pansy, poppy, pimpernell, Acanthus, almond, asphodel. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 I incline to asphodel myself, because of its immortal significance. The Princess of the School She went to the field of Enna to amuse herself by gathering asphodels, and being tired, fell asleep. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 While the sun shone and the herdsmen could see the nodding white cotton-grass, the asphodel, and the golden kingcups that hid the black death-traps of the pitiless marshes, they had no fear of Pan. A Book of Myths A name applied by the Greeks to the stem of the asphodel, and not misapplied to this set of plants, which in some sort resemble the asphodel. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers At the head of it, where we trod on asphodels and sweet-smelling mints and brushed the young stalks of the loose-strife, stood a rustic bridge partly screened by alders. The Adventures of Harry Revel And Persephone, wandering among the fields of asphodel, paused with her white hands out-stretched to catch its drowsy beauty; and Arethusa, turned into a fountain, hushed her music to let it have its way. The Call of the Blood The great mis-shapen lilies bend not as she passes; the frost has congealed them, has made them like the asphodels that illumine the paths of Hades. The Child of Pleasure His hives stood empty and silent, and no more did “the murmuring of innumerable bees” drowse the ears of the herds who watched their flocks cropping the red clover and the asphodel of the meadows. A Book of Myths Unrest our spirit fills; For gold, men give us stones and brass— For asphodels, rank weeds and grass— For jewels, bits of coloured glass— On this side of the hills. The Farringdons Turning to right, to left, or to look behind her, dimly seen mountains soared toward a sky that deepened from asphodel to the dark indigo of a star-powdered zenith. The Guests Of Hercules You walked as if you were treading on asphodel, and you carried your head as if you'd bought the whole world. The Woman's Way Nevertheless, the roots of the asphodel were thought by the ancient Greeks to be edible, and they were therefore laid in tombs as food for the dead. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The smell of the fresh-ploughed earth is dear to me, the breath of the kine that have grazed in the meadows of wild parsley and of asphodel. A Book of Myths My landlord had protested against my using the office at night for poker purposes, so I passed up the law and sought the asphodel fields of promotion. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) The foundations of masonry which supported them and the drums of their gigantic columns are tufted with wild palm, aloe, asphodel, and crimson snapdragon. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Thenceforward it ran by beds of sundew, water-mint and asphodel, under woods so steeply converging that the traveller upon the ridges heard it as the trickle of water in a cavern. Wandering Heath Andromeda contains many such lines, as for example: Violet, asphodel, ivy, and vine-leaves, roses and lilies— Nereid, siren, and triton, and dolphin, and arrowy fishes. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Soft music filled the air; soft breezes came to them as from fields of amaranth and asphodel. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 As early as July 15th I found as many Cigales as I could wish on the stems of the asphodel, all in process of laying. Social Life in the Insect World There the dwarf-palm 294 tufts with its spiky foliage the clefts of limestone rock, and the lizards run in and out among bushes of tree-spurge and wild cactus and grey asphodels. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Thy wooded lanes with shade and gleam Where bloomed the fragrant asphodel, Now bleak commercially teem With signs "To Let," "To Buy," "To Sell." The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar And now they could see the Sirens, on Anthemousa, the flowery isle; three fair maidens sitting on the beach, beneath a red rock in the setting sun, among beds of crimson poppies and golden asphodel. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People But, scorched and barren, in its arid well, We found our dreams' forgotten fountain-head; And by black, bitter waters, crushed and dead, Among wild weeds, Truth's trampled asphodel. Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses About the same time I notice frequently, on the asphodels in the paddock and on those of the neighbouring hills, certain indications that the eggs have recently hatched out. Social Life in the Insect World Lying among acanthus leaves and asphodels, bound together by wreaths of white and pink convolvulus, we only feel that this is the loveliest landscape on which our eyes have ever rested or can rest. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series These be the tracks of high-horned kine, but all are turned back to the meadow of asphodel. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological The hillside was just turning purple with heather bloom, and along the winding, stony road the yellow asphodels were dancing in the wind. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance We lay upon your folded hands ��The wreath of asphodel; We speak above your peaceful face ��The tender word Farewell! The Poems of Henry Van Dyke It travelled under the rosy eaves of a forest of blossoming almond up to a steep as haggard with weather as a Scotch moor, and dipped again to hedges of aloes and cactus and asphodel. The Judge At their feet rare flowers sprang up, crocuses and asphodels and white lilies; and the air was filled with the odor of orange blossoms. Hero Tales There he lolled, immortal Bottom, propped on a bed of asphodel and moly that seemed to curd the moonshine; and at his side, Titania slim and scarlet, and shimmering like a bride-cake. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Boaz knew not that there a woman lay, Nor Ruth what God desired of her could tell; Fresh rose the perfume of the asphodel, And tender breathed the dusk on Galgala. Recent Developments in European Thought In spring, when peach and almond trees are in blossom, and when the roadside is starred with asphodels, this country is most beautiful in its gladness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series In another life, less begirt by material difficulties, we may meet amongst the asphodel, where there is no opportunity for the display of mere mechanical accomplishments. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 11, 1892 The blue bells of campanulae swayed aloft, some of them even over the tall asphodels, whose golden stems served as their steeples. Abbe Mouret's Transgression For they had never mourned for the daughter of Demeter in the asphodel meadows of Sicily, nor traversed the glades of Cithæron with fawn-skin and with spear. Miscellanies Only Juno can step from the clouds without packing a bag and feeding the peacocks and leaving, pinned to an asphodel, a note for Jupiter. Romance Island When he heard these brave tidings of his son, Achilles rejoiced in spirit, and strode with lofty gait along the plain of asphodel. Stories from the Odyssey Arrayed in white, it was laid out on a mat; its arms mutely crossed, between its lips an asphodel; at the feet, a withered hawthorn bough. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Give me a sign That, in the pitchy night, Comes to my pillow an immortal Spouse, And not a fiend, hiding with happy boughs Of palm and asphodel The pits of hell!’ The Unknown Eros Doubtless the dispute is still being carried on between these chieftains from their beds of asphodel and moly in Elysium. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 This man, this almost stranger, was rousing it as warmth and light stir the sleeping asphodels of spring. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 It was a smooth and broad pathway, fringed with flowers, and leading into the meadows of asphodel. Sermons to the Natural Man He can hardly sit still on his pro-consular throne; he smiles in dockets and demi-officials; he walks up and down his alabaster halls, and out into his gardens of asphodel, and snuffs the air. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series A dog in the North Country is surely qualifying for some canine heaven in the asphodel meadows. The New North My harps take up the mournful strain that from a lost world swells, The smoke of torment clouds the light and blights the asphodels. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4 The Higher Life Rue and asphodel had been replaced by lavender and rosemary; the deadly black poppy had been uprooted, and where it had grown there were spikenard and balm. A Spinner in the Sun The fisherman beside it trampled on pimpernels, sundew, watermint, and asphodels, or pushed between clumps of Osmunda regalis that overtopped him by a couple of feet. The Delectable Duchy Gathered from many wanderings, Gethsemane can tell Through what transporting anguish She reached the asphodel! Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Gathered from many wanderings, Gethsemane can tell Through what transporting anguish She reached the asphodel! Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series Unless, perhaps, the gods looked down from high Olympus—the poor immortals—and turned away, disconsolate, to the cheerless fields of asphodel. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On I met a company of Caesar's legionaries tramping through a bed of asphodels. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Some remained in her tresses till she reached the meadows of Acheron, and falling off there grew into the asphodel, with which the meadows thenceforth abounded. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook I walked knee-deep through blooming asphodels, beautiful and strange, but only noticed here by the wild bee. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine So guided and inspired, it cannot but be a charming path; for those who perpetually walk therein come to look as though they were entranced with the perfume that floats from fields of asphodel. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Here, midst meadows of asphodels, the monstrous stream surges and pounds in a huge moat, guardian to the great castle. The Tarn of Eternity Here in meadow of asphodel, Feast we body and mind as well, Merrily ring the luncheon 1st Sops: 2nd Sops: bell! - - - —- bell! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan She touched a bridge of flowers—those feet So light they did not bend the bells Of the celestial asphodels, They fell like dew upon the flowers; Then all the air grew strangely sweet! Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook She was ethereal, sublimated by purity, as shy and modest as a violet, as fragile-slender as a lily, and her eyes, luminous and shrinking tender, were as asphodels on the sward of heaven. The Red One For they had never mourned for the daughter of Demeter in the asphodel meadows of Sicily, nor traversed the glades of Cithaeron with fawn-skin and with spear. Essays and Lectures Instead of all this toil and trouble we would lie like gods reclining on banks of asphodel, pull the heavenly bell-cord when hungry and live on from age to age, ever young Apollos. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 What time the poet hath hymned The writhing maid, lithe-limbed, Quivering on amaranthine asphodel, How can he paint her woes, Knowing, as well he knows, That all can be set right with calomel? The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan Longfellow crowns the death-angel with amaranth, with which Milton says, "the spirits elect bind their resplendent locks;" and his angel of life he crowns with asphodels, the flowers of Pluto or the grave. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook And here is a treasure from France la belle Exhaleth a faint perfume Of wedded lily and asphodel In a garden of song abloom. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac The tale is in Hesiod: 'He would run over the fruit of the asphodel and not break it; nay, he would run with his feet upon wheaten ears and not hurt the fruit.' Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Her hand he seised; and to a shady bank, Thick over-head with verdant roof imbowered, He led her nothing loth; flowers were the couch, Pansies, and violets, and asphodel, And hyacinth; Earth's freshest softest lap. Paradise Lost The non-nomads of these Libyan tribes dwelt in huts made of stakes supporting plaited mats of rush or asphodel. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 And what artless and confident language those symbolic figures spoke which peopled their walls—the lambs browsing among clusters of asphodels, the doves, the green trees of Paradise. Saint Augustin A wingèd death has smitten dumb thy bells, And poured them molten from thy tragic towers: Now are the windows dust that were thy flower Patterned like frost, petalled like asphodels. A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 Bright in the moon the red pomegranate flowers Lean to the Yucca's bells, While with her chrism of dew, sad Midnight fills The milk-white asphodels. War Poetry of the South What attainment would it be to walk in fields of asphodel, when all the colors of all the empyrean were equally dazzling, and perceived by the mind alone? Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories She lay on the short moorland grass among the sweet bog-myrtle and asphodel, until the sun was setting in a red ball over the hillside. Monitress Merle In the other hand were crushed a few spikes of asphodel, the very flowers, no doubt, which had lured me so near the same dangerous brink. Saxe Holm's Stories The asphodel grew in great profusion, and an ivy-leaved shrub, covered with flakes of white bloom, made the air faint with its fragrance. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain Alternate clouds and sunshine overhead, the lights and shadows over the trees, the fields—radiant with gentians, oxslips, columbine, polygaloe, and asphodel—losing none of their charm. Twixt France and Spain The Greeks also planted asphodel and mallow round their graves, as the seeds of these plants were supposed to nourish the dead. The Folk-lore of Plants The lilies of Elysium—asphodels as they call them there—are as immortal as the Elysians themselves. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales In fancy, let them grace thy brows With wreathes of fadeless asphodel, And let them yearly plight their vows Unto the bard they love so well. Canada and Other Poems The asphodel grew in bunches beside the streams, and the large scarlet anemone outshone even the poppy, whose color here is the quintessence of flame. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain This is the immortal life which makes flowers of asphodel bloom in my path, and no rude step can crush them. Memories of Hawthorne The pink is Jove's flower, and of the flowers assigned to Juno may be mentioned the lily, crocus, and asphodel. The Folk-lore of Plants On the inner shore of the lake is a meadow, wherein grows asphodel; here, too, is the fountain that makes war on memory, and is hence called Lethe. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 A wood of asphodel below Uprose as still and sweet as death, And gliding shapes moved to and fro,— I watched them with suspended breath. The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems So Rhadamanthus sent fifty of the Heroes on board a boat hollowed out of an asphodel trunk, with orders to give chase. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 In these parts of ours all is mist and gloom and darkness, and nothing to be had but asphodel and libations and sacrificial cakes and meats. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Even the young-eyed cherubim, choiring on meadows of asphodel, might cease their harping for a time to listen to a tale of the vanished earth, told by that golden tongue. The Story Girl Oh, they were just lying about on the asphodel, among their friends and kinsmen, all arranged according to their clans and tribes.' Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 I know the shoots of myrtle and of asphodel now stir the mould Where wee cool noses sniff the early mist. The Eye of Zeitoon Towards the end of summer, however, some individuals of a particular species, the Xylocopa Cyanescens, may be found huddled together in a shivering group, on a stalk of asphodel, to spend the winter in common. The Life of the Bee So he, and sought the lawn of asphodel. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 On that occasion, however, the only resultant harm was the conviction in the girl's heart that the presence of Paul turned mud flats into beds of asphodel. The Fortunate Youth These need no wreath and no trumpet; like perennial asphodel blossoms, their fame, their glory resounds like the brazen-throated cornet. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations A sudden half-hour with the Neroni was like falling into a pit, an evening spent with Eleanor like an unexpected ramble in some quiet fields of asphodel. Barchester Towers Upon the throne She took her seat, the knight beside her still, Singing on couches of fresh asphodel, And the dance ceased, and the flushed revelers came In glittering phalanx to adore their queen. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 Since the death of Julius she has not thrown aside dark robes; and in general she looks as if, while still alive, she were walking on the asphodel meadow. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero In the House of Hades I abide this day, and in the fields of asphodel. The World's Desire She touched a bridge of flowers—those feet, So light they did not bend the bells Of the celestial asphodels, They fell like dew upon the flowers: Then all the air grew strangely sweet. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 It was dreadful to be thus dissevered from his dryad and sent howling back to a Barchester pandemonium just as the nectar and ambrosia were about to descend on the fields of asphodel. Barchester Towers A sudden half-hour with the Neroni, was like falling into a pit; an evening spent with Eleanor like an unexpected ramble in some quiet fields of asphodel. Barchester Towers "Take me with thee-" Petronius changed the conversation quickly, and said,— "Tell me, are there asphodels on the grass plot in the garden?" Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Hail to thee from afar; but it is not safe, O my dear, for the dry asphodel stalk to move too near the fire. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Can amaranth and asphodel Bring merrier laughter to your eyes? Anthology of Massachusetts Poets The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 It was dreadful to be thus dissevered from the dryad, and sent howling back to a Barchester pandemonium just as the nectar and ambrosia were about to descend on the fields of asphodel. Barchester Towers I've a great deal of work on hand just now—a great deal of work, but' we shall sit down together on the asphodel, and I cannot but think we shall have whisky-toddy even there. And Even Now I beheld his. shade gliding over the asphodels without bending their stalks. Penguin Island We know not, on these hills of ours, The fabled asphodel of Greece, That filleth with immortal flowers Fields where the heroes are at peace! Ban and Arriere Ban When I had told him this, the ghost of Achilles strode off across a meadow full of asphodel, exulting over what I had said concerning the prowess of his son. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original Even so, hand in hand, shall we enter the Eternal Garden, and crown ourselves with imperishable asphodel!' Last Days of Pompeii And he who wore the crown of asphodels, Descending, at my door began to knock, And my soul sank within me, as in wells The waters sink before an earthquake's shock. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I have grazed upon the fields of asphodel. In Defense of Women Be laurel to the victor, And roses to the fair, And asphodel Elysian Let the hero wear; But lay the maiden lilies Upon their narrow biers — The lone grey company Before the pioneers. An Anthology of Australian Verse More particularly is this so in early June, when the slender asphodel Saint Bruno's lily, with its spike of white blossom, is in flower. The World Set Free Their attitude and aspect were the same, Alike their features and their robes of white; But one was crowned with amaranth, as with flame, And one with asphodels, like flakes of light. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hast thou again been stealing The heifers of Admetus in the sweet Meadows of asphodel? or Hera's girdle? The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Above the asphodel fields the mountains climb in rocky slopes to solitudes of stone and sunlight that curve round and join that wall of cliffs in one common skyline. The World Set Free |
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