 O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From 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...  Calendar - Page 316by University of Calcutta - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...dance and passionately delights in flowers: . . . 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, pale primroses, That die unmarried ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...after the goddess, is imitative of the bird's call. Phoebe is the ninth moon of Saturn. О Proserpina! For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodills, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,... | |
 | Paul K. Saint-Amour - Law - 2003 - 306 pages
...goes to bed with 'Sun, And with him rises weeping. 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 Cytheraea's breath: pale primroses That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Art - 2005 - 344 pages
...girl, but she adds daffodils, primroses, oxlips, and other flowers not mentioned by Ovid: O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall...than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength - a malady Most... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 472 pages
...she concludes with a touch of passionate sentiment, which melts into the very heart: O Proserpina! For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall...than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most... | |
 | Christopher J. Cobb - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 312 pages
...that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon! daffadils, 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, The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds (The flow'r-de-luce being one). O, these I... | |
 | Mary Ellen Lamb, Karen Bamford - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 292 pages
...a girl's mouth when Perdita herself invokes her antecedent Lost Girl, Proserpina: "O Proserpina, / For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall / From Dis's waggon !"( I Vi v. 11 6-18). 15 This strangely clumsy, cumbersome reference links Perdita even more firmly... | |
 | Jennifer C. Vaught - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 264 pages
...of her birthright through the shepherdess' inclusion of the phrase, "crown imperial": O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall...than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength (a malady Most... | |
 | András Horn - 2008 - 210 pages
...that, frighted, thou letst fall From Dis's wagon!— daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim,...than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength— a malady Most... | |
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