"Asphodel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it was laid out on a mat; its arms mutely crossed, between its lips an asphodel; at the feet, a ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) • Herman Melville
... to consist of the Townships of Asphodel, Belmont and Methuen, Douro, Dummer, Galway, Harvey, Minden, Stanhope and Dysart, Otonabee, and Snowden, and the Village of Ashburnham, and any other surveyed Townships lying to the North ...
— The British North America Act, 1867 • Anonymous
... Beyond the Stars. All the silver bells that swing with the turning of the great ring of light which lies around that land were softly chiming; and the sound of their commotion went down like dew upon the golden ways of the city, and the long alleys of blossoming trees, and the meadows of asphodel, and the curving shores ...
— The Spirit of Christmas • Henry Van Dyke
... mid-noon: one silvery cloud 90 Had lost his way between the piney sides Of this long glen. Then to the bower they came, Naked they came to that smooth-swarded bower, And at their feet the crocus brake like fire, Violet, amaracus, and asphodel, 95 Lotos and lilies: and a wind arose, And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, This way and that, in many a wild festoon Ran riot, garlanding the gnarled boughs With bunch and berry and flower thro' and ...
— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson |
