 | Elizabeth Kent - 1823 - 498 pàgines
...The Naiades, lamenting the death of Narcissus, prepare a funeral pile, but his body is missing : " Instead whereof a yellow flower was found, With tufts of white about the button crown'd." SANDYS'S OVID. " What first inspired a bard of old to sing Narcissus pining o'er the untainted spring... | |
 | 1832 - 524 pàgines
...this flower or not. According to fable, the Naiades lamenting the death of Narcissus— Instead of him a yellow flower was found With tufts of white about the button crown'd. TRANS. OF OVID. Thursday, Feb. 9. Si. Apolfania, Fir. Afar. A, D. 249. Moon's 1st Quarter, 13m. after... | |
 | Martin Doyle - 1835 - 198 pàgines
...the deceased was changed, was yellow, and to prove this, has sent me the following quotation : — " Instead whereof a yellow flower was found, With tufts of white about the button crown'd." sokil d'or, a much-admired Narcissus, is yellow; and as there are many shades between yellow and white,... | |
 | Floral poesy - 1875 - 360 pàgines
...bears his name. When the Naiads had prepared the funeral pile for Narcissus, his body was missing : ' ' Instead whereof a yellow flower was found, With tufts of white about the button crowned ;" and ever since is seen " Narcissus fair, As o'er the fabled fountain hanging still." The... | |
 | Missouri. State Horticultural Society - 1890 - 482 pàgines
...the sorrowing Naiads, after preparing a funeral pile, searched for the youth, his body was missing. Instead whereof a yellow flower was found, With tufts of white about the bottom crowned. And ever since has the fair Narcissus bloomed sadly over the fabled! mountain and the... | |
 | Cyril Bailey - 1926 - 616 pàgines
...funeral pile prepar'd, a hearse they brought To fetch his body, which they vainly sought. In stead whereof a yellow flower was found, With tufts of white about the button crown'd. (iii. 499-510, tr. Sandys.) Among the peasants of his native place, Sulmona, Ovid still passes for... | |
 | 1890 - 480 pàgines
...the sorrowing Naiads, after preparing a funeral pile, searched for the youth, his body was missing. Instead whereof a yellow flower was found, With tufts of white about the bottom crowned. And ever since has the fair Narcissus bloomed sadly over the fabled mountain and the... | |
 | 1828 - 484 pàgines
...was this flower or not. According to fable the Naides lamenting the death of Narcissus Instead of him a yellow flower was found, With tufts of white about the button crown 'd. Oviu. The Mfxereon, an elegant shrub, in mild seasons, next begins to be in blossom, the... | |
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... notice of some of the greatest poets. The story told at length in Ovid's Metamorphoses, of the transformation of Narcissus into a flower, is too well known to need, and too long to admit of, insertion. The Naiades, lamenting the death of Narcissus,... 