asphodels

• “The olive orchards of Sampaolo are just so many wildernesses of wild flowers: violets, anemones, narcissus; irises, white ones and purple ones; daffodils, which we call asphodels; hyacinths, tulips, arums, orchids -- oh, but a perfect riot of wild flowers.”

  The Lady Paramount

• “We were confronted with an acre of bog asphodels; thousands of golden, flowering spears radiant in the afternoon sunshine.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale

• “We were confronted with an acre of bog asphodels; thousands of golden, flowering spears radiant in the sunshine.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale

• “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 PRINCESS

• “And if they drink turbid water, they recall, passing through fields of asphodels, past sorrows that sleep within them.”

  Happy Autumn Weekend!

• “Now he has crowned the occasion, she thought, when his hand slowly fell, as if she had seen him let fall from his great height a wreath of violets and asphodels which, fluttering slowly, lay at length upon the earth.”

  To the Lighthouse

• “A chestnut mare had joined the black stallion, and a long-legged colt was frolicking in the illusionary sunshine, trampling the asphodels.”

  Perseus Spur

• “The wall opposite the entry was a floor-to-ceiling artificial window with a holo of a springtime meadow on Earth featuring a grazing black stallion, a venerable tree with fresh leaves trembling in a breeze, and droves of cyclamen and asphodels blooming around a stone fence.”

  Perseus Spur

• “Baby donkeys with bulbous and uncertain legs munched among the asphodels.”

  My Family and Other Animals

• “Trying to find solid mental ground and forget that hollow armor lying in the field of asphodels, he began to theorize.”

  Three Hearts and Three Lions

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