Ye Narcissus or Daffodyl Flowere: Containing Hys Historie and Culture, & C., with a Compleat Liste of All the Species and Varieties Known to Englyshe Amateurs
Ye Narcissus or Daffodyl Flowere: Containing Hys Historie and Culture, & C., with a Compleat Liste of All the Species and Varieties Known to Englyshe Amateurs
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...sea of Daffodils is a sight never to be forgotten. Wordsworth has for ever fixed their beauty in masses for us in his 'Ode to Daffodils, ' without which our garland of poesy would be most incomplete. 'I Wandkb'd lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...sea of Daffodils is a sight never to be forgotten. Wordsworth has for ever fixed their beauty in masses for us in his 'Ode to Daffodils, ' without which our garland of poesy would be most incomplete. 'I Wandkb'd lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden Daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 'Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee: --A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company; I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought 'For oft when on my couch I lie, In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude, And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the Daffodils.'" Herrick's lament that the Daffodil blossoms fade too soon away has been questioned by more than one author, but that his observation is but too true is a fact well known to all who grow the loveliest of all the new varieties of Daffodil, of which some are strangely pale, some double-ruffled, and Narcissi, surely the most fragile flower ever grown, that seem fainting away, evaporating into air, as you look at them. Is it moral, by the way, to make so sweet a flower as our English Daffodil play these pranks? In humbling the tulip and bringing it down from its gaudy pride to mere dingy rags and strips, there is something that is not altogether displeasing. And in the attenuation of the Narcissus to such die-away languor there is a becoming consonance with myth;...
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