 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 ;...  The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 70by William Shakespeare - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - 1997 - 108 pages
...sense of sexually attractive bodies which haunt the minds of lovers. 208 O Prosperina, For the flower now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon!...in his strength - a malady Most incident to maids. (IV, i, 116-25) And in A Midsummer Night's Dream Helena moves from mythology to fabled beasts and on... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Simon Dunmore - 1997 - 132 pages
...come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim, 10 But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath;...a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips, and 15 The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. O, these I lack, To make... | |
 | A. B. Taylor - 2000 - 240 pages
...de Cadmos et Harmonie (Paris 1991), p. 79. CHAPTER g The Winter's Tale: Ovid transformed AD Nuttall O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted,...malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips, and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. O, these I lack, To make you garlands... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 pages
...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,...ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength. (116-24) This evocative passage associates Perdita with Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres, stolen away... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 436 pages
...spring that might Become your time of day; [to Mopsa and the other Girls] and yours and yours, That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing:...strength, a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and 100 no 4,4 THE WINTER S TALE The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one!... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...frighted, thou let'st fall / From Dis's waggon! daffodils, /That come befare the swallow dares, and take /The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim,...malady / Most incident to maids); bold oxlips and /The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, / Con mi temeridad característica, af1rmo que Perdita habla en... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 344 pages
...frightened girl, but she adds daffodils, primroses, oxlips, and other flowers not mentioned by Ovid: O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted,...oxlips, and The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flow'r-de-luce being one. O, these I lack To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend To strew him... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 pages
...sweetness; and she concludes with a touch of passionate sentiment, which melts into the very heart: O Proserpina! For the flowers now, that, frighted,...malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips, and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack To make you garlands... | |
 | Jennifer C. Vaught - 2008 - 264 pages
...particularly to the loss of her birthright through the shepherdess' inclusion of the phrase, "crown imperial": O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted,...malady Most incident to maids): bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. O, these I lack. To make you garlands... | |
 | 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,...malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips, and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. O, these I lack, To make you garlands... | |
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