For the early summer months flowers of a somewhat later period will be selected, as, for example, the later Irises—lovely hardy flowers, the tall Asphodel A.
The Asphodel of the Greek poets, by some declared to be the Day Lily, is by others supposed to be the Narcissus Poeticus.
The poets, probably taking their cue from this, have celebrated the Asphodel in song as the flower of the immortals.
They are the classic flower, the Asphodel of Greece and Grecian song; the Asphodel through which the ghosts of Homer's heroes strode: as heroes' ghosts might stride even here.
I see the footprints of cattle, but they are marked as though the cattle were going to the asphodel meadow, not away from it.
It's a moot point whether Proserpine was gathering narcissus or asphodel when Pluto ran away with her," declared Mr. Stacey, offering Lilias a bouquet which a Greek nymph might have been pleased to accept.
I incline to asphodel myself, because of its immortal significance.
More particularly is this so in early June, when the slenderasphodel Saint Bruno's lily, with its spike of white blossom, is in flower.
Above the asphodel fields the mountains climb in rocky slopes to solitudes of stone and sunlight that curve round and join that wall of cliffs in one common skyline.
The Bog Asphodel has a tall, wiry flower-stalk, near the top of which you find a spike of orange-yellow flowers.
The leaves of the Bog Asphodel are like coarse grass.
The ancients planted the Asphodel around the tombs of the deceased, in the belief that the seeds of this plant, and those of the Mallow, afforded nourishment to the dead.
The Asphodelis the flower which flourished in the Elysian Fields.
The Asphodel was held sacred to Bacchus, probably because he visited the infernal regions, and rescued his mother Semele from the kingdom of the departed.
The edible roots of the Asphodel were also wont to be laid as offerings in the tombs of the departed, and, according to Hesiod, they served as food for the poor.
Accordingly we find that the Greeks planted Asphodeland Mallows round graves.
Between them lies the landscape, a medley first of brakefern and asphodel and feathering acanthus and blue spikes of bugloss; then a white farm in the middle distance, roofed with the reddest tiles and sheltered by a velvety umbrella pine.
When they had passed the waters of Oceanus and the rock Leucas, they came to the gates of the Sun and the land of dreams, whereon they reached the meadow of asphodel where dwell the souls and shadows of men that can labour no more.
I saw Minos with his golden sceptre passing sentence on 568 the dead; Orion also, driving before him over a meadow full of asphodel the ghosts of the wild beasts whom he had slain upon the mountains.
I pity you, Milanion, for when thou dost race with me, the goal is assuredly the meadows of asphodel near where sit Pluto and Persephone on their gloomy thrones.
The asphodel bent under her flying feet, and the golden flowers of the Fiori Maggio were swept aside as she fled.
His hives stood empty and silent, and no more did "the murmuring of innumerable bees" drowse the ears of the herds who watched their flocks cropping the red clover and the asphodel of the meadows.
When they had passed the waters of Oceanus and the rock Leucas, they came to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams, whereon they reached the meadow of asphodel where dwell the souls and shadows of them that can labour no more.
After him I saw huge Orion in a meadow full of asphodel driving the ghosts of the wild beasts that he had killed upon the mountains, and he had a great bronze club in his hand, unbreakable for ever and ever.
On leaving the "albergo," he catches sight of an asphodel cluster in a glass at a window, and finds in it an attestation of the genuineness of the metal brooch.
In passing, he sees nodding down at him from one of the windows a cluster of white, asphodelblossoms which had been placed in a water-glass, and he feels that this sight is an attestation of the genuineness of his new possession.
The noonday ghost hour was over, and in the form of a butterfly, a winged messenger had come up from the asphodel meadows of Hades to admonish the departed one to return.
An asphodel cluster of white bell-flowers seems, as flower of the lower world, significant enough for him to pluck and carry away.
With the promise to be at the same place again on the morrow, she takes leave of him, after she has obtained the asphodel cluster.
As she rose and stretched forth her slender hand, he gave her the asphodel cluster, but was careful not to touch her fingers.
They know not how much more the half is than the whole, nor what great advantage there is in mallow and asphodel [1301].
The tale is in Hesiod: 'He would run over the fruit of the asphodel and not break it; nay, he would run with his feet upon wheaten ears and not hurt the fruit.
No man knew better than the trainer that no trick would conquer Lycon this second time; and Glaucon the Fair might be nearer the fields of Asphodel than the pleasant hills by Athens.
Thus, meadows of asphodel are prepared for the happier dead; and even Orion, a hunter among the mountains in his lifetime, pursues the ghosts of beasts in these asphodel meadows after death.
Nevertheless, the roots of the asphodel were thought by the ancient Greeks to be edible, and they were therefore laid in tombs as food for the dead.
The Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) grows in bogs, and bears a spike of yellow, star-like flowers.
The pretty little Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) shall first receive our attention because botanists are not yet in agreement as to its correct position among the monocotyledonous plants.
Then, sighing, Miss Asphodel went languidly on her way.
He was roused from his troubled thoughts by seeing Miss Asphodel Vincent coming along the walk towards him.
He was consumed by a hopeless passion for Miss Asphodel Vincent, a young lady with a small fortune of about L400 per annum, to whom Mr. Stork was guardian and trustee.
For the moment he was bewildered, oblivious that the old personality of Asphodel had passed into his book and that the new personality of Poppy had invaded Asphodel.
The leaves are ranged on each other's back (equitant) as in the Marsh Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum, t.
Another spray of that awful asphodel fell fluttering through the air in front of my face.
You shall pluckasphodel in the meadows this side of Erebus," Arthur was chanting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asphodel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
