Naïad nymphs and Dryads wore Garments of sable tinge, with streaming hair.
The Dryads in dismay at the loss of their companion and at seeing the pride of the forest laid low, went in a body to Ceres, all clad in garments of mourning, and invoked punishment upon Erisichthon.
The three last named were immortal, but the wood-nymphs, called Dryads or Hamadryads, were believed to perish with the trees which had been their abode and with which they had come into existence.
Often had the Dryads danced round it hand in hand.
The Nymphs andDryads never met to dance, without making me one of the party; for I was dedicated to the God of Love, and everything within me expressed the sentiment.
Among the Dryadswas one who affected always to chuse me for her partner; she never failed to smile at me sweetly, to squeeze my hand, and blush afterwards with all the graces of modesty.
Nor have the dryads and the fauns been frighted away for good.
They say, too, that rivers swelled with their own tears; and the Naiads and Dryads had mourning garments of dark colour, and dishevelled hair.
There are dim nooks the Dryads know, And we can hide in hawthorn-bowers, And rest where rosy blossoms blow.
When I think of this dreams of dryads that troop down from the hillsides and stand, slender and adorable jewel-weeds, where the cool springs ooze from beneath the gravelly hill, do not seem in the least absurd or improbable.
While these things happen I think I can see thedryads quiver with delight and their jewels dance and flash, living creatures rather than gems.
At noon, when the sun shines direct into the marshy glade, the dryads have gone back into their trees for a noonday nap and the jewel-weeds are but weeds after all, though beautiful ones.
No wonder the other creatures of the glade adore these slim green dryads of the swamp.
The day that Anne of Austria had selected for the lottery was a decisive moment; the king had not been near his mother for a couple of days; Madame, after the great scene of the Dryads and Naiads, was sulking by herself.
That question must be asked of the Dryads," replied the comte; "the Dryads inhabit the forest, as your royal highness is aware.
I should not be astonished if he were, for he seems to be on very good terms with the dryads of Fontainebleau.
Gone were the fairies from the meadows, gone the dryads from the woods.
The Pipes of Pan were calling, and up in the aisles of the hills moonbeams slyly sought and found bare-limbed dryads darting from the eagerness of wooing fauns.
Old Pipes had never, to his knowledge, seen a Dryad tree, but he knew there were such trees on the hill-sides and the mountains, and that Dryads lived in them.
The sumptuous paven moss Is spread for Dryads sleep; And list ten thousand thousand spruce Lift up their voice to God-- We can a little understand, Born of the self-same sod.
Those dryadsof the wood, that some Call the wild hyacinths, now are come, And hold their revels in a night Of emerald flecked with candle-light.
Why should his impoverished Olympian theology be imposed upon her, and all her pretty dryads and silly fauns, all her harpies and chimeras, be frowned upon and turned into black devils?
There are many cases in Mr. Lawson's book of the malefical effect upon the Dryads of cutting down the trees whose spirit they are.
Pan commands, Oft as the Delian king [P] with Sirius holds 70 The central heavens, the father of the grove Commands his Dryads over your abodes To spread their deepest umbrage.
Behold, the Balance in the sky Swift on the wintry scale inclines: To earthy caves the Dryads fly, And the bare pastures Pan resigns.
How gladly, while my musing footsteps rove Round the cool orchard or the sunny lawn, Awaked I stop, and look to find What shrub perfumes the pleasant wind, Or what wild songster charms the Dryads of the grove!
Fauns and Dryads peeped laughing from among their stems, and gorgeous birds, tethered by unseen threads, fluttered and sang among their branches.
On he paced solemnly, while the whole theatre resounded to his heavy tread, and the Fauns and Dryads fled in terror.
Look, now, at these fauns anddryads among the shrubs upon the stage, pausing in startled wonder at the first blast of music which proclaims the exit of the goddess from her temple.
How the couching dryads seem To root themselves as in a dream, And the naiads, wan and whist, To melt into an evening mist!
On the high hill No ivory dryads play, Silver and still Sinks the sad autumn day.
The dryads peer from the thicket as she passes by, and the brown fauns smile strangely at her when she comes near them.
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