Chilled by the rain, the tender lotus sank: She filled its place upon the streamlet's bank.
Thus the sweet beauties of the lotus shine When bees festoon it in a graceful line; And, though the tangled weeds that crown the rill Cling o'er it closely, it is lovely still.
To that sweet face, though scorched by rays from heaven, Still was the beauty of the lotus given, Yet, worn by watching, round those orbs of light A blackness gathered like the shades of night.
Less dazzling pure the lovely lotus shines Flecked by the thronging bees in dusky lines.
Fair as the lotus fibres, soft as they, In these stern vows she passed her night and day.
Between the partings of fair UMA'S vest Came hasty glimpses of a lovely breast: So closely there the sweet twin hillocks rose, Scarce could the lotus in the vale repose.
From hislotus eyes Flashed out the rapture of his proud surprise.
Thy locks are hanging loosely o'er thy brow, Thine ear is shaded by no lotus now.
Sure the soft lotus at her birth had lent Dear UMA'S form its gentle element; But gold, commingled with her being, gave That will so strong, so beautifully brave.
There from her trunk the elephant had poured A lily-scented stream to cool her lord, While the fond love-bird by the silver flood Gave to his mate the tasted lotus bud.
With open palms the hands were firmly pressed, As though a lotus lay upon his breast.
We crossed a stone bridge spanning a lotus pond, and walked up an inclined way paved with granite, a flight of steps leading to the handsome main gate which faces a strikingly carved two-storied structure.
In the lower gallery there is, beneath every Buddha, a representation of a man, on either side of which are groups of three figures, each bearing lotus flowers and fans.
Here are placed the usual bronze ornaments, consisting of a stork, an incense burner, and a vase of bronze lotus flowers.
The moat supplies drinking water for the city and is covered with the purple lotus blossom.
Eighteen cases or parcels, containing Buddhas, chimeras, and vases, without mentioning the last lotus that I carry away tied up in a pink cluster.
I throw the poor lotus into the boundless waste of waters, making them my best excuses for consigning them, natives of Japan, to a grave so solemn and so vast.
There were lotus in our vases, beautifully colored lotus, the last of the season, I verily believe.
At some of the tanks where the lotus grows in profusion in Ceylon, I tasted the seeds enclosed in the torus of the flowers, and found them white and delicately-flavoured, not unlike the small kernel of the pine cone of the Apennines.
Thus would the lotus women of India be in truth such that of each it might be said: “She walks delicately like a swan and her voice is low and musical as the note of the cuckoo, calling softly in the summer day.
On a night of warmth and beauty they went to the banks of a pond which sparkled with lotus blooms.
Said the evil-hearted Kaurava: “O princess of Panchala with fair lotus eyes, thou hast been staked and lost fairly at the game of hazard.
Its eyes were like to lotus blooms, and its form like to a flame; and it adored Krishna and entered into his body.
O thou of lotus eyes, the flame of desire burneth within me.
The maiden grew to be beautiful and shapely like to a Celestial; her eyes had burning splendour, and were fair as lotus leaves; she resembled a golden image; she had exceeding sweetness and grace.
From birth she has had a dark beauty spot like to a lotus between her fair eyebrows.
Then Sita hid herself, and her face was like to a lotus bloom among lotus blooms.
A creation myth which teaches the absolute supremacy of Vishnu tells that at the beginning Brahma sprang from a lotus issuing from the navel of the Preserver, while Shiva came from his forehead.
He hung his head like the dew-laden lotus bloom; he could claim nor lineage or high rank, as he believed, for he regarded the charioteer of Anga as his sire.
The master of Fair View told himself that there was infection in this lotus air of Virginia.
When the lotuswas all plucked and Lethe drained, then cards were born into the world," he said sententiously.
Of the few leguminous plants which are in any degree suitable for water-meadows, Lotus corniculatus major, Trifolium hybridum, and T.
Long ago the Bodisat was born to a forest life as the Genius of a tree standing near a certain lotus pond.
The latter accordingly decked the gloriously beautiful chariot with all its trappings, and harnessed to it four state horses of the Sindhi breed, and white as the leaves of the white lotus flower.
And you I see with lotus wreaths, and water-lilies in your hands, eating lotus stalks, soiled with dirt, and dripping with water and mud.
All the rice-milk flowed into the vessel, like water from a lotus leaf, and filled the vessel full.
The text is given by Burnouf in the Lotus de la Bonne Loi, p.
The lotus blossom in Egypt was not only a sacred emblem, but also an objet de luxe.
We know something of the conventional and symbolical embroideries of Nineveh, which are quite unlike those of India, except in the adoption of the lotus for decoration.
The lotus was the accepted emblem of the sun, and reduced to a many-leaved radiating pattern may be found as an architectural ornament on the outside of the Buddhist "topes," of which the models are on the staircase of the British Museum.
On an Egyptian mural painting are seen parties of men snaring ducks among papyrus andlotus plants.
The cone, the bead, the daisy, the wave, the lotus under water, are all shown on this fragment.
The daisy belongs to Assyria as the lotus to Egypt.
Assyrian use of the lotusand cone, and the embroidered garment of a king from one of the sculptures in low relief (Plate 1).
I have spoken of the lotus as a naturalistic pattern.
The connection between Indian and Egyptian early art appears to have existed only in their use of the lotus as an emblem and a constant decoration; but their manner of employing it was characteristically different.
Birdwood's authority for believing that, though the actual lotuswas a native of India, and carried thence to Egypt, its decorative use as a pattern was Egyptian, and so returned to India.
The lotus is almost entirely lost as a native growth in India, and is fast disappearing in Egypt.
In the India Museum we may see the "wave" motive converted into a lotus pattern by rolling the long stems, and filling up the spaces between with the full-faced blossom.
One of these sheets of water--or rather the streamlet into which it narrows at one end--is completely overgrown with white lotus flowers; and a sight more exquisitely beautiful cannot be imagined.
This field of radiant lotus blossoms, and the sombre and solemn waringin avenue, contrasting glories, seem to me to be the crowning beauties of the Buitenzorg garden.
This flower as it appears relieved on a blue ground in the later mosque lamps is identical in drawing with the lotus that we see so frequently in Indian and Chinese art.
First, the true columnar kohl-pots, spreading out at the top in the form of a lotus capital.
A large rosette cut in low relief, representing a full-blown lotus flower, covers nearly the whole of the surface.
Such an arrangement may be skilfully made use of to obtain a blend of colours on the petals of a lotus or other flower.
The Horror in the Jungle Was it a dream the nightedlotus brought?
The Black Lotus In that dead citadel of crumbling stone Her eyes were snared by that unholy sheen, And curious madness took me by the throat, As of a rival lover thrust between.
The seed of the lotus is a narcotic of a mild description, and it is carefully gathered when ripe and eaten by the natives.
The lotus seeds, which they devour greedily, are a very good substitute for filberts, and are slightly narcotic.
The lotus is seen in two varieties in Ceylon--the pink and the white.
These birds are delicious eating, but I seldom fire at them, as they are generally among the lotus plants in such deep water that I dare not venture to get them on account of crocodiles.
The Lotus is sometimes engraved on a seal, always in the hand of a god, and with other Egyptian elements it is frequently found on the ivories and bronze dishes from Nimrud.
In the top left-hand corner we have an ivory plaque upon which is figured an Egyptian king in standing posture, grasping a lotus plant about his own height with his left hand.
In many towns is a sacred tank or reservoir, so entirely covered withlotus and other plants that the water cannot be seen.
Circe's cup has here the effect ascribed to the lotus in Odyssey ix.
Now whosoever of them did eat the honey-sweet fruit of the lotus had no more wish to bring tidings nor to come back, but there he chose to abide with the lotus-eating men, ever feeding on the lotus and forgetful of his homeward way.
Transformation Into A Lotus [From the Papyrus of Paqrer (see Naville, op.
Transformation Into A Lotus [From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No.
Wreaths of lotus are on the arms and the bosom of thy sister, dwelling in thy heart, sitting beside thee.
It has been heard of old that all this universe proceeded from the lotus of the navel of the Lord; hence is it established that be has a body, for how can there be a navel without a body?
In the temple-palaces of Egypt, one of the regular architectural members, the sustaining pier, is often systematically wrought in the actual likeness of a conventionalized cluster of lotus stems, with lotus flowers for the capital.
Born in such a race and reared in such a race, thou hast come from one happy state to another like a lotus transferred from one lake to another.
O thou of eyes like lotus leaves, I desire to know thee who art free from all faults!
And thereat, Radha adopted, according to the ordinance, that child of celestial form and divine origin, and possessed of the splendour of the filaments of the lotus and furnished with excellent grace.
As soon as that everlasting Being was engaged in meditation for the re-creation of the Universe, a lotus flower instantaneously came into existence from his navel, and the four-faced Brahma came out of that navel-lotus.
On her breast, set in a ring of gold make like a twisted lotus stalk, she wore the strange Jewel of Seven Stars which held words to command the God of all the worlds.
Round the neck it was delicately embroidered in pure gold with tiny sprays of sycamore; and round the feet, similarly worked, was an endless line of lotus plants of unequal height, and with all the graceful abandon of natural growth.
Immediately to the north of this row of imperial palace buildings, and just outside the north gate, there is an artificial mound called Coal Hill, made of the dirt which was removed to make the Lotus Lakes.
The first is a tall, three-story building at the head of that magnificent Lotus Lake.
Of course he wanted some, and as I crossed the beautiful marble bridge that spans the lotus lake, I saw anchored near by three small steam launches which had evidently been used a good deal.
Can the Moon tell the Lotus of her love when the Gate of Heaven is shut and the clouds gather for the rains?
