asphodels

The olive orchards of Sampaolo are just so many wildernesses of wild flowers: violets, anemones, narcissus; irises, white ones and purple ones; daffodils, which we call asphodels; hyacinths, tulips, arums, orchids -- oh, but a perfect riot of wild flowers.

The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883

We were confronted with an acre of bog asphodels; thousands of golden, flowering spears radiant in the sunshine.

Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale 2011

She WAS ethereal, sublimated by purity, as shy and modest as a violet, as fragile-slender as a lily, and her eyes, luminous and shrinking tender, were as asphodels on the sward of heaven.

THE PRINCESS 2010

We were confronted with an acre of bog asphodels; thousands of golden, flowering spears radiant in the afternoon sunshine.

Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale 2011

And if they drink turbid water, they recall, passing through fields of asphodels, past sorrows that sleep within them.

Happy Autumn Weekend! 2008

Now he has crowned the occasion, she thought, when his hand slowly fell, as if she had seen him let fall from his great height a wreath of violets and asphodels which, fluttering slowly, lay at length upon the earth.

To the Lighthouse 2002

The wall opposite the entry was a floor-to-ceiling artificial window with a holo of a springtime meadow on Earth featuring a grazing black stallion, a venerable tree with fresh leaves trembling in a breeze, and droves of cyclamen and asphodels blooming around a stone fence.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

A chestnut mare had joined the black stallion, and a long-legged colt was frolicking in the illusionary sunshine, trampling the asphodels.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

Baby donkeys with bulbous and uncertain legs munched among the asphodels.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

Trying to find solid mental ground and forget that hollow armor lying in the field of asphodels, he began to theorize.

Three Hearts and Three Lions Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1953