 There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name. But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to...  Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum - Page 1463by John Claudius Loudon - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Annie Bullen - Flowers - 2004 - 94 pages
...grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men fingers call them. There, on the pendant boughs her coronet Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When...weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook ..." Shakespeare chose flowers whose meaning he knew the Elizabethans would understand. Crow-flowers... | |
 | John Boydell, Josiah Boydell, William Shakespeare - Art - 2004 - 100 pages
...how it steals away! My father, in his habit as he liv'd! Hamlet, ACT IV, SCENE VII QUEEN. Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Cymbeline, ACT II, SCENE II IACHIMO. Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed, fresh lily. And whiter... | |
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