Vick's Magazine, Volume 9James Vick, 1886 - Floriculture |
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Page 248 - Emerged at length, no trace hath she Of that dark hour of destiny, Still silvery sweet — Persephone. The greater world may near the less, And draw it through her weltering shade, But not one biding trace impress Of all the darkness that she made ; The greater soul that draweth thee Hath left his shadow plain to see On thy fair face, Persephone ! Demeter sighs, but sure 'tis well The wife should love her destiny : They part, and yet, as legends tell, She mourns her lost Persephone ; While chant...
Page 248 - saith she; " And doth our daylight dazzle thee, My love, my child Persephone? " What moved thee, daughter, to forsake Thy fellow-maids that fatal morn, And give thy dark lord power to take Thee living to his realm forlorn ? " Her lips reply without her will, As one addressed who slumbereth still — " The daffodil, the daffodil...
Page 195 - The specimens tested were rectangular in outline, and from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. These were dried in a water bath (temp.
Page 118 - The island is well watered. There are about 100 rivers, which take their rise in the mountains, and run, commonly with great rapidity, to the sea, on both sides of the island. None of them are navigable, except for boats. Black River is the deepest, and has the greatest current.
Page 248 - Mid shades of heroes dread to see ; Among the dead she breathes alone, Persephone — Persephone ! Or seated on the Elysian hill She dreams of earthly daylight still, And murmurs of the daffodil. A voice in Hades soundeth clear, The shadows mourn and flit below ; It cries —
Page 84 - The hole destined to receive a shade or fruit tree should be at least three feet in diameter and two feet deep. It then should be partially filled with good surface soil, upon which the tree should stand, so that its roots could extend naturally according to their original growth. Good fine loam should be sifted through and over them, and they should not be permitted to come in contact with decaying matter, or coarse, unfermented manure. The tree should be set as deeply in the soil as it stood when...
Page 248 - What ailed the meadow that it shook ? What ailed the air of Sicily ? She wondered by the brattling brook, And trembled with the trembling lea. " The coal-black horses rise — they rise...
Page 248 - O light, light, light!" she cries, " farewell; The coal-black horses wait for me. O shade of shades, where I must dwell, Demeter, mother, far from thee ! Ah, fated doom that I fulfil! Ah, fateful flower beside the rill! The daffodil, the daffodil! " What ails her that she comes not home ? Demeter seeks her far and wide, And gloomy-browed doth ceaseless roam From many a morn till eventide. " My life, immortal though it be, Is nought...
Page 23 - Arts, Inventions, Manufactures, Products and Resources of the United States of America, will open at Earl's Court, Kensington, London, England, on the first day of May next.
Page 290 - And still we gaze, and still the wonder grows, How one small head can carry all he knows.