...to an old legend, it is said to have sprung from the tears of Venus, when she wept over the body of Adonis : — " Alas the Paphian ! Fair Adonis slain...there blushing springs the rose, And where a tear has dropp'da wind-flower blows." Pliny tells us that the anemone is called " Windflower " because it never...

...Aifia xefi- ra ^e Tran-a TTOTI x$oj>i yiyverai dvQr). \ ii,u poSov TiKTd, ra Sf SaKpva rav dvffjuovav. Alas the Paphian ! fair Adonis slain ! Tears plenteous...his blood she pours amain. But gentle flowers are horn, and bloom around, From every drop that falls upon the ground : Where streams his blood, there...

...was transformed into roses, and the tears of the goddess herself into the anemone or " wind-flower." Alas the Paphian ! fair Adonis slain, Tears plenteous...flowers are born, and bloom around From every drop that pours upon the ground ; Where streams his blood, there blushing springs the rose, And, where a tear...

...Bion, in his epitaph on Adonis, makes the Anemone the offspring of the tears of the sorrowing Venus. " Alas the Paphian ! fair Adonis slain ! Tears plenteous...And where a tear has dropped, a Wind-flower blows." Rapin, in his poem, gives a somewhat similar version of the origin of the Anemone. He says: — " For...

...that the wild anemone or wind-flower grew from the tears shed by Venus over the grave of Adonis ? " But gentle flowers are born, and bloom around. From...And where a tear has dropped a wind-flower blows." I think it must be the wood-anemone that is referred to as the snowdrop in that bonnie old Scottish...

...pictures Venus wandering through the forests grief-stricken over the death of her youthful lover. " Alas, the Paphian ! fair Adonis slain ! Tears plenteous...And where a tear has dropped, a wind-flower blows." Indeed, in reading the poets ancient and modern for references to this favorite blossom, one realizes...

...pictures Venus wandering through the forests grief-stricken over the death of her youthful lover. " Alas, the Paphian ! fair Adonis slain ! Tears plenteous...And where a tear has dropped, a wind-flower blows." Indeed, in reading the poets ancient and modern for references to this favorite blossom, one realizes...

...poets pictures Venus wandering through the forests grief-stricken over the death of her youthful lover. "Alas, the Paphian ! fair Adonis slain ! Tears plenteous...his blood she pours amain ; But gentle flowers are bom and bloom around From every drop that falls upon the ground : Where streams his blood, there blushing...

...amain," and how " gentle flowers " were born to bloom at every drop that fell from her lovely eyes : " Where streams his blood, there blushing springs the...And where a tear has dropped, a wind-flower blows. " They are short-lived flowers ; the wind blows them open and wafts them away. Rapidly the fruit is...

...amain," and how " gentle flowers " were born to bloom at every drop that fell from her lovely eyes : " Where streams his blood, there blushing springs the rose, And where a tear has dropped, a Wind Flower blows." They are short-lived flowers; the wind blows them open and wafts them away. Rapidly...