"Silene" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... jam et jam Silene, Pocula impleatis plene, Ope jam adiutus vestra Domum, feram e fenestra. AEdes vertunt jam rotundae, Et succedant res secundae: O Pampine! tibi bibo, Bibe, vale! ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 • Various
... in his mind with all the magical effects of nature's renewal. He discovered the liquid light of her dark eyes in the rippling darkness of the streams; the lilies recalled the faintly tinted paleness of her cheeks; the silene roses, scattered throughout the hedges, called forth the remembrance of the young maiden's rosy lips, and the vernal odor of the leaves appeared to him like an emanation of her graceful and ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet |
