"Chaliced" Quotes from Famous Books
... The golden-chaliced crocus burns; The long narcissus-blades appear; The cone-beaked hyacinth returns, ... — The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... the fields are laughing; now the maids Take their pastime; laugh the leafy glades: Now the summer days are blooming, And the flowers their chaliced lamps for love illuming. Fruit-trees blossom; woods grow green again; Winter's rage is past: O ye young men, With the May-bloom shake off sadness! Love is luring you to join ... — Wine, Women, and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse • Various |