"Dittany" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for her darling filled with grief, A stalk of dittany on Ida's crown Seeks out, and gathers, for his wound's relief, The flower of purple and the leaves of down. (To wounded wild-goats 'twas a plant well-known) This brings the Goddess, veiled in mist, and brews In a bright bowl a mixture of her own, ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... hint, and the like idea, Friends, had occurred to myself before. Truly if anything good befell He would be wanting, I know full well, Wanting to take to the togs once more. Nevertheless, while in these I'm vested, Ne'er shall you find me craven-crested, No, for a dittany look I'll wear, Aye and methinks it will soon be tested, Hark! how ...
— The Frogs • Aristophanes
... wood that is older than history I heard a lad sing, and I stilled me to learn; So rarely he lilted his long-forgot litany,— Fall, April; fall, April, in dew on our dearth! Bring balm, and bring poppy, bring deep sleepy dittany For Marian, our clear May, so long ...
— The New Morning - Poems • Alfred Noyes
... his vanquished head he reared, And with last looks his forest walks did view; Where sixty summers he had ruled the herd, And where sharp dittany now vainly grew: ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... covered with "cane brakes," and low brush wood, which renders it difficult to effect a passage across them. Cotton-wood, beech, maple, hickory, and white oak, are the trees in greatest abundance. Spice-wood, sassafras, and dittany, are also plenty. Of these a decoction is made, which some of the woods-people prefer to tea; but it is not in general repute. The paw-paw tree (annona triloba) produces a fruit somewhat resembling in taste and shape the fig-banana, but certainly much inferior to that delicious fruit. We saw several ...
— A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America • S. A. Ferrall |
