You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little ...sense knocked into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will bring you the lily that laughs, I will twine... with soft narcissus, the myrtle, sweet crocus, white violet, the purple hyacinth, and last, the rose, loved-of-love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sea frozen in a storm is the image which most nearly describes [Switzerland] to me. Whether you look up at its awful solitudes... or down where it rests its icy tongue on the valley, with the pink crocus blossoming on the very edge; whether you examine its blue and broken ice or draw away from its fearful crevasse, or think of its cold, defined, steady, and silent course, with the immense boulders on its bosom--wherever and whenever you see it, it is the miracle of nature, the wonder of the Alpine world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who comes into this country, and has come Where golden crocus and narcissus bloom,... Where the Great Mother, mourning for her daughter And beauty-drunken by the water Glittering among grey-leaved olive-trees, Has plucked a flower and sung her loss....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »