all I had told him of his son, his gallant, glorious son." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "He, who wore the crown of asphodels, Descending, at my door began to knock." John Milton: "To embathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel." Edgar Allan Poe: "and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel" Alexander Pope: "Happy Souls who dwell In Yellow Meads of Asphodel, Or Amaranthine Bowers." Ezra Pound, "Canto XXI": "Danced there Athame, danced, and there Phaethusa/ With colour in the vein,/ Strong as with blood drink, once,/ With colour in the vein/ Red in the smoke-faint throat. Dis caught her up./ And the old man went on there/ beating his mule with an asphodel." Alfred Tennyson: "Others in Elysian valleys dwell, Resting weary limbs at last on beds of asphodel." Orville E. Watson: "see a river like Kokosing, in meadows sweet with asphodel" William Carlos Williams: "Asphodel, that greeny flower" Marie Laforêt: "Je t'ai donné mes bouquets d'asphodèles Oscar Wilde: "The heavy fields of scentless Asphodel, the loveless lips with which men kiss in hell"; "they sleep, they sleep, beneath the rocking trees where asphodel and yellow lotus twine" Dani Filth: "When the Sun goes out our powers/ Will extend throughout Heaven like Asphodel" Virginia Woolf: " But some were early infected by a germ said to be bred of the pollen of the asphodel" (describing the love of literature in Orlando) Notes References External links Asphodelaceae genera Asphodeloideae Garden plants