Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden – Walter Crane

“O,PROSERPINA, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou lett’st fall From Dis’s wagon! 3. daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; 4. violets, dim But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes 5 Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength, a malady Most…