crocus quotes

And onwards, as bells off San Salvador Salute the crocus lustres of the stars, In these poinsettia meadows of her tides.

- (Harold) Hart Crane
  White Buildings,'Voyages', pt.2.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final stage of affluent miserya crocus on a garbage heap.

-JohnWilliam Gardner
  In the NewYork Times, 9 Oct.

Her crocus dress she wore, lowcut, belongings on show.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.

Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.698^705.