The Lily Of The Valley
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781419170089
Subjects: Classic fiction; Literature: Classics; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Classics
First sentence: To what genius fed on tears shall we some day owe that most touching of all elegies,-the tale of tortures borne silently by souls whose tender roots find stony ground in the domestic soil, whose earliest buds are torn apart by rancorous hands, whose flowers are touched by frost at the moment of their blossoming?