Asphodel

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Literary Fiction, Published 1800 -1900

Authors: Mary Elizabeth Braddon In Year : 1881

Book Language: English

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I. ' And she was fair as is the rose in May '
II. ' And this was gladly in the Eventide '
III. ' And Volatile, as ay was his usage '
IV. ' CURTEIS she was, discrete, AND DEBONAIRE '
V. ' Thou lovest me, that wot I wel certain '
VI. ' Love maketh all to gone misway '
VII. ' His Herte bathed in a Bath of Blisse '
VIII. ' God wote that worldly Joy is sone ago '
IX. ' Of Colour pale and dead was she '
X. ' And spending Silver had he right ynow '
XI. ' Yeve me my Deth, or that I have a Shame '
XII. ' And to the Dinner faste they hem spedde '
XIII ' After my Might ful fayne wold I you plese '
XIV. ' Love is a Thing, as any Spirit, free '
XV. ' Not for your Linage, ne for your Richesse '
XVI. ' No Man may alway have Prosperitee '
XVII. ' And in my Herte wondren I began '
XVIII. ' Love wol not be constreined by Maistrie '
XIX. ' I deme that hire herte was ful of wo '
XX. ' Al sodenly she swapt adown to Ground '
XXI. ' For Wele or Wo, for Carole, or for Daunce '
XXII. ' For I wol gladly yelden hire my Place '
XXIII. ' And COME agen, be it by Day or Night '
XXIV. ' Ay fleth the Time, it wol no Man abide '
XXV. ' But I wot best wher wringeth me my Sho '
XXVI. ' Forbid A Love and it is ten Times so wode '
XXVII. ' I may not don as any ploughman may'
XXVIII. ' Love is not old, as whan that it is new '
XXIX. ' I meane well, by God that sit above '
XXX. ' Ther was no Wight, to whom she durste plain '
XXXI. ' I wolde live in Pees, if that I might '
XXXII. ' For Love and not for Hate thou must be ded '
XXXIII. ' Is there no Grace ? Is there no Remedie ?'
XXXIV. ' Sens Love hath brought us to this piteous End '

Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while... Forget that her father, the renowned Sir Vernon Lawford, does not love her. To forget that, for some reason, nobody talks about her mother who traveled to the South of France and never returned. She can be a butcher's daughter from Oxford Street, she can control her friend's actions, she can fancy that she is in love with a man who does not even reveal his name. She returns home and faces the challenge of earning her father's love and carve a respectable place beside her beloved older half-sister. But what would she do when her past folly catch up with her? Would she find love and acceptance at last? - Summary by Stav Nisser.