spleen-worts

Updated: July 20, 2026

Here at Mentone there is none of this; the idyllic is the true note, and Theocritus is still alive. We do not often scale these altitudes, but keep along the terraced glades by the side of olive-shaded streams. The violets, instead of peeping shyly from hedgerows, fall in ripples and cascades over mossy walls among maidenhair and spleen-worts.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series