Literary notes about amaranthine (AI summary)
The term "amaranthine" is often employed in literature to evoke a sense of eternal beauty and unfading glory, serving both as a literal and metaphorical marker of immortality. Writers use it to describe landscapes and natural settings imbued with a celestial quality—imagine enchanted bowers and blooming meadows that seem to defy the decay of time [1, 2]. In other contexts, the word adorns crowns and wreaths that symbolize noble virtues or heroic sacrifice, suggesting that such honor is as everlasting as the amaranthine bloom itself [3, 4, 5]. Additionally, the term frequently appears in discussions of abstract ideals, with virtue depicted as the sole amaranthine flower in a transient world, thus reinforcing its association with perennial beauty and moral constancy [6, 7].
- There, amid amaranthine bowers, Where God's own glory seemed to shine, She saw, on beds of golden flowers, Her dear departed ones recline.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various - Sit down under this amaranthine bower and rest yourselves."
— from Adventures in the Land of Canaan by R. L. (Robert Lee) Berry - Ev'n now he claims the amaranthine wreath, With scenes that glow, with images that breathe!
— from Poems by Samuel Rogers - How must he smile on this dull world beneath, Fevered with swift renown— He, with the martyr's amaranthine wreath Twining the victor's crown!"
— from Campfire and BattlefieldAn Illustrated History of the Campaigns and Conflicts of the Great Civil War by O. O. (Oliver Otis) Howard - and not at mine, The angel with the amaranthine wreath, Pausing, descended, and with voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like death.
— from The ArenaVolume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by Various - The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.—
— from Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou - “The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue: the only treasure, truth.
— from Satanstoe; Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony by James Fenimore Cooper