Proserpina
Britishnoun
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In this version of the tale, Orfeo and Euridice become pawns in the hands of capricious godly and allegorical characters: Venus and Amore, Pluto and Proserpina and personifications of Jealousy and Suspicion.
From New York Times
Her faithful cover of Proserpina, one of the last songs McGarrigle wrote, is even more acute, an anguished wail of longing set to plangent piano and violin.
From The Guardian
One day, weary of labor, Proserpina called these fair playmates to join her and spend a merry day gathering flowers.
From Project Gutenberg
Thoreau was ever ready in thought of Proserpina gathering flowers.
From Project Gutenberg
Thus Trimalchio says, 'I threw thy Cerberus a sleepy morsel, And paid thy Charon for my waftage over, And I have a golden sprig for my Proserpina.
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