A time of happiness and prosperity. Halcyon is the Greek for a
kingfisher, compounded of hals (the sea) and kuo (to
brood on). The ancient Sicilians believed that the kingfisher laid its
eggs and incubated for fourteen days, before the winter solstice, on
the surface of the sea, during which time the waves of the sea were
always unruffled.
Dryden.
More on Halcyon Days from Infoplease:
- Walt Whitman: Halcyon Days - Not from successful love alone, Nor wealth, nor honor'd middle age, nor victories of politics or war; But as life wanes, and all the turbulent passion
- Halcyon Days - Halcyon Days A time of happiness and prosperity. Halcyon is the Greek for a kingfisher, compounded ...
- Halcyon Days - Halcyon Days A time of happiness and prosperity. Halcyon is the Greek for a kingfisher, compounded ...
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- Walt Whitman: Out of May's Shows Selected - Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms; Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green; The eternal, exhaustless freshness of
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