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Show Daffodil in Ancient Myths The daffodil is a very ancient flower. We remember the old myth of Narcissus (plant family name for daffodil) who looked so long at his image in the limpid stream of Ar-cady Ar-cady that he was turned into a flower. flow-er. Many Greek and Roman poets have spoken of the narcissus, and it is believed that the flower which Virgil refers to in his Fifth Ecologue is the same narcissus poeticus which we grow, and which we admire so much. Milton. Shakespeare. Spencer and other early English poets speak of it |