Demeter, Ceres, personifications of summer

Public‐domain character

Public‐domain bibliography

• • “To Demeter,” two of the Homeric hymns, ca. 6th to 7th centuries B.C.E.

    • Homer’s Hymn to Ceres, Translated into English Verse, trans. Richard Hole, 1781. (HathiTrust)

    • “Hymn to Demeter,” trans. Andrew Lang, Ceres and Persephone: A Child Play … with the Hymn to Demeter, 1902. (HathiTrust)

  • The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, 1623. Also Juno and Iris.

  • “Psyche Propitiating Ceres,” Last Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1862. (Internet Archive) (HathiTrust)

  • “The Sorrow of Dêmêtêr,” ch. 7 of Tales of Ancient Greece, by George William Cox, 1868. (HathiTrust)

  • “The Myth of Demeter and Persephone,” by Walter Pater, The Fortnightly Review, vol. 25, no. 109, 1 Jan. 1876. (HathiTrust)

    • Reprinted in Greek Studies: A Series of Essays, 1894. (HathiTrust)

  • “Demeter and Persephone (in Enna),” The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Poet Laureate) from the Author’s Text, vol. 2, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1885. (HathiTrust)

    • Reprinted in Demeter and Other Poems, 1889. (HathiTrust)

  • Ceres: A Mythological Play for Parlor and School in Three Acts; Two Males and Twelve Females, by M. Nataline Crumpton, 1890. Characters include Saturn, Flora and Proserpina. (HathiTrust)

  • Queen Summer, or The Tourney of the Lily & the Rose, by Walter Crane, 1891. (Internet Archive) (HathiTrust)

  • “The Festival of Ceres” (play), Ceres: A Harvest Home Festival, and Other Poems, Essays, Etc., by Olive S. England [Enright], 1893. Characters include personifications of every month of the Gregorian year. (Internet Archive)

  • “Ceres and Proserpina,” In Mythland, by M. Helen Beckwith, 1896. Illustrations by Susanne Lathrop. (HathiTrust)

  • Contributions to the Science of Mythology, vol. 2, by F. Max Müller, 1897. (Internet Archive) (HathiTrust)

  • “Philology and Demeter Erinnys,” ch. 5 of Modern Mythology, by Andrew Lang, 1897. (HathiTrust)

  • “The Homeric Hymn to Demeter,” ch. 6 of The Successors of Homer, by William Cranston Lawton, 1898. (HathiTrust)

  • “The Search of Ceres,” The Search of Ceres and Other Poems, by Sarah Warner Brooks, 1900. (Internet Archive)

  • “Ceres and Persephone: A Child Play,” by Maud Menefee, Ceres and Persephone: A Child Play … with the Hymn to Demeter, 1902. Characters include Persephone and Hades. (HathiTrust)

  • “The Sickle of Demeter,” In Arcady, by Hamilton Wright Mabie, 1903. (Internet Archive)

  • Demeter: A Mask, by Robert Bridges, 1904. Characters include Hades, Persephone, Athena, Artemis and Hermes. (HathiTrust)

  • “Death of Summer” (poem), Home Made Rhymes, by E. Laurence Lee, 1905. (Internet Archive)

  • “Demeter” (poem), by George Edward Woodberry, The Outlook, vol. 94, no. ?, 23 Apr. 1910. (HathiTrust)

    • Reprinted in A Day at Castrogiovanni, 1912. (Internet Archive)

  • Hail, Ceres, Hail!: Cantata for Soprano and Alto Soli, and Chorus of Mixed Voices, poem by Vittoria Colonna (Murray) Dallin, music by John H. Densmore, 1919. (Internet Archive)