Lovers claim it as their own.
It's symbols smile upon the land,
Wrought by Natures wonderous hand;
and in their silent beauty speak,
Of life and joy, to those who seek.
For love divine and sunny hours,
In the language of the flowers.
Amaryllis...............Pride
When Amaryllis fair doth show
the richness of her fiery glow,
The modest lilly hids her head;
the former seems so proudly spread
To win the gaze of human eye.
which sonnest brightest things doth spy.
Yet the vainly is the honour won.
since hastily her course is run;
She blossoms, blooms,- she fades,- she dies,-
they who admired, now despise.
Abatina................Fickleness
Acacia................Chaste love
Adonis...............Sorrowful remembrance
African Marigold...............Vulgar minds
Almond, Flowering...............Hope
Aloe...............Grief, Affection
Alsysum, Sweet...............Worth beyond beauty
Amaranth...............Immortality, Unfading love
Ambrosia...............Love returned
Anemone...................Forsaken
Azalea...............Temperance
Bluebell.................Constancy
A filbert hedge with wild briar overtwined,
And clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind
Upon their summer thrones; there too should be
The frequent chequer of a youngling tree,
That with a score of light green brethren shoots
From the quaint mossiness of aged roots:
Round which is heard a spring-head of clear waters
Babbling so wildly of its lovely daughters
The spreading blue-bells: it may haply mourn
That such fair clusters should be rudely torn
From their fresh beds, and scattered thoughtlessly
By infant hands, left on the path to die.
Bachelor's Buttons...............Single blessedness
Begonia.................Dark thoughts
Blue bell...............Constancy
Buttercup, Kingcup...............Childishness, Ingratitude
Carnation...............Alas my poor heart
Sir, the year growing ancient,
Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth
Of trembling wintr, the fairest flowers o' th' season
Are our Carnation and streak'd gillyvors
Which some call nature's bastards.
Camellia................Perfected Loveliness
Cactus...............Warmth
Chrysanthemum.................I love
Clover, Four-leaved...............Be mine
Clover, White...............Think of me
Crocus...............Abuse not
Cornflower...............Delicacy
Daffodil...............Regard and Chivalry
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Dahlia, Single................Good taste
Daisy...............Innocence
Dandelion...............Oracle
Dead Leaves...............Sadness
Dew Plant................A serenade
Dogwood...............Durabitily
Forget-Me-Not...............True Love
From off her glowing cheek, she sat and stretched
The silk upon the frame, and worked her name
Between the Moss-rose and Forget-Me-Not--
Her own dear name, with her own auburn hair!
That forced to wander till sweet spring return,
I yet might ne'er forget her smile, her look,
Her voice, (even in her mirthful mood
Has made me wish to steal away and weep.)
Nor yet the entrancement of that maiden kiss
With which she promised, that when spring returned,
She would resign one half of that dear name
And own thenceforth no other name but mine!
Fern, Flowering...............Fascination
Fleur-de-lis...............Flame
Foxglove................Insincerity
French Honeysuckle...............Rustic Beauty
Fuchsia, Scarlet...............Taste
Geranium...............Melancholy
Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!
Sit and watch by her side and hour.
That is her book-shelf, this her bed;
She plucked that piece of geranium-flower,
Beginning to die too, in the glass;
Little has yet been changed, I think;
The shutters are shut, no light may pass
Save two long rays thro' the hinge's chink.
Garden Chervil................Sincerity
Gilliflower...............Lasting beauty, Bonds of affection
Gladiolus...............Strength of Character
Glory Flower..............Glorious beauty
Golden Rod.................Precaution, Encouragment
Honeysuckle................Sweetness of Disposition
Ye have been fresh and green,
Ye have been fill'd with flowers:
And ye the Walks have been
Where Maids have spent their houres.
Y'ave heard them sweetly sing,
And seen them in a Round:
Each Virgin, like a Spring,
With Hony-succles crown'd
Harthorne................Hope
Hazel...............Reconcillation
Hemp...............Fate
Henbane...............Imperfection
Hibiscus..............Delicate beauty
Holly...............Foresight
Hop...............Injustice
Hollyhock...............Female Ambition
Hyacinth...............Sorrow
Iris...............Message
Thou art the Iris, fair among the fairest,
Who, armed with golden rod
And winged with the celestial azure, bearest
The message of some God.
Thou art the Muse, who far from crowded cities
O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river
Iceland moss................Health
Ivy................Fidelity
..... Jasmine.....
My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined
Jonquil...............I desire a return of affection
Juniper...............Succour, Protection
Lavender.................Distrust
For centuries Lavender has been used in the home to
Lady's Slipper................Capricious beauty
Larkspur...............Lightness, Levity
Laurel...............Glory
Lilac, Purple................First emotions of love
Lilac, White.............. Youthful innocense
Lilly, Day................Cocquetry
Lilly, Yellow................Falsehood, Gaiety
Lilly of the Valley............Return of happiness
Lotus...............Elegance
Lupin...............Voraciousness
Marigold...............Grief
Open afresh your round of starry folds,
Magnolia, Laurel-leaved...............Dignity
Magnolia, Swamp...............Perserverance
Marigold...............Grief, Despair
Marjoram...............Blushes
Morning glory...............Affectation
Moss...............Maternal love
Narciassus...............Egotism
Nasturtium...............Patriotisim
Nettle, Common stinging..............You are cruel
Nightshade...............Falsehood
Orchid...............A belle
I met a lady in the meads
I set her on my pacing steed,
I made a garland for her head,
She found me roots of relish sweet,
Oleander...............Beware
Orange Blossoms...............Bridal festivities, Your purity equals your loveliness
Ox Eye...............Patience
Pansy...............Thoughts
I send thee pansies while the year is young
Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung
Palm...............Victory
Passion Flower...............Religious Supersitition
Sweet Pea...............Departure, Lasting pleasures
Peach Blossom..............I am your captive
Pennyroyal...............Flee away
Peony............... Shame, Bashfulness
Periwinkle, blue................Early friendship
Periwinkle, white...............Pleasures of memory
Petunia.................Never Despair
Poppy, Scarlet...............Fan
Prickley pear...............Satire
Primrose...............Early youth or Sadness
Quaking grass...............Agitation
Quamoclet................Busybody
Queen's Rocket................You are the Queen of Coquettes, passion
......Rose......
Rosebud, Red.................Pure and lovely
Sunflower................Haughtiness
No. the heart that as truly lov'd never forgets,
Saffron...............Beware of success
Shamrock...............Light-heartedness
Strawberry blossoms.............Foresight
Sweet pea...............Delicate pleasures
Hauntest the sylvan streams,
Linger to kiss thy feet!
O flower of song, bloom on, and make for ever
The world more fair and sweet.
Yellow...............Grace and Elegance
White................Amiability
Spanish ............Sensuality
Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is
To sit beside our cot, our cot o'ergrown
With white-flowered jasmin, and the broad-leaved Myrtle,
Meet emblems they of Innocence and Love!
Scent linen chests, perfume soap and eau de Cologne,
and as a herbal cure. The Elizabethans scatrtered it on the
floor to scent their houses and to deter moths and insects.
According to folklore, small poisonous snakes known as
asps like to lie under lavender bushes. So people grew to
distrust the plant, and the language of Lavender came
to express exactly that sentiment.
Ye ardent marigolds!
Dry up the moisture from your golden lids,
For great Apollo bids
That in these days your praises should be sung
On many harps, which he has lately strung;
And when again your dewiness he kisses,
Tell him, I have you in my world of blisses;
So haply when I rove in some far vale,
His mighty voice may come upon the gale.
Full beautiful, a faery's child;
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sideways would she lean, and sing
A faerys's song
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She look'd at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
And honey wild, and manna dew;
And sure in language strange she said,
I love thee true.
Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;
By all the chiefest of the sons of light;
And if in recollection lives regret
For wasted days and dreams that were not true,
I tell thee that the pansy "freaked with jet"
Is still the heart's-ease that the poets knew.
Take all the sweetness of a gift unsought,
And for the pansies send me back a thought.
Austrian...............Thou art all that is lovely
Burgandy.................Unconscious beauty
China...............Beauty always new
Daily................Thy smile I aspire to
Damask................Brilliant Complexion
Deep Red..............Bashful shame
Hundred-leaved.................Pride
Single..................Simplicity
Thornless..................Early attachment
Unique................Call me not beautiful
White.................I am worthy of you
Yellow................Decrease of love, Jealousy
White & Red together................. Unity
Rosebud, White.................Girlhood, & a heart ignorant of love
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turn'd when he rose.