Tag: language of flowers

In the Pleasaunce with Snowdrops

In the Pleasaunce with Snowdrops

And thus the snowdrop, like the bowThat spans the cloudy sky, Became a symbol, whence, we knowThat brighter days are nigh. – Anonymous While landscapes shed off winter’s heavy cloak of gloom and grey, the winter-blooming bells of snowdrops begin to ring in spring. These Read more

To Lay Upon Ophelia’s Lap and Eve’s Lapsarian Couch

To Lay Upon Ophelia’s Lap and Eve’s Lapsarian Couch

An analysis of the Language of Flowers used in John Everett Millais’ Ophelia and John Milton’s Paradise Lost by Jesse Campbell He led her nothing loath; flowers were the couch,Pansies, and violets, and asphodel,And hyacinth, earth’s freshest, softest lap.There they their fill of love and Read more


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