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

The Language of Ophelia’s Flowers There is a willow grows askant the brook,That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.Therewith fantastic garlands did she makeOf crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purplesThat liberal shepherds give a grosser name,But our cold maids do dead-men’s-fingers call them. Read more