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lavender or violet: Love at first sight; enchantment [4] yellow: Friendship, joy, gladness; [4] apology, intense emotion, undying love; extreme betrayal, a broken heart, infidelity, jealousy; [5] [7] Aromanticism [30] white: I am worthy of you; [5] secrecy [8] dried white rose: Sorrow; death is preferable to loss of virtue; [4] transient ...
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love." —Max Müller "Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place ...
A blue flower (German: Blaue Blume) was a central symbol of inspiration for the Romanticism movement, and remains an enduring motif in Western art today. [1] It stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable. It symbolizes hope and the beauty of things.
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877). According to Jayne Alcock, grounds and gardens supervisor at the Walled Gardens of Cannington, the renewed Victorian era interest in the language of flowers finds its roots in Ottoman Turkey, specifically the court in Constantinople [1] and an obsession it held with tulips during the first half of the 18th century.
The story goes that Cleopatra’s seductive secret to wooing Julius Caesar and Marc Antony was her bathing in lavender. When the tomb of King Tutankhamen was opened the slight scent of lavender ...
Birds, Beasts and Flowers is a collection of poetry by the English author D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1923. These poems include some of Lawrence's finest reflections on the 'otherness' of the non-human world. Lawrence started the poems in this collection during a stay in San Gervasio near Florence in September 1920.
"Lavender" is a song by the British neo-prog band Marillion. It was released as the second single from their 1985 UK number one concept album Misplaced Childhood.The follow-up to the UK number two hit "Kayleigh", the song was their second Top Five UK hit, entering the chart on 7 September 1985, reaching number five and staying on the chart for nine weeks. [1]
The original manuscript of the poem, BL Harley MS 2253 f.63 v "Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems.