And did you not feel, in looking at those flowers, 

 how each made you love it as a friend the Pinks, 

 and Sweet Williams, the Everlasting Peas, Valerian, 

 Day Lily, Jacob's Ladder, and a host of others ? 



Forbes Watson. 



The flower-de-luce forth spread his heavenly hue, 

 Flower Damasks, and Columbine white and blue, 

 Seyr downye small on Dent-de-lion sprang, 

 The young green blooming strawberry leaves amang. 



Gawen Douglas. 



The Wall-Flower 



The wall-flower, the wall-flower, 



How beautiful it blooms! 

 It gleams above the ruined tower, 



Like sunlight over tombs ; 

 It sheds a halo of repose 



Around the wrecks of time. 

 To beauty give the flaunting rose, 



The wall-flower is sublime. 



David Macbeth Moir. 



Sweet Peas 



Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight: 

 With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, 

 And taper fingers catching at all things, 

 To bind them all about with tiny rings. 



John Keats. 



Tiger-Lilies 



I like not lady-slippers, 

 Nor yet the sweet pea blossom, 

 Nor yet the flaky roses, 

 Red, or white as snow ; 



