FLORAL EMBLEMS. 233 



PENSIVENESS. 



COWSLIP. Primula veris. 



" Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head." 



ilton. 



" Anxious cares the pensive nymph opprest, 

 And secret passions laboured in her breast." 



Pope. 



We offer this, the poets' favourite meadow 

 flower, as symbolical of a mind so nearly al- 

 lied to melancholy love, that we may occa- 

 sionally place it on the lover's escutcheon, 

 with this motto from Hurdis : 



" The love-sick cowslip, that head inclines, 

 To hide a bleeding heart." 



