Love-Lies-Bleeding 



This flower that first appeared as Summer's guest 

 Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves, 

 And to her mournfol habit fondly clings. 



WUtiam Wordsworth. 



" The gentian hid a thoughtful eye 

 Beneath dark fringes, blue and shy. 

 Only by warmest noonbeams won 

 To meet the welcome of the sun." 



Origin of the Gentian 



Once to the Angel of Birds, far up in the rippling air. 

 From low on the sun-loved earth the Angel of 



Flowers breathed a prayer : 

 " Four plumes from the bluebird's wing and I'll 



make me something rare." 

 Four plumes from the bluebird's wing, as fast to the 



South he flew ! 

 The Angel of Flowers caught them up as they fell in 



the Autumn dew. 

 And shaped with a twirl of her fingers this spire of 



feathery blue. ^^^^^^^^ 



Thou waitest late and com'st alone. 

 When woods are bare and birds are flown. 

 And frosts and shortening days portend 

 The aged year is near his end. 



William Cullen Bryant. 



I like white flowers better than any others ; they 

 resemble fair women. Lily, Tuberose, Orange and 

 the truly English Syringa are my heart's delight. 



Walter Savage Latidor, 



