{"product_id":"the-language-of-flowers-isbn-9781101907955","title":"The Language of Flowers","description":"\u003cb\u003eA uniquely international anthology--in a beautiful pocket-sized hardcover--that explores the richly symbolic expressiveness of flowers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFloral symbols adorn the earliest poetry, and over the centuries they became increasingly entwined with myth and legend, with religious symbolism, and with herbal folklore. By the early nineteenth century the \"Language of Flora\" was an elaborately refined system, especially in England and America, where books listing flower meanings and illustrating them with verse were perennial bestsellers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranscending the charm of its Victorian predecessors, this anthology creates an extended, updated, and more robust floral anthology for the twenty-first century, presenting poets through the ages from Sappho, Shakespeare, and Shelley to Ted Hughes, Mary Oliver, and Louise Glück, and across the world from Cuba to Korea, Russia to Zimbabwe. Eastern cultures, rich in flower associations, are well represented: Tang poems celebrating chrysanthemums and peonies, Zen poems about orchids and lotus flowers, poems about jasmine and marigolds from India, and roses and narcissi from Persia, the Ottoman empire, and the Arabic world. The most timeless human emotions and concepts--love, hope, despair, fidelity, grief, beauty, and mortality--find colorful expression in \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Flowers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Homeric Hymn to Demeter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSPRING\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson, 'The feet of people walking home' \u003cbr\u003ePir Sultan Abdul, 'I asked the yellow crocuses'\u003cbr\u003eD. H. Lawrence, Italian Crocuses \u003cbr\u003eSappho, '... frankly, I wish that I were dead' \u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick, How Violets Came Blue\u003cbr\u003eJohn Clare, To the Violet\u003cbr\u003eAlice Oswald, Violet\u003cbr\u003eHenry Hawkins, from 'The Virgin': The Violet\u003cbr\u003eLorenzo de' Medici, Sonnet XCIV: 'O lovely violet'\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wordsworth, Song: 'She dwelt among the untrodden ways'\u003cbr\u003eEdward Thomas, Celandine\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wordsworth, To the Small Celandine\u003cbr\u003eOvid, from \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e: Venus's Lament for Adonis \u003cbr\u003eIbn al-Zaqqaq, Anemones\u003cbr\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, from \u003ci\u003eSonnets to Orpheus  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, from \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e: Proserpina's Flowers\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick, To Primroses Filled with Morning Dew\u003cbr\u003eJohn Clare, The Primrose Bank\u003cbr\u003eAdelaide Crapsey, Blue Hyacinths  \u003cbr\u003eOvid, from \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e: The Death of Hyacinthus\u003cbr\u003eCharles Tomlinson, The Metamorphosis \u003cbr\u003eBen Jonson, Echo's Song\u003cbr\u003eA. E. Housman, 'Look not in my eyes, for fear'\u003cbr\u003eAbdallah Ibn Mu'tazz, 'Looking, the narcissus, looking'\u003cbr\u003eal-Sanawbari, Eyes of Narcissi\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wordsworth, 'I wandered lonely as a cloud'\u003cbr\u003eU. A. Fanthorpe, Daffodil Ministry\u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick, To Daffodils\u003cbr\u003eHafez, from the Divan of Hafez \u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson, 'Some rainbow coming from the fair'\u003cbr\u003eNecati, Ghazal: 'What have those tulip-cheeks not done' \u003cbr\u003eJames Fenton, Yellow Tulips\u003cbr\u003eE. J. Scovell, Deaths of Flowers \u003cbr\u003eIssa, 'Irises - '\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Hecht, Look Deep\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams, Iris\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Morris, The Gillyflower of Gold \u003cbr\u003eKim Sowol, Azaleas\u003cbr\u003eIssa, 'the little shrine'\u003cbr\u003eRichard Wilbur, Signatures\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Smith, Sonnet LX: To an Amiable Girl \u003cbr\u003eMimi Khalvati, Ghazal: Lilies of the Valley\u003cbr\u003eEdmund Spenser, The Merry Month of May \u003cbr\u003eWalter de la Mare, 'The Hawthorn Hath a Deathly Smell'\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti, A Bed of Forget-Me-Nots\u003cbr\u003eJohn Clare, The Cowslips\u003cbr\u003eIbn Sa'id, The Virgin \u003cbr\u003eA. E. Housman, 'Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers'\u003cbr\u003eJames Russell Lowell, To the Dandelion\u003cbr\u003eRoy Marshall, Dandytime\u003cbr\u003eJames Hurdis, from \u003ci\u003eThe Village Curate \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGeoffrey Chaucer, The Daisy \u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti, 'Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are'\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wordsworth, To the Daisy\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson, 'So has a daisy vanished'\u003cbr\u003eJon Silkin, A Daisy \u003cbr\u003eIbn Billita, Marguerite\u003cbr\u003eLouise Glück, Mock Orange\u003cbr\u003eRené Rapin, Peony \u003cbr\u003eWang Wei, Red Peonies\u003cbr\u003eBuson, 'Sadness at twilight ...'\u003cbr\u003eEmperor Yang, Peonies at Jixing Temple\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLILIES AND ROSES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIbn Darraj al-Qastalli, Lilies\u003cbr\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson, from \u003ci\u003eBalin and Balan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDante Gabriel Rossetti, Mary's Girlhood\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Blake, The Lilly\u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick, The Lily in a Crystal\u003cbr\u003eThe New Testament, from Matthew 6\u003cbr\u003eEdmund Spenser. Song of the Enchantress \u003cbr\u003eLouise Glück, The Silver Lily\u003cbr\u003eOscar Wilde, Requiescat\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson, 'Through the dark sod'\u003cbr\u003eRuth Pitter, Lilies and Wine\u003cbr\u003eAchilles Tatius, Leucippe's Song\u003cbr\u003eKis'ai, 'The rose'\u003cbr\u003eRumi, Rose\u003cbr\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, from \u003ci\u003eThe Roses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous, 'There is no rose'\u003cbr\u003eAusonius, On Newblown Roses\u003cbr\u003eEdmund Waller, 'Go, lovely Rose'\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous, On a Rosebud Sent to her Lover\u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick, Upon Roses\u003cbr\u003eHafez, The Nightingale and the Rose\u003cbr\u003eJ. W. von Goethe, Rosebud in the Heather\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Blake, The Sick Rose\u003cbr\u003eSor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sonnet CXLVII: In which she morally censures a rose, and thereby all that resemble it\u003cbr\u003eJosé Marti, A White Rose \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Blake, My Pretty Rose Tree\u003cbr\u003eE. Nesbit, Among His Books \u003cbr\u003eMarianne Moore, Injudicious Gardening\u003cbr\u003eRuth Pitter, from \u003ci\u003eGardeners All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorothy Parker, Rondeau \u003cbr\u003eThéophile Gautier, The Tea-Rose\u003cbr\u003eH. D., Sea Rose\u003cbr\u003eW. B. Yeats, The Rose Upon the Rood of Time\u003cbr\u003eAngelus Silesius, 'The rose is without why'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUMMER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdmund Spenser, Sonnet LXIV:'Comming to kiss her lips'\u003cbr\u003eAmy Lowell, Madonna of the Evening  Flowers\u003cbr\u003eAlgernon Swinburne, Love in a Mist\u003cbr\u003eBoris Pasternak, Night Violet\u003cbr\u003eWalter de la Mare, Noon and Night Flower\u003cbr\u003eDorothy Parker, The Evening Primrose\u003cbr\u003eTed Hughes, Sunstruck Foxglove\u003cbr\u003eDenise Levertov, In Praise of Allium\u003cbr\u003eGilles Durant, Le Soulcy\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous, Kangra Folk Song\u003cbr\u003eVicki Fever, Marigolds\u003cbr\u003eSeamus Heaney, Lupins\u003cbr\u003eAlice Oswald, Thrift\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson, 'I was the slightest in the house' \u003cbr\u003eRobert Browning, Evelyn Hope \u003cbr\u003eRobert Herrick, How Pansies or Heart's-Ease Came First\u003cbr\u003eAlgernon Swinburne, A Flower-Piece by Fantin\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti, 'Heartsease in my garden bed'\u003cbr\u003eDante Gabriel Rossetti, The Honeysuckle\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Freneau, The Wild Honeysuckle\u003cbr\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson, from \u003ci\u003eThe Princess\u003c\/i\u003e: 'Now sleeps the crimson petal' \u003cbr\u003eFrances Sargent Osgood, The Lily's Delusion \u003cbr\u003eRyokan, The Lotus\u003cbr\u003eHuang E, To the Tune of 'Soaring Clouds'\u003cbr\u003eHeinrich Heine, Lotus Blossom\u003cbr\u003eSarojini Naidu, The Lotus\u003cbr\u003eSally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Soliloquy \u003cbr\u003eHorace, Odes I, 38 \u003cbr\u003eMary Elizabeth Coleridge, Jealousy \u003cbr\u003eH. D., Leda \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Cowper, The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant\u003cbr\u003eJon Silkin, Harebell\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams, Queen-Ann's-Lace\u003cbr\u003eVayilanrevan, What She Said\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRabindranath Tagore, The First Jasmines\u003cbr\u003eGiovanni Pascoli, Night-Blooming Jasmine\u003cbr\u003eVictor Hugo, My Two Daughters \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, from \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e: Flowers of Middle Summer\u003cbr\u003ePeter Phillips, Red Carnations\u003cbr\u003eOvid, from M\u003ci\u003eetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e: Opium Poppies \u003cbr\u003eJ. W. von Goethe, A Thing of Beauty\u003cbr\u003eJohn Addington Symonds, Love in Dreams\u003cbr\u003eW. S. Gilbert, The Aesthete\u003cbr\u003eIsaac Rosenberg, Break of Day in the Trenches\u003cbr\u003eMary Oliver, Poppies \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAUTUMN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Blake, 'Ah! sunflower'\u003cbr\u003eKao Chi', Sunflower\u003cbr\u003eChang Yu, Yellow Sunflower of Szechwan\u003cbr\u003eEugenio Montale, The Sunflower\u003cbr\u003eJohn Clare, The Ragwort\u003cbr\u003eAnne Stevenson, Ragwort\u003cbr\u003eGuillaume Apollinaire, Autumn Crocuses\u003cbr\u003eAmy Lowell, Autumn \u003cbr\u003ePaul Verlaine, A Dahlia\u003cbr\u003eAmy Clampitt, The Smaller Orchid\u003cbr\u003eRyokan, 'I descended to the valley to gather orchids'\u003cbr\u003eTheodore Roethke, Carnations\u003cbr\u003eH. D., Sheltered Garden\u003cbr\u003eEmily Bronte, High Waving Heather\u003cbr\u003eD. H. Lawrence, Bavarian Gentians\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Cullen Bryant, To the Fringed Gentian\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson, 'There is a flower that bees prefer' \u003cbr\u003eBasil Bunting, 'Three Michaelmas daisies'\u003cbr\u003eSara Teasdale, Wild Asters\u003cbr\u003eAmy Clampitt, The Field Pansy\u003cbr\u003eSylvia Plath, Poppies in October\u003cbr\u003eD. H. Lawrence, Sicilian Cyclamens\u003cbr\u003ePo Chu-i, Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden\u003cbr\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, Crowned with Dreams\u003cbr\u003eRyota, 'They spoke no word'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWINTER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Eppel, Star of Bethlehem\u003cbr\u003eMedbh McGuckian, Orchid House\u003cbr\u003eSara Teasdale, In a Cuban Garden\u003cbr\u003eRosalía de Castro, Daisy\u003cbr\u003eEmily Brontë, 'The blue bell is the sweetest flower'\u003cbr\u003eMarianne Moore, Rosemary\u003cbr\u003eKing Henry VIII, 'Green groweth the holly, so doth the ivy'\u003cbr\u003eCharles Lassailly, The Camellia\u003cbr\u003eMichael Field, Cyclamens\u003cbr\u003eBasho, Two haiku\u003cbr\u003eMary Robinson, Ode to the Snow-drop\u003cbr\u003eTed Hughes, Snowdrop\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti, Endure Hardness \u003cbr\u003eCharles Tomlinson, The Order of Saying \u003cbr\u003eCarol Ann Duffy, Demeter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeigh Hunt, Love-Letters Made of Flowers\u003cbr\u003eThomas Bayly Haynes, The Myrtle\u003cbr\u003eW. M. Praed, Letter of Advice\u003cbr\u003eRobert Burns, The Poesie\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning, from \u003ci\u003eSonnets from the Portuguese\u003c\/i\u003e: Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers'\u003cbr\u003eA. Mary F. Robinson, A Dialogue\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti, 'A rose has thorns as well as honey'\u003cbr\u003eStéphane Mallarmé, The Flowers\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti, Consider the Lilies of the Field\u003cbr\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley, The Question\u003cbr\u003eBrenda Shaughnessy, Red Tulips, Then Asphodel\u003cbr\u003eAlfred, Lord Tennyson, Moral from \u003ci\u003eThe Day-dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJANE HOLLOWAY has been a senior editor at Everyman's Library in the UK since its revival in 1991. She lives in Seaford, East Sussex.From \u003ci\u003eSONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBeloved, thou hast brought me many flowers\u003cbr\u003ePlucked in the garden, all the Summer through\u003cbr\u003eAnd Winter, and it seemed as if they grew\u003cbr\u003eIn their close room, nor missed the sun and showers.\u003cbr\u003eSo, in the like name of that love of ours,\u003cbr\u003eTake back these thoughts which here unfolded too,\u003cbr\u003eAnd which on warm and cold days I withdrew\u003cbr\u003eFrom my heart’s ground. Indeed, those beds and bowers\u003cbr\u003eBe overgrown with bitter weeds and rue,\u003cbr\u003eAnd wait thy weeding; yet here’s eglantine,\u003cbr\u003eHere’s ivy! – take them, as I used to do\u003cbr\u003eThy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.\u003cbr\u003eInstruct thine eyes to keep their colors true,\u003cbr\u003eAnd tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine\u003ci\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806–61)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003c\/i\u003eA ROSE HAS THORNS AS WELL AS HONEY’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rose has thorns as well as honey,\u003cbr\u003eI’ll not have her for love or money;\u003cbr\u003eAn iris grows so straight and fine,\u003cbr\u003eThat she shall be no friend of mine;\u003cbr\u003eSnowdrops like the snow would chill me;\u003cbr\u003eNightshade would caress and kill me;\u003cbr\u003eCrocus like a spear would fright me;\u003cbr\u003eLove-lies-bleeding makes me sad;\u003cbr\u003eAnd poppy-juice would drive me mad: –\u003cbr\u003eBut give me holly, bold and jolly,\u003cbr\u003eHonest, prickly, shining holly;\u003cbr\u003ePluck me holly leaf and berry\u003cbr\u003eFor the day when I make merry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830–94)","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302712070373,"sku":"NP9781101907955","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781101907955.jpg?v=1767740107","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-language-of-flowers-isbn-9781101907955","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}