The language of flowers

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by H. C. PECK & THEO. BLISS, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Oh! many a glorious flower there grows In far and richer lands; But high in my affection e’er The beautiful Crocus stands. I love their faces, when by one And two they’re lookin...

’Tis sweet, and yet ’tis sad, that gentle power, Which throws in winter’s lap the spring-tide flower: I love to dream of days my childhood knew, When, with the sister of my hear...

The common Box, of which our hedge is formed, is indigenous in England, preferring the chalky hills of Surrey and Kent for its residence, but flourishing well on other soils. It...

And as she looked upon him, she imagined that his lips moved again, as when they said, “Give me my hand, why dost thou feel it?” she fancied she again felt his face upon her che...

There are distinctions that will live in heaven, When time is a forgotten circumstance! The elevated brow of kings will lose The impress of regalia, and the slave Will wear his...

The Rosemary is so often mentioned by our early writers, both in prose, poetry, and our oldest dramas, that a long article, possessing great interest to such as love old-fashion...

Will you drink of this fountain, and sorrow forget? Has the past been so blest that you hesitate yet? Can love, when ’tis slighted, still cherish a token, Or hearts still forgiv...

Women of kind have conditions three: The first is,--they be full of deceit, To spinne also is their property, And women have a wonderful conceit, For they can weep oft, and all...

This plant is an appropriate emblem of superstition; for it has always been regarded with reverence by the peasantry of Europe, on account of its real and supposed virtues. It w...

This bud of welcome to thee we give,-- Bid its unborn sweets in thy bosom live; It shall charm thee from all a stranger’s pain, Reserve, suspicion, and dark disdain: A race in i...

But lo! the dome--the vast and wondrous dome, To which Diana’s marvel was a cell-- Christ’s mighty shrine above his martyr’s tomb! I have beheld the Ephesian’s miracle-- Its col...

Hate all, curse all: show charity to none; But let the famished flesh slide from the bone, Ere thou relieve the beggar: give to dogs What thou deniest to men; let prisons swallo...

Parsley Festivity. Passion Flower Faith. Peppermint Warmth of feeling. Periwinkle Tender recollections. Pine-apple You are perfect. Pink Pure love. ----, Yellow Disdain. Plane t...

So might the days have been brightly told-- Those days of song and dreams-- When shepherds gathered their flocks of old By the blue Arcadian streams; So, in those isles of delig...