PART II.
BLUE FLOWERS.
Describing the State or Quality of your Affections.
ANEMONE HEPATICA.
Art more through love, and greater than thy years.
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Thou art vainly seeking in the open sands of the sea, the pearl which still remains enclosed in the silent shell.
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BACHELOR’S BUTTON.
Of love, deep-learned to the red heart’s core.
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You would not your unhoused free condition
Put into circumscription and confine
For the sea’s worth.
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BLUE-BELL.
My life upon’t, young though thou art, thine eye hath stayed upon some favor that it loves.
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CHINA ASTER.
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truly touched with love.
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COLUMBINE.
Too flattering sweet to be substantial.
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FORGET-ME-NOT.
The uncertain glories of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away.
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Ineffable, and sympathy of soul;
Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will,
With boundless confidence.
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GENTIAN.
If thou wouldst treat him a little friendly, he would marry thee yet if thou wert willing.
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Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
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HELIOTROPE.
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Whose violent property foredoes itself,
And leads the will to desperate undertakings,
As oft as any passion under heaven
That does afflict our natures.
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HYACINTH.
There are many things which may be grasped with eagerness; others can only become ours through abstinence and moderation. Such is the love thou covetest.
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IRIS.
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That love should, of a sudden, take such hold?
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She alone, Heard, felt, and seen, possesses every thought,
Fills every sense.
LAVENDER.
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The one just suited to your mind!
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LARKSPUR.
You that have been Love’s whip!
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Still a lovelorn heart pursuing.
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LOBELIA.
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Shall from your neck unloose his amorous folds,
And, like a dew-drop from a lion’s mane,
Be shook to air.
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LUPINE.
The moonbeam dwells at dewy e’en,
So trembling, pure, is tender love,
Within thy breast.
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The heart of woman is but illy known to you.
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MONK’S HOOD.
It is the green-eyed monster which doth make
The meat it feeds on.
*****
Oh what damned moments tells she o’er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves.
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Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her.
MORNING GLORY.
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be,
Ere one can say, It lightens.
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Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute,
No more.
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PERIWINKLE.
Tender and deep in thy excess of love.
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Had ye never loved sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted,
Ye had ne’er been broken-hearted.
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SAGE.
To make ten frigid coxcombs vain,
Than one true, manly lover blest.
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VERNAL GRASS.
Thou hast nothing in thy head but thy love. Thou shouldst not forget all others for one.
Goethe.
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Is it possible that on so little acquaintance you should like her? that, but seeing, you should love her? and loving, woo? and wooing, she should grant?
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VIOLET.
Love no man in good earnest, nor no further in sport neither, than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst in honor come off again.
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You are now sailed into the north of my lady’s opinion; where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman’s beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt.
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