The Language of Flowers: Poems by Jane Holloway (English) Hardcover Book

Description: The Language of Flowers by Jane Holloway A 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 EVERYMANS LIBRARY POCKET POET.Floral 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. Transcending 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 The Language of Flowers. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography JANE HOLLOWAY has been a senior editor at Everymans Library in the UK since its revival in 1991. She lives in Seaford, East Sussex. Table of Contents CONTENTS Forewordfrom The Homeric Hymn to Demeter SPRINGEmily Dickinson, The feet of people walking home Pir Sultan Abdul, I asked the yellow crocusesD. H. Lawrence, Italian Crocuses Sappho, ... frankly, I wish that I were dead Robert Herrick, How Violets Came BlueJohn Clare, To the VioletAlice Oswald, VioletHenry Hawkins, from The Virgin: The VioletLorenzo de Medici, Sonnet XCIV: O lovely violetWilliam Wordsworth, Song: She dwelt among the untrodden waysEdward Thomas, CelandineWilliam Wordsworth, To the Small CelandineOvid, from Metamorphoses: Venuss Lament for Adonis Ibn al-Zaqqaq, AnemonesRainer Maria Rilke, from Sonnets to Orpheus William Shakespeare, from The Winters Tale: Proserpinas Flowers Robert Herrick, To Primroses Filled with Morning DewJohn Clare, The Primrose BankAdelaide Crapsey, Blue Hyacinths Ovid, from Metamorphoses: The Death of HyacinthusCharles Tomlinson, The Metamorphosis Ben Jonson, Echos SongA. E. Housman, Look not in my eyes, for fearAbdallah Ibn Mutazz, Looking, the narcissus, lookingal-Sanawbari, Eyes of NarcissiWilliam Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloudU. A. Fanthorpe, Daffodil MinistryRobert Herrick, To DaffodilsHafez, from the Divan of Hafez Emily Dickinson, Some rainbow coming from the fairNecati, Ghazal: What have those tulip-cheeks not done James Fenton, Yellow TulipsE. J. Scovell, Deaths of Flowers Issa, Irises - Anthony Hecht, Look DeepWilliam Carlos Williams, IrisWilliam Morris, The Gillyflower of Gold Kim Sowol, AzaleasIssa, the little shrineRichard Wilbur, SignaturesCharlotte Smith, Sonnet LX: To an Amiable Girl Mimi Khalvati, Ghazal: Lilies of the ValleyEdmund Spenser, The Merry Month of May Walter de la Mare, The Hawthorn Hath a Deathly SmellChristina Rossetti, A Bed of Forget-Me-NotsJohn Clare, The CowslipsIbn Said, The Virgin A. E. Housman, Oh see how thick the goldcup flowersJames Russell Lowell, To the DandelionRoy Marshall, DandytimeJames Hurdis, from The Village Curate Geoffrey Chaucer, The Daisy Christina Rossetti, Where innocent bright-eyed daisies areWilliam Wordsworth, To the DaisyEmily Dickinson, So has a daisy vanishedJon Silkin, A Daisy Ibn Billita, MargueriteLouise GlÜck, Mock OrangeRené Rapin, Peony Wang Wei, Red PeoniesBuson, Sadness at twilight ...Emperor Yang, Peonies at Jixing Temple LILIES AND ROSESIbn Darraj al-Qastalli, LiliesAlfred, Lord Tennyson, from Balin and BalanDante Gabriel Rossetti, Marys GirlhoodWilliam Blake, The LillyRobert Herrick, The Lily in a CrystalThe New Testament, from Matthew 6Edmund Spenser. Song of the Enchantress Louise GlÜck, The Silver LilyOscar Wilde, RequiescatEmily Dickinson, Through the dark sodRuth Pitter, Lilies and WineAchilles Tatius, Leucippes SongKisai, The roseRumi, RoseRainer Maria Rilke, from The RosesAnonymous, There is no roseAusonius, On Newblown RosesEdmund Waller, Go, lovely RoseAnonymous, On a Rosebud Sent to her LoverRobert Herrick, Upon RosesHafez, The Nightingale and the RoseJ. W. von Goethe, Rosebud in the HeatherWilliam Blake, The Sick RoseSor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sonnet CXLVII: In which she morally censures a rose, and thereby all that resemble itJosé Marti, A White Rose William Blake, My Pretty Rose TreeE. Nesbit, Among His Books Marianne Moore, Injudicious GardeningRuth Pitter, from Gardeners AllDorothy Parker, Rondeau Théophile Gautier, The Tea-RoseH. D., Sea RoseW. B. Yeats, The Rose Upon the Rood of TimeAngelus Silesius, The rose is without why SUMMEREdmund Spenser, Sonnet LXIV:Comming to kiss her lipsAmy Lowell, Madonna of the Evening FlowersAlgernon Swinburne, Love in a MistBoris Pasternak, Night VioletWalter de la Mare, Noon and Night FlowerDorothy Parker, The Evening PrimroseTed Hughes, Sunstruck FoxgloveDenise Levertov, In Praise of AlliumGilles Durant, Le SoulcyAnonymous, Kangra Folk SongVicki Fever, MarigoldsSeamus Heaney, LupinsAlice Oswald, ThriftEmily Dickinson, I was the slightest in the house Robert Browning, Evelyn Hope Robert Herrick, How Pansies or Hearts-Ease Came FirstAlgernon Swinburne, A Flower-Piece by FantinChristina Rossetti, Heartsease in my garden bedDante Gabriel Rossetti, The HoneysucklePhilip Freneau, The Wild HoneysuckleAlfred, Lord Tennyson, from The Princess: Now sleeps the crimson petal Frances Sargent Osgood, The Lilys Delusion Ryokan, The LotusHuang E, To the Tune of Soaring CloudsHeinrich Heine, Lotus BlossomSarojini Naidu, The LotusSally Wen Mao, Mad Honey Soliloquy Horace, Odes I, 38 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Jealousy H. D., Leda William Cowper, The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive PlantJon Silkin, HarebellWilliam Carlos Williams, Queen-Anns-LaceVayilanrevan, What She Said Rabindranath Tagore, The First JasminesGiovanni Pascoli, Night-Blooming JasmineVictor Hugo, My Two Daughters William Shakespeare, from The Winters Tale: Flowers of Middle SummerPeter Phillips, Red CarnationsOvid, from Metamorphoses: Opium Poppies J. W. von Goethe, A Thing of BeautyJohn Addington Symonds, Love in DreamsW. S. Gilbert, The AestheteIsaac Rosenberg, Break of Day in the TrenchesMary Oliver, Poppies AUTUMNWilliam Blake, Ah! sunflowerKao Chi, SunflowerChang Yu, Yellow Sunflower of SzechwanEugenio Montale, The SunflowerJohn Clare, The RagwortAnne Stevenson, RagwortGuillaume Apollinaire, Autumn CrocusesAmy Lowell, Autumn Paul Verlaine, A DahliaAmy Clampitt, The Smaller OrchidRyokan, I descended to the valley to gather orchidsTheodore Roethke, CarnationsH. D., Sheltered GardenEmily Bronte, High Waving HeatherD. H. Lawrence, Bavarian GentiansWilliam Cullen Bryant, To the Fringed GentianEmily Dickinson, There is a flower that bees prefer Basil Bunting, Three Michaelmas daisiesSara Teasdale, Wild AstersAmy Clampitt, The Field PansySylvia Plath, Poppies in OctoberD. H. Lawrence, Sicilian CyclamensPo Chu-i, Chrysanthemums in the Eastern GardenRainer Maria Rilke, Crowned with DreamsRyota, They spoke no word WINTERJohn Eppel, Star of BethlehemMedbh McGuckian, Orchid HouseSara Teasdale, In a Cuban GardenRosalía de Castro, DaisyEmily Brontë, The blue bell is the sweetest flowerMarianne Moore, RosemaryKing Henry VIII, Green groweth the holly, so doth the ivyCharles Lassailly, The CamelliaMichael Field, CyclamensBasho, Two haikuMary Robinson, Ode to the Snow-dropTed Hughes, SnowdropChristina Rossetti, Endure Hardness Charles Tomlinson, The Order of Saying Carol Ann Duffy, Demeter THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERSLeigh Hunt, Love-Letters Made of FlowersThomas Bayly Haynes, The MyrtleW. M. Praed, Letter of AdviceRobert Burns, The PoesieElizabeth Barrett Browning, from Sonnets from the Portuguese: Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowersA. Mary F. Robinson, A DialogueChristina Rossetti, A rose has thorns as well as honeyStéphane Mallarmé, The FlowersChristina Rossetti, Consider the Lilies of the FieldPercy Bysshe Shelley, The QuestionBrenda Shaughnessy, Red Tulips, Then AsphodelAlfred, Lord Tennyson, Moral from The Day-dream Excerpt from Book From SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers Plucked in the garden, all the Summer through And Winter, and it seemed as if they grew In their close room, nor missed the sun and showers. So, in the like name of that love of ours, Take back these thoughts which here unfolded too, And which on warm and cold days I withdrew From my hearts ground. Indeed, those beds and bowers Be overgrown with bitter weeds and rue, And wait thy weeding; yet heres eglantine, Heres ivy! - take them, as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colors true, And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine . ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-61) A ROSE HAS THORNS AS WELL AS HONEY A rose has thorns as well as honey, Ill not have her for love or money; An iris grows so straight and fine, That she shall be no friend of mi≠ Snowdrops like the snow would chill me; Nightshade would caress and kill me; Crocus like a spear would fright me; Love-lies-bleeding makes me sad; And poppy-juice would drive me mad: - But give me holly, bold and jolly, Honest, prickly, shining holly; Pluck me holly leaf and berry For the day when I make merry. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-94) Details ISBN1101907959 Short Title LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS Pages 256 Language English ISBN-10 1101907959 ISBN-13 9781101907955 Format Hardcover Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-10-03 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2017-10-03 NZ Release Date 2017-10-03 US Release Date 2017-10-03 UK Release Date 2017-10-03 Place of Publication New York Author Jane Holloway Subtitle Poems Publisher Random House USA Inc Series Everymans Library Pocket Poets Series Imprint Everymans Library USA Edited by Jane Holloway DEWEY 821.92 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141731192;

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