“…the wild flowers blooming in hushed solitude
Start not at the whispering, 'tis but the breeze”
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon (1829–1879) Canadian writer
from A Canadian Summer Evening
“You know the wild flowers suit your hair:
Place hands full of the purple bloom
Of loosestrife, glad of such soft doom,
And tender-toned narcissus there”
Poem Fate and the Little Flowers
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Place hands full of the purple bloom
Of loosestrife, glad of such soft doom…" by Edward Andrade?
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Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Forgotten One from The Keepsake, 1831 [Probably refers to Letitia’s little sister, Elizabeth]
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”
Susan Polis Schutz (1944) American poet
William Blake Auguries of Innocence
Variant: To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 1
Galén (129–216) Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher
Arabian Society In The Middle Ages, by Edward William Lane, (1883) citing Nowwájee, En-, Shems-ed-deen Moḥammad (died 1454), Ḥalbet El-Kumeyt, at footnote 167.
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