Welcome back to Flower Poetry Fridays with Mrs. Sigourney. Each Friday a new poem will be posted from her The Voice Of Flowers.
THE WINTER BOUQUET.
FLOWERS ! fresh flowers, with your fragrance
free,
Have ye come in your queenly robes to me ?
Me have ye sought from your far retreat,
With your greeting lips, and your dewy feet ;
And the upward glance of your radiant eye,
Like angel guests from a purer sky ?But where did ye hide when the frost drew
near,
And your many sisters were blanched with
fear?
Where did ye hide ? with a blush as bright
As ye wore amid Eden’s vales of light,
Ere the wile of the Tempter its bliss had
shamed,
Or the terrible sword o’er its gate-way flam’d.Flowers, sweet flowers, with your words of
cheer,
Thanks to the friend who hath sent you here.
For this, may her blossoms of varied dye
Be the fairest and first ‘neath a vernal sky ;
And she be led, by their whispered lore,
To the love of that land where they fade no
more.
Indeed, where do flowers come from in the cold of winter?
Mrs. Sigourney gives a higher purpose to flowers in that she aligns their sweetness with escaping the Tempter’s snares. To her, flowers are so sweet that they can help lead us to the ‘land where they fade no more’!
Love her descriptions that give such character to her flowers…queenly robes, greeting lips, and dewy feet…like angel guests.
Come back next Friday for the last installment in our series of flower poems from Mrs. Sigourney’s The Voice of Flowers, “Farewell To The Flowers”.