Daffodils. A Study of Spring Flowers.

The Daffodil symbolizes rebirth and new beginnings. In England they are associated with lent and are called Lent-Lilies.

I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd -

A host of dancing daffodils:

Along the lake, beneath the trees,

Ten thousand dancing in the breeze

The waves beside them danced, but they

outdid the sparking waves in glee;

A poet could not but be gay

In such a laughing company.

I gazed - and gazed - but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought.

For oft when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye 

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

TO DAFFODILS

Fair daffodils, we weep to see

you haste away so soon;

As yet the early-rising sun

Has not attain'd his noon.

Stay, stay

Until the hasting day

Has run

But to the evensong;

And, having prayed together, we

Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring;

As quick a growth to meet decay,

As you, or anything.

We die,

As your hours do, and dry

Away,

Like to the summer's rain;

Or as the pearls of morning's dew,

Ne'er to be found again.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

I've always wanted to find a Robert Herrick poem to go with one of my

flower blogs as I do family history and know that I am very distantly related to him.

If you are giving Daffodils to anyone, always give them in a bunch,

don't give just one.  When given as a single bloom, a 

Daffodil can foretell misfortune.

What is your favorite spring flower?

G.G.

Learn more about: The Meaning of  Daffodils
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