A Honeysuckle, on the sunny side,
Hung round the lattices its fragrant trumpets.
Miss Landon.
Ah! could you look into my heart,
And watch your image there!
You would own the sunny loveliness
Affection makes it wear.
Mrs. Osgood.
The pensive soul with ardent thirsting turns
To heaven and earth to seek its fill of love.
MacKellar.
Oh! there is one affection which no stain
Of earth can ever darken;—when two find,
The softer and the manlier, that a chain
Of kindred taste has fastened mind to mind.
’Tis an attraction from all sense refined;
The good can only know it; ’tis not blind,
As love is unto baseness; its desire
Is but with hands entwined to lift our being higher.
Cowslip.... Pensiveness.
The solitary Cowslip was known to the old English poets as the “sweet nun of the fields,” and has been immortalized in “Shakspeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In America, the Cowslip may be found from Maine to Missouri. Its hues are not gaudy, but winning; and the whole appearance of the flower, as it blooms in some solitary vale, or on some gentle slope, expresses the idea of pensive beauty.