For Valentines Day

'Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. Love is like a rose the joy of all the earth, Faith is like a lily lifted high and white, Love is like a lovely rose the world's delight. Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth, But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.' ~ Christina Rossetti

"Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing." ~ Thomas Moore~

"Love is like the wild rose-briar;

Friendship like the holly-tree.

The holly is dark when the rose-briar...