Yarrow is a beautiful flower that shares twin meanings of healing and love. In the language of flowers , Yarrow’s symbolic meaning is traditionally associated with healing, originating from ...

Birth Month Flowers and Their Meanings January Birth Flower: Carnation. ... (yep, those old poem tropes are true!), ivory, white and yellow, as well as any combinations of those.

In Victorian England, flowers were sometimes used as a form of coded communication to express feelings that could not be spoken aloud. Each bloom was said to have a specific meaning — for ...

The Changing Meaning Of 'Home,' Described Through Poetry After a year of the pandemic, poet Tess Taylor highlights some poems reflecting on the changing meaning of "home" over the past few months.

The flower became widely used starting in World War I thanks to a 1915 poem written by Canadian soldier Major John McCrae, "who saw firsthand from the front lines of World War I the emergence of ...

Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Istanbul, wrote of the flower in his poetry and the 16th century Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent is credited with its large-scale cultivation.