© Wendy Edelson, Violets Bunny, 2020

The Violet by Henry Hawkins

The lowlie Virgin view’d. Her modest eye,
Submissive count’nance, thought did relye

With vertues, fragrant colours, round beset,
Close to the earth lay like a Violet;

Such was the Virgin rays’d to be Heaven’s Queene,
Who on the earth, neglected, was not seene.

Poem Attribution © Henry Hawkins, The Violet, (From The Virgin)

Source Attribution The Language of Flowers, Ed. Jane Holloway, Pub. Alfred A. Knopf

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Painting Attribution © Wendy Edelson, Violets Bunny, 2020

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