. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. IVY. But here on kindly errand am I sent : To thee I come a messenger from Jove, Who from on high looks down on thee with eyes Of pitying love ; he bids thee ransom home The godlike Hector's corpse ; and with thee take Such presents as may melt Achilles' heart. {Homer, Lord Derby's Trans.) and straightway he does her bidding with success. IVY (Hedera helix).—FRIENDSHIP. " Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the l
. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. IVY. But here on kindly errand am I sent : To thee I come a messenger from Jove, Who from on high looks down on thee with eyes Of pitying love ; he bids thee ransom home The godlike Hector's corpse ; and with thee take Such presents as may melt Achilles' heart. {Homer, Lord Derby's Trans.) and straightway he does her bidding with success. IVY (Hedera helix).—FRIENDSHIP. " Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world ; Friendship is represented by a device in which Ivy is growing round a fallen tree, with the motto, " Nothing can detach me froni it," In Greece the hymeneal altar was hung with Ivy, and a branch was presented to a newly-wedded husband, symbolizing the indissoluble union he had just formed. " Nothing," says a popular writer, " can separate the Ivy from the tree which it once embraces; it adorns it with its foliage in the harsh season when its branches bear only the hoar-frost; the companion of its destinies, it falls when the tree is overthrown ; death even does not work separation, and it decorates with its perpetual verdure the withered trunk of its past supporter," These words are true. The Ivy is held to the soil by its own roots, and derives nothing from the substance of the tree which it embraces. The protector ii8. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tyas, Robert, 1811-1879. London, New York, G. Routledge and sons
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