I%26#039;m looking for all the references to various types of flowers made in shakespeare.. can you help with quotes about flowers? thanks
FlowersBirthday FlowersSympathy Flowers%26quot;Hamlet%26quot;, Act 4, Scene 5
%26quot;OPHELIA
There%26#039;s rosemary, that%26#039;s for remembrance; pray,
love, remember: and there is pansies. that%26#039;s for thoughts.
LAERTES
A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.
OPHELIA
There%26#039;s fennel for you, and columbines: there%26#039;s rue
for you; and here%26#039;s some for me: we may call it
herb-grace o%26#039; Sundays: O you must wear your rue with
a difference. There%26#039;s a daisy: I would give you
some violets, but they withered all when my father
died: they say he made a good end,--%26quot;
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%26quot;A Midsummer Night%26#039;s Dream%26quot;, Act 1 Scene 1
“And I serve the fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be:
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours.
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%26quot;Othello%26quot;, Act 3, Scene 3
Not Poppy or Mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou ownedst yesterday
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%26quot;Othello%26quot; Act 5, Scene 2
When I have plucked the Rose,
I cannot give it vital growth again,
It needs must wither. I’ll smell it on the tree
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Reply:Midsummer%26#039;s Night Dream. The names of the fairies include Mustard Seed, Tansy, and Larkspur.
Reply:In %26quot;Hamlet%26quot;, during Ophelia%26#039;s mad scene, many references are made to flowers. I don%26#039;t have any specific quotes for you, but look up Ophelia%26#039;s mad scene.
Good luck!
Reply:Very interesting question.
At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May%26#039;s new-fangled shows;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
-Loves Labor Lost
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull%26#039;d in these flowers with dances and delight.
-A Midsummer Night%26#039;s Dream
When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o%26#039; the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter%26#039;s pale.
-The Winter%26#039;s Tale
Sir, the year growing ancient,
Not yet on summer%26#039;s death, nor on the birth
Of trembling winter, the fairest
flowers o%26#039; the season
Are our carnations and streak%26#039;d gillyvors,
Which some call nature%26#039;s bastards: of that kind
Our rustic garden%26#039;s barren; and I care not
To get slips of them.
-The Winter%26#039;s Tale
Here%26#039;s flowers for you;
Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;
The marigold, that goes to bed wi%26#039; the sun
And with him rises weeping: these are flowers
Of middle summer, and I think they are given
To men of middle age.
-The Winter%26#039;s Tale
Lawn as white as driven snow;
Cyprus black as e%26#039;er was crow;
Gloves as sweet as damask roses.
-The Winter%26#039;s Tale
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
-King John
There thou prick%26#039;st her with a thistle.
– Much Ado About Nothing
Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree;
- Romeo %26amp; Juliet
Not poppy, nor mandragora Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.
-Othello
…thou shalt not lack the flower that%26#039;s like thy face, pale primrose, nor the azured hare-bell, like they veins.
- Cymbeline
There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men%26#039;s fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes...
-Hamletacting resources
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