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toxicodendron radicans

You know how that old poem says that "Roses are red, violets are blue"?

Violets are traditionally a romantic flower, particularly associated with lesbians. Mostly because Sappho wrote about them in poems about her lost love, with lines like "Close by my side you put around yourself [many wreaths] of violets and roses."

More generally, the Ancient Greeks considered violets a symbol of love, and used to use them to make love potions.

Violets are really pretty flowers. Interestingly, the colour violet is actually named after the flowers, and not the other way around.
toxicodendron radicans

Sappho's poetry was really... just gosh. It's a pity the whole poem apparently hasn't survived intact, but this part of it goes:

“Close by my side you put around yourself
[many wreaths] of violets and roses...

And many woven garlands
made from flowers
around your tender neck...

And on a soft bed
...tender...
you satisfied your desire...”

💜

books.google.fr/books?id=mIMqX

books.google.frH.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910-1950The American poet H. D. (1886-1961) is increasingly being recognized as a key figure in the shaping of Anglo-American modernism, and this study attempts to emphasize her position, against the well-established claims of writers such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The study is grounded in questions of sexuality, gender and the nature of subjectivity and H. D.'s interest in Hellenism. The development of a homoerotic strand within her distinctively modernist poetics comes together in Collecott's central concept of "sapphic modernism."
toxicodendron radicans

food, alcohol, violets

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alcohol, violets

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