Spider Chrysanthemum, originally uploaded by louis dallara photography.
Fair gift of Friendship! and her ever bright
And faultless image! welcome now thou art,
In thy pure loveliness–thy robes of white,
Speaking a moral to the feeling heart;
Unscattered by heats–by wintry blasts unmoved–
Thy strength thus tested–and thy charms improved.
- Anna Peyre Dinnies,
To a White Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.
- Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde),
Humanitad (st. 11)
