Posts Tagged ‘Thistle’
The Prickly Protector: Mandy Kirby on the Scottish Thistle’s Fierce Legacy
by Mandy Kirby Tough and durable, defiant against aggressors: the thistle embodied qualities that the Scots saw as their own, and the flower became their national emblem. There is a well-known legend of a Viking who stood on a thistle: his cry of pain alerted sleeping Scottish clansmen just in time to hold back the…
Read MoreHannah Rebecca Hudson’s “My Garden”: A Queen Among Flowers and Fields
by Hannah Rebecca Hudson It is set by fields of clover And sentinelled with trees, Hosts of sunbeams range it over ‘Tis owned by birds and bees. Larkspurs, leaning out of places Where bashful myrtles creep, Peep at monk-flowers’ hooded faces And poppies gone to sleep. There are wild and headstrong briers And thistle knights…
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