In a Vase on Monday: The Sweetest Flowers

This is a humble little arrangement which I put together in a big hurry, but these flowers are some of my favorites and so dear to my heart. A friend very kindly gave me some lily-of-the-valley last week and a few stems got broken in the transplanting process, so I had an excuse to use them in this vase where I can enjoy their heavenly fragrance close-up! 
All of these flowers seem to be favorite subjects for poems, so I included a little verse for each that I often remember when I think of them. :)

               "White bud! thou ’rt emblem of a lovelier thing,
​​The broken spirit that its anguish bear
​To silent shades, and there sits offering
  To Heaven the holy fragrance of its tears."
                                                              ~George Croly

"...whose rosy spurred cups look like a double shield ."
                                                 ​~Gardening Among the Chinese

"It is the more beautiful for being small and unpretending; even flowers must be modest."
                                                                                                ~Henry David Thoreau

"I send thee pansies while the year is young,
Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;
Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung."
                                                                  ~Sarah Dowdney

I am looking forward to seeing what other gardeners are picking in their gardens this week! You can see them too at Rambling in the Garden. Have a great week!