Carnation, Yellow - The Language of Flowers

This is a very rich and gragrant flower, growing sometimes as large as a rose.

Disdain.

It is not well amid thy race to move
And shut thy heart to sympathy and love.
It is not well to scorn inferior minds,
And pass them by as though they were but hinds.
Pride may become thee, as the veil a nun,
But ah! they love thee not whom thou dost shun!
And days may come to thee when human love
Thou wilt desire all earthly things above;
And thou wilt mourn that, in thy days of pride,
Thou didst not win some true hearts to thy side;
Wilt mourn that now, thy rank and wealth have flown,
thou'rt left to suffer and to die alone.