About Love Hopeful | "The pink roses are love hopeful and expectant."
"Love Hopeful" is the only fanlisting officially approved by The Fanlistings Network for pink roses.
A fanlisting aims to bring together people from all over the world who are fans of a certain subject. This fanlisting has been approved at the Nature category of the TFL Network since 03 September 2003. For more information about what a fanlisting is, please go to http://thefanlistings.org.
About Pink Roses | all sweetness and youth
Pink roses have always been a symbol of young love and of ideas connected to it. Bijbo-flowers.com says this about pink flowers in general:
The pink is generally the color of softness and happiness. This color calls to the reserve, more reserve than action. The pink flowers offer many nuances and a great diversity of significances, generally, they express timidity, tenderness, fragility, birth of a love. They can evoke marginally, sensuality, the desire to allure and the fidelity.
- Bijbo-flowers.com's pink flower meanings
It has been referred to in that fashion in literary for some time now, such as the below:
The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
But I send you a cream white rosebud,
With a flush on its petal tips;
For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.
- John Boyle O"Reilly, 1844-90
And in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne's House of Dreams:
"The rose is the flower of love--the world has acclaimed it so for centuries. The pink roses are love hopeful and expectant--the white roses are love dead or forsaken--but the red roses--ah, Leslie, what are the red roses?"
"Love triumphant," said Leslie in a low voice.
In the language of flowers, pink roses may mean a lot of things, which I have attempted to collect and list below:
- grace, gentle feelings of love (from Wikipedia)
- gratitude (dark pink variants; from Wikipedia)
- admiration, sympathy (light pink variants; from Wikipedia)
- love with timidity or reserve (from Bijbo-flowers.com)
- perfect happiness; please believe me (from The Language of Flowers)
- brilliant complexion; the glow of your smile (from Prince's Meaning of Flowers)
(If you know more references to pink roses in literature, let me know!)
 
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