...GENERALLY, AND TO EVERY BROTHER IN PARTICULAR WHO 18 WELL VERSED IN THEIR MORAL AND SYMBOLICAL REFERENCE. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits ; camphire, with spikenard ; Spikenard with saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the...

...beloved to one of these gardens:— " A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse— A spring shut up—a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, With pleasant fruits, camphire, and spikenard, Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense ; Myrrh...

...sexual imagery. This hortus condusus derived from erotic passages in the biblical Song of Solomon: "A Garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." In Geoffrey Chaucer's Merchant's Tale (c. 1386), the lover, Damyan, fabricates a key to unlock the...

...the Song of Solomon, inspired the gardens of the Middle Ages, within both monastery and castle walls: "A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up; a fountain sealed. . . A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." These "gardens enclosed"...

...suggest more powerfully the "flow" of sexual passion. Commenting on a text in the Song of Solomon, "a garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed," Clarke puts it bluntly: "She is unsullied, a chaste pure virgin. None has ever entered into this garden;...

...dice-throwing of his Un Coup de Des. 220 Song of Songs ¿:i¿: “A garden inclosed [hortus conclusus] is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed [fans signatus].” See GC, 155—6. 221 That is, the Introduction to Blake's Songs of Experience,...

...of life will flow out of us on a consistent basis. Look at Song Of Solomon 4: 12: A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. As the seals are broken, we are opened up and out of us flows Christ. The prophet Isaiah spoke of Mt....

...reminds me of the phrase hortus conclusus, which he refers back to the Song of Solomon: A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. .. . Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. Curious how I have felt all...

...wrote his piece on love. In his Song of Songs, the lover speaks to his beloved, "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain...pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard. A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon" (Song of Solomon 4:12, 13,...

...imagination of Bernard of Clairvaux, was an allegory of Jesus and his virgin mother. One of its verses reads: "A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse: a spring shut up, a fountain sealed". This is the symbolic significance of paintings that depict the Annunciation taking place in a garden,...