Origin of "love lies bleeding"

Posted by ESC on January 12, 2003

In Reply to: Origin of "love lies bleeding" posted by Bob on January 12, 2003

: : Not the herb, not the Elton John song-

: : Anyone got any ideas?

: : Many thanks-

: see shop.store.yahoo.com/ twinleafcatalogue/600081.html
: It's an annual with a name derived from its appearance, with red flowers flowing down to the ground.. Question: is love an annual, or a perennial?

Mad love/bad love is a weed, choking a garden of hopes and dreams. (How's that for purple prose on a Sunday morning? I was going to work in "bad seed" but thought that was going too far.)

• Origin of "love lies bleeding" 3saintjoan7 01/25/03