"The Language of Flowers" is an unpublished song from a poem by the American geologist and poet James Gates Percival, with music written by the English composer Edward Elgar when he was only fourteen years old.
[1] It is dated 29 May 1872, inscribed "by Edward W. Elgar", with "words by Percival"[2] (at first thought to be Elgar himself) and dedicated "to my sister Lucy on her birthday."
"The Unknown Elgar" includes "The Language of Flowers" performed by Teresa Cahill (soprano), with Barry Collett (piano).