The Flowers of Romance is a short 10-page story first featured in the Vertigo: Winter's Edge #1 anthology and later reprinted in collections such as Sandman: Deluxe Edition vol.2.
Summary[]
The story follows an unnamed aging Satyr, the last of his kind, who pleads to Desire for a gift, invoking the promise the Satyrs had been given "at a wedding, in the dawn of the world".
After their meeting, the story jumps to December 1997, when an archaeologist Phil and his girlfriend Sue visit an island that's been abandoned for about 200 years "even by monks and fishermen". There, Sue starts hearing ghostly music and has the strangest dream.