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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LILIES Matches Found: 155 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A FRENCH LILY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet iphigenia-soul of every day Last Line: Thee none the less I treasure next my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies A GOLD STAR MOTHER SPEAKS, by VIRGINIA ARMISTEAD NELSON Poem Text First Line: My little lad of other days sleeps there Last Line: They'll guard his grave, and bloom about his cross. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Lilies; Sons; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A MAUDLE-IN-BALLAD; TO HIS LILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my lank limp lily, my long lithe lily" Last Line: "that I bought for a halfpenny, yesterday" Subject(s): Flowers;lilies A ROSE IN OCTOBER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strayed, all alone, where the Last Line: She'd bloom for me aye, as -- my wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Marriage; October; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 29. THE LENT LILY, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis spring; come out to ramble Last Line: That dies on easter day. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Spring; The Resurrection A SONNET. THE ROSE AND LILY, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Courted by cupids, and the amorous air Last Line: And rose and lily do in empire join. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses AD ASTRA: 39, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O thou, who somewhere braidest billowy gold Last Line: That never knew how graciously she stood! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love AN EASTER LILIY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain to seal the sepulchre Last Line: Within the garden stands. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Pilate, Pontius; The Resurrection ASCENSION LILIES, by HELEN WALL STALLWORTH Poem Text First Line: The hours that come between the colored drift Last Line: To glorify their lord on easter morn. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Flowers; Lilies AT CROWN HILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave him here in the fresh greening grasses and trees Last Line: It is midnight to us -- it is morning to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Love; Tears; Trees; Dead, The BABE HERRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a rosebud might, in dreams Last Line: Of thy mother slumberest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Nightmares BLUE SWAMP LILIES, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Lone hermits that the world has seldom seen Last Line: Blue lilies nodding to you joyously. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies BOUQUET WITH FLYING LOVERS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Even doused in bouquets, they are buoyant, out-dazzled Last Line: Squabbles of color only they can imagine Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Hearts; Lilies; Love BURIED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepest where the lilies fade Last Line: The snow upon thy bosom. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Soul; Dead, The BY THE WATER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are rivers lapsing down Last Line: And ah, where is my friend? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): River Thames Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Lilies; Thames (river) CHIAROSCURO, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty was disrobing Last Line: From the garden of june. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Lilies; Nudity; Nakedness COLD AND QUIET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold, my dear, -- cold and quiet Last Line: Love, now the children slumber, I come out to thee. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Silence; Dead, The CONSIDER THE LILIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the radiant star above Last Line: Than e'er was wedded unto sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Silence CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solomon most glorious in array Last Line: Thou who gatherest lilies, gather us and wear. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers preach to us if we will hear Last Line: To nourish one small seed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flowers; Lilies; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas DAY LILIES, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For six days, full-throated, they praised Subject(s): Lilies EASTER LILIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, lovely easter lilies Last Line: Of spotless purity! Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; The Resurrection EASTER LILIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though long in wintry sleep ye lay Last Line: Of christ, the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; The Resurrection EASTER REVELATION, by CLARA EMELIA ULLMAN Poem Text First Line: No mortal yet knows how the white lily grows Last Line: Life, and love never-failing and true. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Lilies; The Resurrection FALLEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of the lilies are lying Last Line: At the evenfall. Subject(s): Lilies Of The Valley; Nature; Shame FLAME LILIES, by CHRISTINE F. BRONSON Poem Text First Line: Three children on a long, white road Last Line: So close the lilies are. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies FLOWER-DE-LUCE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful lily, dwelling by still rivers Last Line: The world more fair and sweet. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies FOUR WHITE LILIES, by ANNA CALLENDER BRACKETT Poem Source First Line: Twas a vision, a dream of the night Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Transcendentalism GARDENS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wide, fair gardens, the rich, lush gardens Last Line: "where we kissed the mother and said ""good-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Poppies GIRL BEFORE A SHRINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three lilies grew in a garden Last Line: The lily-blooms and me! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Girls; God; Lilies; Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean GIVEN THE GIFT OF SPEECH AND ONLY ONE WORD, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: To whom should I have turned when the lily spoke? Last Line: Somebody must have heard - the lily spoke %you must have heard the lily say my name Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Flowers; Lilies; Nature; Speech GROTESQUE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do the lilies goggle their tongues at me Last Line: While you dance? Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies HOW LILES CAME WHITE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White though ye be; yet lillies, know Last Line: And made ye white. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies IN BEAUTY BRIGHT, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Lilies; Blake, William (1757-1827) INSOMNIA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! To sleep I vainly try Last Line: Surveying realms of lily light. Subject(s): Flowers; Insomnia; Lilies; Paris, France; Sleeplessness INTRUSION, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies sag with rain-drops Last Line: Your silence and the mist of soft words breaking it. ... Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Silence; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness JOHN EVERYMAN, by ARCHIBALD HAMILTON RUTLEDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In carrying more than mortals can Last Line: And this with all my heart I pray. Subject(s): Flowers; Humanity; Lilies KING OLAF'S LILIES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five lilies pulled king olaf Last Line: Upon the chamber floor. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Norway LEGEND OF THE LILY, by ANNIE WALL Poem Source First Line: Once, when this grand old earth was young Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LEOPARD LILIES, by VIRGINIA WALLACE RUNYON Poem Text First Line: Lest the forest seem too green Last Line: With accents of surprise. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LILIES, by EDNA DE LYNN Poem Text First Line: White lily, lovely flower! Last Line: One a banner of life! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs LILIES, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lilies, lilies, white lilies and yellow Last Line: Alas! I do not know! Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LILIES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look to the lilies how they grow!' Last Line: Transplanted from this world to heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies, ah, the lilies! Last Line: A lilied beauty bring. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies LILIES AFTER THE RAIN, by CARL W. HISER Poem Text First Line: White was the snow Last Line: After the rain. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LILIES AND ROSES, by IBN AL-QUTIYA Poem Text First Line: Drink you with the lily white Last Line: Fanned to flame by breezes blowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Al-qutiyyah, Aby Bakr Muhammad Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses LILIES FOR ROSALIE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raise your heads, ye virgin lilies Last Line: You shall live with rosalie. Subject(s): Flowers; Leaves; Lilies; Virginity; Vestals LILIES I, by AMY LYNN SIPPLE Poem Source First Line: Labored breaths Last Line: He swore the lilies gave him breath Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Peace; Rest LILIES II, by AMY LYNN SIPPLE Poem Source First Line: The lark rang %its spectacular overture Last Line: In his cherry rocker Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Peace LILIES IN NEW YORK, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A drawing: smudged shadow, deep worked areas of graphite Last Line: Open. And who could hope to draw that? Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LILIES IN THEIR ARMS, by HAZEL S. MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: There will be brides in june-time; they will go Last Line: Remember brides are tender, fragile things. Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Flowers; June; Lilies; Nightmares LILIES OF THE FIELD, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: When I went up to nazareth Last Line: With all their ancient eloquence %the lilies spoke of him! Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Lilies LILIES OF THE VALLEY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bells of a music softly spoken Last Line: Pray, o pray! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LILY, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON Poem Source First Line: Emblem of beauty and sorrow Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LILY AND A LUTE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I opened the eyes of my soul Last Line: Break her heart, and furl her wings %on those inexpressive strings Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Lutes; Music And Musicians LILY AND ROSE, by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lily of white innocence, and sweet red rose Last Line: Thou needest thorns around thee. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Innocence; Lilies; Roses; Thorns LILY EVENTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A man and a woman looking for lilies Last Line: The top right down to the roots Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LOVE, by JAROSLAV SEIFERT Poem Source First Line: Dying of cholera Last Line: We die of love Subject(s): Death; Lilies Of The Valley; Love LOVE'S COMPARINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carnations and lilies are hueless Last Line: Wherever her feet may fare. Subject(s): Carnations; Faces; Flowers; Hair; Laughter; Lilies; Love; Spring LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose and the lily, the dove and the sun Last Line: Is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll dip my spirit discreetly Last Line: In a wondrous moment of bliss. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Songs MESSENGER NIGHTINGALE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightingale, nightingale, / guest of my bower Last Line: Lilies to roses. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Love; Nightingales; Roses MORBIDEZZA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White girl, your flesh is lilies Last Line: The alluring scent of lilies! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies MUSIC FOR LILIES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Could be my breast's slip cover Last Line: Aftermath %of a quick empire Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies NEW SPRING: 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warm and balmy spring-night's air Last Line: Of the lily I ought to beware me. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies NEW SPRING: 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slender water-lily Last Line: Lying before her feet. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies NUNS PAINTING WATER-LILIES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pods are part of the growth of life within life Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies NUNS PAINTING WATER-LILIES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pods are part of the growth of life within life Last Line: Or accessible only in the most furtive fiction Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies OF ALL THE LILIES OF THE FIELD, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source Last Line: That it was him I chose and held %of all the lilies of the field Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies PIPPA AND HER FLOWERS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Her flowers? The martagon flame-lily glowing Last Line: Shames into silence death's despairful creed. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Girls; Happiness; Heart's-ease (flower); Lilies; Dead, The; Joy; Delight POND-LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In early morning, when the air Last Line: The brooding haze, the trembling flush. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies PRELUDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a grove of ilex Last Line: This is the gift of the flower of dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Lilies; Love; Rome, Italy; Nightmares PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 5, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My blessed lord, art thou a lilly flower? Last Line: Thou lilly of the vallys, being mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Puritans In Literature PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 132, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon my lord, I humbly beg the same Last Line: My breath shall lilly tunes sweet sing to thee. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Puritans In Literature PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 132, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon, my lord, I humbly beg the same Last Line: My breath shall lilly tunes sweet sing to thee Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Puritans In Literature REFLECTION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where closing water lilies are Last Line: How water-lilies grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O rose the red and white lily Last Line: Gin she this sight did see! Subject(s): Flowers;lilies;marriage;roses; Weddings;husbands;wives SEA LILY, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reed / slashed and torn Last Line: To cover you with froth. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Lilies SOLITUDE AND THE LILY, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bend above the moving stream Last Line: And, if illusion, feel it true. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Solitude; Loneliness SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 103, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white water-lilies, they sleep on the lake Last Line: Thy spirit comes back to its flowerlike home. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 4. MATER LILIORUM, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the remembering hours of night Last Line: Mother of lilies, pity me! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Soul STAR LILIES, by CHERYL LATIF Poem Source First Line: Soil still between your fingers, you lead me through the garden. It is early Last Line: Upstairs, the star lilies. Their fragrant flesh becoming translucent. Soon %petals will fall, one by Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Lilies THE ALL-KIND MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, whatever is at hand Last Line: "at her merciful ""arise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Mothers; Nature THE BATTLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There was a battle in her face Last Line: To battle for my sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses THE CLOTE (WATER-LILY), by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O zummer clote! When the brook's a-gliden Last Line: Thy flow'r afloat, goolden zummer clote! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Summer THE CRY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not hear her crying Last Line: To find her before I die! Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; God; Grass; Lakes; Lilies; Woods; Pools; Ponds THE DAISY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little daisy Last Line: In field and garden everywhere Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing on, sing ever, and let sobs arise Last Line: An universe, a god, a living ever. [she dies. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Songs THE LAURELS ARE FELLED, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled Last Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled. Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grass; Laurels; Lilies; Woods THE LILIES OF THE FIELD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers! When the saviour's calm benignant eye Last Line: Than yours, ye lilies! Chosen thus and graced! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Religion; Theology THE LILY, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, on the river banks we knew Last Line: And wore it at the ball that night. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory of flowers! Pre-eminent o'er all Last Line: The virgin mother of all nations blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE LILY, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that after wandering long I came Last Line: And as I walked beside her, I awoke. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilies; Nightmares THE LILY, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How withered, perish'd seems the form / of yon obscure unsightly root Last Line: Eternal spring! Shall burst the gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY AND THE LINDEN, by FRED CROSBY Poem Text First Line: Far away under skies of blue Last Line: And gilded the grave of the lily fair. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Nature THE LILY AND THE ROSE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph must lose her female friend Last Line: They reign united there. Subject(s): Flowers; Great Britain; Lilies; Roses THE LILY AND THE ROSE, by VICTORIEN SARDOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A secret I wish to disclose Last Line: United to form a bouquet. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses THE LILY OF MALUD, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lily of malud is born in secret mud Last Line: But she knows not what it was. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies THE LILY OF THE RESURRECTION, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the lily dwells in earth Last Line: Dies a bulb, to live a flower! Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE LILY OF THE VALE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See bending to the gentle gale Last Line: That blossoms in this wild retreat. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the hare-bells are ringing Last Line: Sign the warrant for its death. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Lilies Of The Valley; Dead, The THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest of the flowers a-blooming Last Line: In the valley shades of death. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had found out a sweet green spot Last Line: Who will soon as dimly die. Subject(s): Lilies Of The Valley; Nature; Summer THE LILY OF YORROW, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the heart of the forest the lily Last Line: He has discovered it first, and perhaps I shall find it to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY POND, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: O lily-pond, thy early charm Last Line: The changing permanent. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY SPEAKS, by ELSIE FRANKLIN Poem Text First Line: Gay little lily Last Line: "its language is god!" Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The modest rose puts forth a thorn Last Line: Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Lilies; Mythology THE LOTOS AND THE LILY: THE LILY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: View us, white-robed lilies Last Line: To true love's completeness, Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LOVELY CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilies are both pure and fair Last Line: Than a primrose, blossoming? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Childhood THE MARIPOSA LILY, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insect or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing Last Line: Thou winged bloom! Thou blossom-butterfly! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Plants; Planting; Planters THE OPENING OF THE LILIES, by GRACE ROBERTSON TUTTLE Poem Text First Line: In the still cool of the morning Last Line: Gold centers to the sky. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE RED LILY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call her the red lily. Lo! She stands Last Line: As, woven once, what lordliest will can break? Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE REVERSE OF THE GOLDEN SHIELD (AN EASTER MORNING REVERIE), by WILL MAJOR MAUPIN Poem Text First Line: Along the chancel rail, and on the altar stair Last Line: Starve, and within the shadow of his church to-day. Subject(s): Churches; Easter; Flowers; God; Holidays; Lilies; Prayer; Cathedrals; The Resurrection THE ROCK-LILY (NEW SOUTH WALES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The amber-tinted level sands Last Line: The glory of these austral plains. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Flowers; Lilies THE ROMANCE OF THE LILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever love the lily pale Last Line: Of the closing gates of hell. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Magic; Story-telling; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE SECRET GARDEN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way you see it first is through Last Line: Before we're through with tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Flowers; Food & Eating; Gardens & Gardening; Green (color); Guests; Lilies; Secrets; Tea; Worms; Visiting THE SPLENDOR OF LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, rare as the splendor of lilies Last Line: To carpet a path for our king. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE STAR AND THE WATER LILY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun stepped down from his golden throne Last Line: And sank in the stormy tide. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Stars THE SUMMER IS ENDED (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathe no more lilies in my hair Last Line: Only a little while. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Summer; Dead, The THE TULIP AND THE LILY, SELECTION, by JAMES BARCLAY Poem Text First Line: To these proud taunts and more beside Last Line: "perfumes e'en cloe's fragrant breath." Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Lilies; Beekeeping; Bugs THE WATER LILY, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O star on the breast of the river! Last Line: "they rise -- to the sweetest place." Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE WATER LILY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Beautiful thou art Last Line: As from a shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE WATER LILY FAIRY, by MARGUERITE FRANZISKA ERNST Poem Text First Line: There's an alabaster palace Last Line: And blossoms of delight. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE WATER-LILY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence, o fragrant form of light Last Line: Left her garment in the tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Plants; Trees; Planting; Planters THE WATERED LILIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The master stood in his garden Last Line: To water his flowers again Subject(s): Flowers;lilies;religion; Theology THY LILIES DRINK THE DEW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Spotless and sweet,thy lamb to follow thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Lilies; Lambs; God TIGER LILIES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like not lady-slippers Last Line: That in our garden grow Subject(s): Tiger Lilies TIGER LILY, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tiger lily is a panther Last Line: And between them a little silver spider %hangs from a thread Subject(s): Tiger Lilies TIGER LILY, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray are the gardens of our celtic lands Last Line: Spring after spring. Subject(s): Ireland; Tiger Lilies; Irish TIGER-LILIES, by EDMUND WENDT Poem Text First Line: The angle is inside the curve, but none Last Line: Silly, but after all, why should we mind it? Subject(s): Tiger Lilies TIGER-LILY, by RAQUEL CHALFI Poem Source First Line: One dakness %I was a tiger-lily Last Line: All that a plant can, all that a beast can %one night Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies TO A LILY, by JAMES MATHEWES LEGARE Poem Text First Line: Go bow thy head in gentle spite Last Line: And make thy leaf a stain. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies TO A SHASTA LILY, by ORVILLE WILLIS JONES Poem Text First Line: In god's cathedral of the open wood Last Line: Like you, with sure feet march to purple age. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies TO A WATER LILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dream, dream / perfume-laden one!" Last Line: Drowsy in dream! Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;lilies;perfume;sleep; Nightmares TO A WATER-LILY, by C. WENTWORTH Poem Text First Line: Thin ivory petals upon dark blue waters Last Line: Between the hills. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Romance TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: DEDICATION, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: It is somewhat like painting the lily Last Line: Of thoughts which are portrayed by you. Subject(s): Beauty; Character; Flowers; Lilies TO MY FIOR-DI-LISA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose is love's own flower, and love's no less Last Line: In the deep-hearted rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses TO THE END, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are lilies for her sisters Last Line: And leaning from the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Death; Flowers; Heaven; Lilies; Love; Dead, The; Paradise TWO EASTER LILIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the reed of scorn Last Line: Her lord to greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; The Resurrection VALLEY LILIES, by NELLIE S. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Month of bold winds, you are stealing the snow Last Line: Do not uncover them, march, till the last. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies VENILIA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the faint shores of the foamless gulf Last Line: When on the gay wind swims the yellow leaf. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Circe; Flowers; Lilies; Silence VILLANELLE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies whisper in the park Last Line: Wan ghosts that haunt the fragrant dark. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies WATER LILIES, by G. W. D. Poem Text First Line: The hours are water lilies Last Line: Unutterably dear! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love WATER LILIES, by IBN HAMDIS Poem Text First Line: Drink by the pool Last Line: Their tongues of flame. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies WATER LILIES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you have forgotten water lilies floating Last Line: And the shadow of mountains will not fall on your heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies WATER LILIES; A FAIRY SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come away, elves! While the dew is sweet Last Line: And the life of the lily may not be long. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Lilies; Elves WATER-LILIES, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water-lilies on the meadow stream Last Line: In dangerous deeps, yet out of danger's way. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies WATER-LILY, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lily floated white and red Last Line: But beauty is its own reward, %being a form of peace Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies WHAT IT TAKES, by OLGA ABELLA Poem Source First Line: Tiger lillies stand erect by my mother's house Last Line: And hear her soft accent in my own voice Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Tiger Lilies WHERE LILIES FLOAT, by ANNIE C. SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: Three children played where lilies float Last Line: Of grace to feed the lean of soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Lilies WHITE EASTER LILIES, by BLANCHE MALLERY PAYNE Poem Text First Line: Rows of stately easter lilies stood shining and purely white Last Line: Was first an easter lily pure, and grew in god's own care. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology WHITE ROSE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the inland valleys Last Line: And the lily died. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Spring WITHIN THE VEIL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She holds a lily in her hand Last Line: But sure one day to be mine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Roses YOU WANT ME WHITE, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source Last Line: Pretend I'm snowy, %pretend I'm chaste Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Sisters |
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