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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PLANT WONDERS, by FLORENCE CROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wonder if my growth had started soon
Last Line: A little pot plant, perfect, miniature.
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


A WINDFLOWER, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the roadside and the wood
Last Line: Between the woodside and the road!
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters


AERIAL GEOGRAPHIES, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: An aerial broad view of landscape, high
Last Line: African genes. Ethnic dna...Aboriginal cave glyphs may point a way
Subject(s): Barbados; Earth; Farm Life; Flowers; Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Plants; Sugar


AIR PLANT; GRAND CAYMAN, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This tuft that thrives on saline nothingness
Last Line: By what conjunctions do the winds appoint %its apotheosis, at last - the hurricane!
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Plants


ALL IN THE FAMILY, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For the first time in memory
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


AN OLD FRONT YARD, by JESSIE GIDLEY CARTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flushed peonies bend above the flagstones gray
Last Line: As in those radiant, roselit junes of old.
Subject(s): Plants; Wellesley College; Planting; Planters


BERRIES ON THE BUSHES, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Plants


BLACK SNAKE; 6, by RAUL BOPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pass the swamp borders
Last Line: Undid undeciphered writings
Subject(s): Forests; Plants; Travel; Trees; Wanderers And Wandering


BLOSSOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For this the fruit, for this the seed
Last Line: Forgets utility.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


BOTANIST TO HER SUBJECT, by LIA PURPURA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because I know you
Last Line: I turn on and off at will?
Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Plants


BUDS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The raining hour is done
Last Line: Of that companionship.
Subject(s): April; May (month); Plants; Planting; Planters


BULBS FOR SPRING BLOOMING, by VIRGINIA RUSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Planting these inert globes in new dug mound
Last Line: Still in deep crocus heart dwells the cool pearl.
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


CHICORY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


COLUMBINE, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I strolled along the beaten way
Last Line: The eye to charm, the ear to bless.
Subject(s): Columbines; Plants; Planting; Planters


COLUMBINES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Late were we sleeping
Subject(s): Columbines; Gardens And Gardening; Plants


COLUMBINES; SUMMER - 1982, by JOHN MINCZESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Columbines are blooming right now, between the honeysuckle
Last Line: They have given up claims to royalty forever
Subject(s): Columbines; Plants; Summer


CONTRABAND, by INA H. BEAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovelier than the glow
Last Line: The prairie's contraband.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Plants; Agriculture; Farmers; Planting; Planters


COPA DE ORO (CALIFORNIA POPPY), by INA DONNA COOLBRITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy satin vesture richer is than looms
Last Line: Brimmed with the golden vintage of the sun.
Subject(s): Plants; Poppies; Planting; Planters


COUNTRY LORE: SOWING DAYS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sow your wheat in muddy weather
Last Line: In the dust your barley sow
Subject(s): Farm Life;plants; Agriculture;farmers;planting;planters


CROCUS, by WALTER CRANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The golden crocus reaches up
Last Line: To catch a sunbeam in her cup
Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Spring


CROCUS, by SARAH J. DAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crocus had slept in his little round house
Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants


CROCUS, by MARY ELLIOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Matilda, come hither, I pray
Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants


CROCUS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When trees have lost remembrance of the leaves
Last Line: And then lead on again the universe?
Subject(s): Crocuses; Earth; Plants; Universe; World; Planting; Planters


CROCUSES, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Desires
Last Line: Of ivory, purple, and gold.
Subject(s): Crocuses; Desire; May (month); Plants; Planting; Planters


CROCUSES, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They come / by stealth, spreading
Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Seasons; Planting; Planters


CROCUSES, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They come %by stealth, spreading
Last Line: Of an army still massing %just to the south
Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Seasons


CROCUSES, by ANNA M. PLATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A kind voice calls, 'come, little ones'
Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants


CROCUSES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sunrise tints the dew
Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants


CYCLAMENS, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are terribly white
Last Line: Of this handful of cyclamen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Cyclamen; Plants; Planting; Planters


DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER: SHEAF, by CHRISTOPHER PATTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The papyrus root
Last Line: Seawrack on a weak and brackish wave
Subject(s): Nature; Plants; Sea


DISAPPOINTED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: An old man planted and dug and tended
Last Line: "arise, old man, and plant again!"
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


EDUCATION'S MARTYR, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He loved peculiar plants and rare
Last Line: Seeks for the secret cause!
Subject(s): Plants


ELECAMPANE, JASMINE, VINE, AND OLEANDER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Elecampane has no hope, but it has a connection
Last Line: What will never be calmed
Subject(s): Plants


EMBLEMS, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where sweet ferns blow, where hemlock shadows lie
Last Line: The living trees are emblems of our dead!
Subject(s): Death; Plants; Trees; Dead, The; Planting; Planters


EROTIC ENERGY, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't tell me we're not like plants
Subject(s): Plants; Coming Of Age; Girls; Planting; Planters


EXPERIMENT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast a lap full of seed
Last Line: Some stinking weed
Variant Title(s): "o Lapwing;""thou Hast A Lap Full Of Seed"";
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Plants; Seeds; Planting; Planters


FALSE START, by MABEL DODGE LUHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ask me no more of the full flower's speech
Last Line: I sicken from sunlight but give me the rain, for I am but seed.
Subject(s): Growth; Nature; Plants; Rain; Sun; Planting; Planters


FLORA, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remote from scenes, where the o'erwearied mind
Last Line: Afford an antepast of paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Planting; Planters


FLOWERS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will not have the mad cytie
Last Line: For fairest of all is she.
Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Roses; Planting; Planters


FROM THE UNDERGROUND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, before the wintry gale
Last Line: Comes drifting to the light!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


GARDEN RELIEF, by MARGARET PITCAIRN STRACHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Did you ever carry water
Last Line: Upon their bended knees?
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


GARDENING: HOLLYWOOD LANE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To buy peat, dung, it was crazy
Last Line: Rooted on her windowsill
Subject(s): Dahlias; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Plants


GIVING THE FERN A SECOND CHANCE, by EVE E.M. WOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Symied in its soil the maidenhair fern refused to grow
Last Line: That was it %that was all it would take to keep me
Subject(s): Growth; Guilt; Lies; Plants


GOLDENROD, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the wayside tangles blaze
Last Line: Goldenrod!
Subject(s): Goldenrod; Plants; Planting; Planters


GRAINFIELD, by IBN IYAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look at the ripe wheat
Last Line: From the wounds of the poppies
Subject(s): Plants


GREEN LIES, by PAULA TATARUNIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ivy %so long and lovingly
Last Line: Bruises dressed up %as peonies
Subject(s): Bruises; Plants


GREEN THINGS GROWING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the green things growing, the green things growing
Last Line: If I may change into green things growing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Growth; Plants; Planting; Planters


HEALALL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the daily love, grass high
Last Line: It will cure her.
Subject(s): Healing; Plants; Cures; Planting; Planters


HEARTSEASE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: While o'er my life still hung the morning star
Last Line: I sing through life with heart's-ease at my breast
Subject(s): Plants;trees; Planting;planters


HEPATICAS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are like sky children
Last Line: "at this miracle of spring!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Hepatica; Plants; Spring; Joy; Delight; Planting; Planters


HOME, by BART SOLARCZYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drunk in the backyard again
Last Line: My neighbor's late tomatoes %understand
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Home; Plants


HOUSEPLANTS IN WINTER, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their survival seems an open question
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


HOW FOOLISH THE HOUSEPLANT LOOKS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like hands to be kissed
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Plants


HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain
Last Line: The day being done.
Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Sun; Swamps; Trees; Planting; Planters; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


IMPROMPTU, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind is a puddle in the street reflecting green sirius
Last Line: And a wine-cup reflecting sirius in the water held in my hands.
Subject(s): Mortality; Plants; Planting; Planters


IN A GREENHOUSE, by FLORA T. MERCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long rows of dull white boxes filled with / loam
Last Line: To all the beauty of infinity.
Subject(s): Flowers; Greenhouses; Plants; Spring; Planting; Planters


IN SHIMMERING ROBES, by VIRGINIA SPATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: They told me when a wondering child
Last Line: Brings shining visions down to earth.
Subject(s): Children; Plants; Trees; Childhood; Planting; Planters


IN THE GARDEN - FOR BOBBIE KEVELSON, by MICHAEL DAVID RILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each day the old man clipped a leaf
Last Line: And memory a life fallen leaf by leaf %into the garden of humility
Subject(s): Examinations; Leaves; Plants


IN THE GREENHOUSE, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lemon bushes overflowed
Subject(s): Plants


IT IS A SMALL PLANT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Forty times over, forty times / over—namelessly
Subject(s): Plants; Desire


KILLING THE PLANTS, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That year I discovered the virtues
Last Line: Flowers, the example of persistence
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


LA CONDITION BOTANIQUE, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Romans, rhuematic, gouty, came
Last Line: His daily and all-nourishing bread
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


LESSON IN LOVE, by MAX GARLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: By february I find myself
Last Line: Winter blossom, neither %man nor woman
Subject(s): Love; Plants


LINES ON THE SNOWDROP, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet, modest, pensive, tender flower
Last Line: In meek devotion to the skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Flowers; Snowdrops (plants)


LOOK THROUGH THE NAKED BRAMBLE AND BLACK THORN, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beneath the hedges in their leafless stray
Subject(s): Plants


LOUISIANA IRIS, by BIN RAMKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hybridizing naturally, they come
Subject(s): Iris (flower); Plants - Breeding


MARCH CROCUSES, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fickle and uncertain march
Last Line: Are underneath the snow!
Subject(s): Crocuses; March (month); Plants; Planting; Planters


MELILOT, by MUNA LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the house is the millet plot
Last Line: All but the smell of the white melilot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee
Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Plants; Planting; Planters


MERRY-GO-ROUND, by JOHN WILLIAM SCHOLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Men plow their fields, manure and plant
Last Line: To honor the god of things that be.
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


MOVING AWAY FROM AN EVENT, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So I am thinking of chinese lanterns
Last Line: Dried, %they keep their color all winter
Subject(s): Flowers; Plants


MY GEOMANCER, by RACHEL LODEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Says this month you should repot
Last Line: If arrogance will force a flower %both ruthless and luxuriant
Subject(s): Home; Plants


MY LADY ANEMONE, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath soft snows harsh winter lingering
Last Line: Beneath soft snows.
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters


MY MEADOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, it's still the loveliest meadow in all vermont
Last Line: Maybe I have lived too long with the world
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plants; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Planting; Planters


MY VENUS FLY TRAP IS DYING, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because it frightens me
Last Line: Trying so hard to be a tree %can't bear it
Subject(s): Plants; Vegetarians


NARCISSUS, by NELL BARNES KNORR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little brown bulb in a little brown bowl
Last Line: Little brown bulb how you've brightened our place!
Subject(s): Bulbs; Growth; Plants; Planting; Planters


NIGHT BLOOMING CACTUS, by MARK MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is my prisoner. The cell
Last Line: The color of passenger pigeons %if you could see them
Subject(s): Growth; Plants


NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pushed away a nearly
Last Line: Throbbing, in the present
Subject(s): Plants


NONSENSE BOTANY: 1, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baccopipia gracilis bottlephorkia spoonifolia
Last Line: Plumbunnia nutritiosa pollybirdia singularis
Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Nonsense; Plants


NONSENSE BOTANY: 2, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Barkia howlaloudia enkoopia chickabiddia
Last Line: Washtubbia circularis tigerlillia terribilis
Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Nature; Plants


NONSENSE BOTANY: 3, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Armchairia comfortabillis bassia palealensis
Last Line: Puffia leatherbellowsa queeriflora babyoides
Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Nature; Plants; Vegetables


NOTE ON LOCAL FLORA, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a tree native in turkestan
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


NOTE ON LOCAL FLORA, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a tree native in turkestan
Last Line: So semele desired her deity %as this in kew thirsts for the red dawn
Subject(s): Plants


NOW I AM A PLANT, A WEED, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Plants; Farewell; Planting; Planters; Parting


ON THE DATURA ARBOREA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Majestic plant! Such fairy dreams as lie
Last Line: Free through the starry heavens of truth divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Datura Plants


ONLY THYME, by CATHRYN HANKLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pull you out by the roots, fierce love
Last Line: Of consciousness, leaving only this
Subject(s): Love; Plants; Spring; Thyme


ORDER OF THE BLACK CHRYSANTHEMUM, by CAROL JANE BANGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was no taking of solemn vows
Last Line: On each tightened wrist a blot of ink %feathers out like a hybrid flower
Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Plants - Breeding


PANAMA; HOME OF THE DOVE-PLANT OR HOLY GHOST FLOWER, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: What time the lord drew back the sea
Last Line: Let all men pass who come in love.)
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Plants; Canal Zone; Planting; Planters


PARTHEONOCISSUS, by CAROL L. REINSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday I surpised a shy vine
Last Line: Holding my house in her ten thousand arms
Subject(s): Plants


PITCHER PLANT, by PETER L. SIMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They're singing harmony
Subject(s): Pitcher Plants


PLANT POEM, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shrimp plant on my desk had one long low branch
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


PLANTS, by MARIO AZZOPARDI    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when the spirits of horses ride the wind
Subject(s): Plants


PLANTS AND MEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You berries once
Last Line: Of plants and men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


PRAISE OF CREATED THINGS, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Be thou praised, my lord, with all thy creatures
Last Line: And produces divers fruits with colored flowers, and herbs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San
Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Moon; Plants; Sun; World; Planting; Planters


PRAISES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vegetables please us with their modes and virtues
Last Line: Flowers, love's language, love, heart's ease, poems, praise
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Plants; Praise; Vegetables; Planting; Planters


PRENUPTIAL, by KATHLEEN LYNCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My daughter calls to urge me
Last Line: And there will be fruit, mom. %edible fruit
Subject(s): Growth; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Plants


PROPAGATION, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If botanic roots are divided
Last Line: Hold me – to hell with everything else
Subject(s): Plants; Love; Man-woman Relationships


PURPLE CROCUSES, by ALIKI BARNSTONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seduced by el nino's eastern balm
Last Line: Spread under the fence to share themselves with neighbors %unownable fleeting musical notes for the
Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants


PUTTING IN THE SEED, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You come to fetch me from my work tonight
Last Line: Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.
Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Plants; Childhood; Planting; Planters


RESIDENT WORM, by JAMES HAYFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pitcher plant makes a living by
Subject(s): Pitcher Plants


ROMAN ANEMONES, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The maiden meadows softly blush
Last Line: Transfigured into flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters


SAFE AND SOUND (A LITTLE ACTION SONG), by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Safe and sound in the ground
Last Line: While mr. Rough wind rides around
Subject(s): Plants; Seeds; Winter; Spring


SEA ANEMONES, by GWEN HARWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey mountains, sea and sky. Even the misty
Last Line: Not flowers, no, animals that must eat or die
Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants


SERENA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In paraguayan forests there's a flower
Last Line: And thee than autumn roses!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Forests; Paraguay; Plants; Woods; Planting; Planters


SEVEN MARIA: 2. MARE IMBRIUM, by LARISSA SZPORLUK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The plants have gone to witchcraft
Last Line: And the dirt lies quiet at the bottom
Subject(s): Absence; Moon; Plants


SHADES OF GREEN, by FORREST BENJAMIN ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I too am partial to the shades of green
Last Line: They'd be a tree -- a bush -- the flowers -- sods.
Subject(s): Green (color); Plants; Planting; Planters


SIGNATURES, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Plants; Planting; Planters


SNOWDROP, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Close to the sod
Subject(s): Religion; Snowdrops (plants)


SNOWDROP, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sheath pierces the turf
Last Line: A pale green testicle
Subject(s): Snowdrops (plants)


SONNET: 128, by LUIS DE CAMOENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There blooms a plant, whose gaze, from hour.
Last Line: Born but to live within thine eye-beam's power.
Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De
Subject(s): Plants; Transience


STUMPS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The field is studded with their thousand lives
Last Line: Crops like mine are not so much planted as buried
Subject(s): Plants


SUNFLOWER, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What sower walked over earth
Last Line: Let the calm hands of grief come. %it's not all as evil as you think
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Plants; Sunflowers


TALKING TO MY PHILODENDRON, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green passion on the horizon of my waking
Last Line: On the breast, leaves, of my animal dreams
Subject(s): Plants


TANKA DIARY (5), by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Instead of scanning newspaper headlines,
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


TARAHUMARA HERBS, by ALFONSO REYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tarahumara indians have come down, %sign of a bad year
Last Line: In heaps upon the ground-- %perfect in their natural natural science
Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Herbs; Medicine; Native Americans; Plants


THE ANEMONE; ON FINDING ANEMONE HEPATICA THE EARLIEST FLOWER OF SPRING, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside a fading bank of snow
Last Line: How soon will all around be spring!
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters


THE ANXIOUS FARMER, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was awful long ago
Last Line: For every single seed!
Subject(s): Children; Plants; Childhood; Planting; Planters


THE BLOOM, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are these ancients, gnarl'd and moss'd
Last Line: Sweetness in stormy air.
Subject(s): Plants; Trres


THE CROCUS, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the frozen earth below
Last Line: Till a sunbeam dissolve it into the same.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor
Subject(s): Crocuses; Nature; Plants; Planting; Planters


THE CROCUS, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On mountains the crocus
Last Line: So she breathes the sun-song of the crocus, -- reveal it, repeat it, who can!
Subject(s): Crocuses; Love; Plants; Planting; Planters


THE CROCUS BED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yellow as the noonday sun
Last Line: Crocuses must leave us soon.
Subject(s): Crocuses; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Plants; Spring; Planting; Planters


THE CYCLAMEN, by ARLO BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the plains where persian hosts
Last Line: If she but live, what are the dead!
Subject(s): Cyclamen; Plants; Planting; Planters


THE EXPERIMENT STATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright squares of grasses, differently green
Last Line: And one least corner with new verdure fill!
Subject(s): Plants - Breeding; Hybridization, Plants


THE GARDEN-MAKER, by L. D. MORSBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: An old slat bonnet hid her face
Last Line: Gave gladly back the smile of god.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Plants; Vegetables; Planting; Planters


THE HEATH, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the wide heath, where the unequal ground
Last Line: Of their hard lot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


THE HOP GARDEN: BOOK 1: HOPS AND PROPS, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When phoebus looks through aries on the right
Last Line: They've felt; 'tis then we fell sublimer props.
Subject(s): Cold; Plants; Seasons; Winter; Youth; Planting; Planters


THE HOROLOGE OF THE FIELDS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For her who owns this splendid toy
Last Line: As light they dance among the flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


THE INDIAN CORN PLANTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He needs must leave the trapping and the chase
Last Line: With fostering richness, mothers every grain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Native Americans; Plants; Hunters; Work; Workers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Planting; Planters


THE IVY GREEN, by CHARLES DICKENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green
Last Line: A rare old plant is the ivy green.
Variant Title(s): English Ivy
Subject(s): Decay; Ivy; Plants; Rot; Decadence; Planting; Planters


THE JAPANESE ANEMONE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All summer the breath of the roses around
Last Line: And dead long ago, being lovely for ever.
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters


THE LITTLE PLANT ON THE WINDOW SPEAKS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you had let me stay all winter long / outside
Last Line: And great big gardens call you out to play.
Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; January; Plants; Play; Childhood; Planting; Planters


THE MAIZE, by WILLIAM WHITEMAN FOSDICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A song for the plant of my own native west
Last Line: Who sent us from heaven the maize!
Subject(s): Corn; Plants; Planting; Planters


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 MOSS ROSE, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The angel of the flowers, one day
Last Line: Could there a flower that rose exceed?
Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Roses; Planting; Planters


THE MOUNTAIN FERN, by ARTHUR GERALD GEOGHEGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the fern! The fern! - the irish hill fern!
Last Line: T is the green flag of time, 't is the irish hill fern.
Subject(s): Ferns; Plants; Planting; Planters


THE NETTLE-KING, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a nettle both great and strong
Last Line: But he said not a word, and went his way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Poisons & Poisoning; Planting; Planters


THE NORTHWEST CORNER, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish that nate had let me grow
Last Line: I did not dare!
Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Roses; Planting; Planters


THE PLANTING, by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have planted a tree
Last Line: I have planted a tree.
Subject(s): Plants; Prayer; Snow; Trees; Planting; Planters


THE PLANTING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Plant it safe and sure, my child
Last Line: "it will grow while thou art sleeping."
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


THE PUMPKIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Greenly and fair in the lands of the sun
Last Line: Golden-tinted and fair as thy own pumpkin-pie!
Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Pumpkins; Thanksgiving Day; Planting; Planters


THE PYXIDANTHERA, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet child of april, I have found thy place
Last Line: And every hour be touched with grace and light.
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


THE QUESTION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way
Last Line: That I might there present it! -- oh! To whom?
Variant Title(s): A Dream Of Spring;a Dream Of The Unknown;shelley's Lists
Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Rivers; Spring; Planting; Planters


THE SEA-POPPY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A poppy grows upon the shore
Last Line: Where she sits shivering and forlorn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Plants; Poppies; Planting; Planters


THE SENSITIVE PLANT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sensitive plant in a garden grew
Last Line: No light, being themselves obscure.
Variant Title(s): To The Sensitive Plant;a Garden
Subject(s): Permanence; Plants; Women; Planting; Planters


THE SENSITIVE PLANT: A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, ask the nymph with beauty blest
Last Line: And modesty, when in the mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


THE SILENCE OF PLANTS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A one-sided relationship is developing quite well between you and me.
Subject(s): Plants; Relationships; Planting; Planters


THE SMALL CELANDINE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a flower, the lesser celandine
Last Line: Age might but take the things youth needed not!
Variant Title(s): A Lesson;the Celandine
Subject(s): Celandine; Plants; Planting; Planters


THE SNOW-DROP, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow-drop, winter's timid child
Last Line: And wept and shrunk like thee
Subject(s): Snowdrops (plants)


THE SNOWDROP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fear no more, thou timid flower
Last Line: A snow-drop mid the snow.
Variant Title(s): The Apotheosis, Or The Snow-drop
Subject(s): Consolation; Snowdrops (plants)


THE SNOWDROP, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: How comest thou, o flower so fair
Last Line: Till comes the breath of spring.
Subject(s): Snowdrops (plants)


THE SOWER, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds had hushed at last as by command
Last Line: Will blossom and bear fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


THE SOWER, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When robert put the seed in, seed in, seed in
Last Line: A star like burning snow.
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


THE SOWER, by ELIZABETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the mild sun vanish the vapor's last wet traces
Last Line: With steady hand he paces afield without a mutter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis
Subject(s): Plants; Solitude; Planting; Planters; Loneliness


THE SOWER, by DOROTHY PRESSLER HILLYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the man who sows the seed
Last Line: How bravely a man can die.
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


THE SOWING, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: April is a man
Last Line: And we pray.
Subject(s): April; Plants; Seeds; Planting; Planters


THE SUGAR-CANE: THE SHAME OF FRANCE, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: False gallia's sons, that hoe the ocean isles
Last Line: And, with abhorrence, reprobate the name.
Subject(s): France; Grocers; Plants; Salespersons; Sugar; Planting; Planters; Selling


THE TREE GOD PLANTS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind that blows can never kill
Last Line: Forever grows
Subject(s): Growth;plants;trees; Planting;planters


THE VERNAL SHOWER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the lucid tears of may
Last Line: Sweet the balmy vernal shower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


THE WAR IN THE GORSE, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The warm, yellow gorse is a child of the noon
Last Line: And there's peace on the hill until spring.
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


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 WEEDS, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the lawn, beside the red house
Last Line: In the dusk of late summer.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mothers & Sons; Plants; Weeds; Planting; Planters


THE WOODSPURGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind flapped loose, the wind was still
Last Line: The woodspurge has a cup of three.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Plants; Sorrow; Sadness; Planting; Planters


THE YELLOW CROCUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you, little monarch, crowned
Last Line: Bow the knee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Planting; Planters


THREE NATURE POEMS: RESURECTION, by EVA HINTON ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a stir of life beneath the sod
Last Line: Narcissus blooms again -- is blessed to grow.
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


TO A CYCLAMEN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come to visit thee again
Last Line: We are but wither'd leaves at best.
Subject(s): Cyclamen; Plants; Planting; Planters


TO A DYING EXOTIC, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Lovely faded plant, the blight I mourn
Last Line: Like thee the flowers of pleasure smile and fade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wee, modest crimson-tipped flower
Last Line: Shall be thy doom!
Variant Title(s): A Mountain Daisy
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Plants; Plowing & Plowmen; Planting; Planters


TO A WILD CROCUS, by EDITH CAROLYN NEWLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: 16 ems
Last Line: Golden dregs, they left for me.
Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Planting; Planters


TO A WIND-FLOWER, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Teach me the secret of thy loveliness
Last Line: For beauty born of beauty -- that remains.
Variant Title(s): To A Windflower
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters


TO A YOUNG LADY, WITH A PRESENT OF TWO COCKSCOMBS, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two cockscombs wait at your command
Last Line: But then, to make amends, they both are mute.
Variant Title(s): Lines Sent With Two Coxcombs To Miss Green
Subject(s): Cockscombs (plants)


TO BE SENT IN A MAY BASKET, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's just one sprig of water-cress, another one of
Last Line: We gathered them together once, and so I send you these.
Subject(s): Plants; Wellesley College; Planting; Planters


TO BLOSSOMS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair pledges of a fruitful tree
Last Line: Into the grave.
Subject(s): Plants; Trees; Planting; Planters


TO DR. DARWIN, ON READING HIS LOVES OF PLANTS, by ELIZABETH MOODY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No bard e'er gave his tuneful powers
Last Line: To libel harmless trees and flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802); Linneaus (carl Von Linne) (1707-1778); Plants; Planting; Planters


TO GO, by HEATHER MCHUGH            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bees; Plants; Beekeeping; Planting; Planters


TO MARIE, WITH A COPY OF THE TRANSLATION OF FAUST, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This plant, it may be, grew from vigorous seed
Last Line: The form is mine, color and odor yours!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Faust; Plants; Translating & Interpreting; Planting; Planters


TO THE BLUE ANEMONE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower of starry clearness bright!
Last Line: Flower of soul, anemone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters


TO THE CROCUS, by MARION STURGES-JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The crocus grows in any spot
Subject(s): Crocuses; Love; Plants


TO THE CYCLAMEN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou cyclamen of crumpled horn
Last Line: Go, carry her this little song.
Subject(s): Cyclamen; Plants; Planting; Planters


TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou blossom bright with autumn dew
Last Line: May look to heaven as I depart.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Plants; Fringed Gentians; Planting; Planters


TO THE MAN AFTER THE HARROW, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now leave the check-reins slack
Last Line: For you are driving your horses through %the mist where genesis begins
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Plants


TO THE PAINTED COLUMBINE, by JONES VERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright image of the early years
Subject(s): Columbines; Plants


TO THE SMALL CELANDINE (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies
Last Line: Hymns in praise of what I love!
Variant Title(s): To The Small Celandine
Subject(s): Celandine; Plants; Planting; Planters


TO THE SMALL CELANDINE (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pleasures newly found are sweet
Last Line: Who will love my little flower.
Variant Title(s): To The Same Flower
Subject(s): Celandine; Plants; Planting; Planters


TO THE SNOW-DROP, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like pendant flakes of vegetating snow
Last Line: To childhood's pleasures, and to infant friends.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Snowdrops (plants)


TRINKET, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love watching the water
Last Line: Small enough to contain it.
Subject(s): Plants; Self; Time; Water; Planting; Planters


TULIPS, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thousand tulip bulbs she bought last autumn
Last Line: The beauty that she grubbed and planted for.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Plants; Spring; Tulips; Planting; Planters


TWIG FELL, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A twig fell on the gate and dozed
Last Line: No fruit and no shoot
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Plants


VEGETABLE EMERGENCY, by MAXINE CHERNOFF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is something new among the vegetables in my garden this morn
Last Line: The head has vowed silence
Subject(s): Leaves; Plants; Vegetables


VERNAL PICTURES (WITHOUT AND WITHIN), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid fresh roses wandering, and the soft
Last Line: "song like the swallow darts through fancy's sky."
Subject(s): Morning; Plants; Planting; Planters


WHAT GOES WRONG, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the plants you give me die
Last Line: My love, how shall I keep you %safe from my love?
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Plants


WHITE ANEMONE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the white anemone, fashioned so
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants


WHITE CURRANTS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I give you white currants?
Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters


WILD ANEMONE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll call it the daring
Last Line: The wild anemone %the daring flower
Subject(s): Anemone; Plants


WILD COLUMBINE, by JANE MCKAY LANNING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hands of god move exceedingly fine
Last Line: God sets the bells ringing of wild columbine.
Subject(s): Columbines; Plants; Planting; Planters


WINTER UNDER CULTIVATION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is as arable as spring
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1707; Poem: 172
Subject(s): Plants


YELLOW FLOWERS, by BERTHA GERNEAUX WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The painted-cups, the pitcher-plants
Subject(s): Flowers; Pitcher Plants


YELLOW PITCHER PLANT, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowering stomach %scroll of leaf
Last Line: Of a sated petal %an enzyme's cruelty
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Pitcher Plants


YUCCA, by AARON KRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Halfway down the street in early july
Last Line: Held me. That day I brought back to my rooms %more than the times. I know when the yucca blooms
Subject(s): Yucca Plants


YUCCA, by MARIE TODD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yucca, yucca, burning white
Last Line: Holding high your candle's gleam.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Yucca Plants


YUCCA FLOWERS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hills today if you bow
Last Line: Gaps in the air, places like flowers %no one can see.Today you can feel %them still, if you bow in t
Subject(s): Yucca Plants


YUCCA IN THE MOONLIGHT, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flowers of mist and silence
Subject(s): Yucca Plants


YUCCAS, by DONALD BAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: June in new mexico, - a desert land
Last Line: The living splendor of a poet's dream.
Subject(s): New Mexico; Yucca Plants


YUCCAS, by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pale and dim fell the moonlight
Last Line: The yuccas witnessed my sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Yucca Plants; Sorrow; Sadness


YUCCAS ON A JUNE NIGHT, by MARCUS Z. LYTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The parched, blue hush that cloaks a summer night
Last Line: To aim his life on more sidereal slant.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Yucca Plants