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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PLANTS Matches Found: 203 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. 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