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Subject: VIOLETS
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A BELATED VIOLET, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Very dark the autumn sky
Last Line: Violet never woke to know.
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Violets; Childhood


A SEPTEMBER VIOLET, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For days the peaks wore hoods of cloud
Last Line: Did come again, in search of thee?
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


A VIOLET SPEAKS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O passer-by, draw near!
Last Line: To him who flees from death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


AFRICAN VIOLETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: How the wind shrieks!
Last Line: Of far-off africa.
Subject(s): Africa; Flowers; Jungles; Travel; Violets; Journeys; Trips


AGNES, by ELIZA KEARY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's hard, but I don't wonder at mother
Last Line: Only find the good-bye and the violet.
Subject(s): Flowers; Seamstresses; Violets


ALPINE VIOLETS; IMITATED FROM DE BELLAY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You tiny flames of blue
Last Line: I would not pass!
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


AN APRIL VIOLET, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "under the larch, with its tassels wet"
Last Line: Only an april violet
Subject(s): Death;flowers;violets; "dead, The;


ANNUNCIATION, by LOLA RIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But for the violets
Last Line: Desperately butting against the concrete.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Flowers; Violets


AUTUMN VIOLETS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep love for youth, and violets for the spring
Last Line: A grateful ruth tho' gleaning scanty corn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Violets


BAY VIOLETS, by SISTER MARIS STELLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then, like a miracle, the violets came out
Last Line: The children never forget them. They can never forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


BETRAYAL OF VIOLETS, by MOHAMMED IBRAHIM ABU SINNAH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flutter of violets
Last Line: Be the tomb of my love
Subject(s): Flowers; Muslims; Violets


BY FAUGHAN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For hills and woods and streams unsung
Last Line: Between the silence and the wind.
Subject(s): Flowers; Purple (color); Sea; Sheep; Violets; Wind; Ocean


CORYDON TO PHYLLIDA WITH A BUNCH OF AUTUMN VIOLETS, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could all the measure of my love be set
Last Line: And make their message what thou wilt. Farewell.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


DE AEGYPTO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the wet bank shines
Last Line: If I die not in my own land.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Moon; Violets; Dead, The


DEAD VIOLETS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They took them from the woodland glade
Last Line: And she is dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Violets; Dead, The


DISCOVERY, by MAY HARRIS GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down by the moss bank
Last Line: I found the pulse of god.
Subject(s): Flowers; God; Violets


FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 5. VIOLET, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Small fragrant print of april's feet
Last Line: And lay it here among my rhymes.
Subject(s): April; Flowers; Passion; Violets


FOR YELLOW VIOLETS, by GLENNYS RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: How like a very miracle it seems
Last Line: Weep for the sterile power that is I!
Subject(s): Birth; Flowers; Violets; Child Birth; Midwifery


HAIKU, by VIRGINIA BRADY YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Violets
Last Line: The hoof of a deer
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


HEAVY VIOLETS, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavy violets there is no way
Subject(s): Violets


HOW VIOLETS CAME BLUE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love on a day, wise poets tell
Last Line: Her blowes did make ye blew.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Violets


INSIDE THE VIOLET, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the long hedge on my parents' drive
Subject(s): Violets


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 6. SPRING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But haste we! - 'tis that merry time of year
Last Line: Untiring sing their olden songs anew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Flowers; Primroses; Singing & Singers; Spring; Violets; Songs


MY SECRET SIN, by MARGUERITE YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I were a modest violet
Last Line: With being stout ... And sweet.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


NEW SPRING: 33, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning send I violets
Last Line: Tis of this that they're the token!
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


OF VIOLETS, by ANGELO POLIZIANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: O beautiful violets, seeming to give such promise
Last Line: Creature of sighs and weeping, because of my lady
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


ON A FADED VIOLET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The odor from the flower is gone
Last Line: Is such as mine should be.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


ON A VIOLET IN HER BREAST, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See how this violet which before
Last Line: And they to thee lend ornament!
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


ON SOME VIOLETS PLANTED IN MY GARDEN BY A FRIEND, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Catherine, though not from fortune's glittering stores
Last Line: The changing climate and the stormy sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


SEA VIOLET, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white violet
Last Line: Frost, a star edges with its fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Violets


SONG (12), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, when the grave shall open for me
Last Line: The bending and dark blue violet.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Violets; Tombs; Tombstones


SONG: 30, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Violets, sweet violets
Last Line: Many a scented violet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


SONNET, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had no thought of violets of late
Last Line: Of violets, and my soul's forgotten gleam.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore)
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Flowers; Violets


SONNET TO A VIOLET, by SUSAN EVANCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spring's sweet attendant! Modest simple flower
Last Line: These bloom to charm -- that, hid -- neglected dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 5. THE VIOLETS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went not to the dean's unbid
Last Line: The violets lay, two white, one blue.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE FADED VIOLET, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What thought is folded in thy leaves!
Last Line: For this, I fold thee in my song.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE LESSER BEAUTY, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are the first wild violet of the year
Last Line: We would not barter for things more divine!
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets; Wellesley College


THE PURPLE VIOLET, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down by a fairy pool there grew, long years, long years ago
Last Line: And trust their precious color to the hands of god to keep.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Violets


THE VIOLET, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the down line, and close beside the rail
Last Line: Unheeding, thunders on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman
Subject(s): Flowers; Railroads; Violets; Railways; Trains


THE VIOLET, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the dusty road of life
Last Line: And life grow sanctified again.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE VIOLET, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Violets! - deep-blue violets!
Last Line: The bending and deep-blue violet!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE VIOLET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Violet! Sweet violet!
Last Line: Which made thee all that nature meant thee!
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE VIOLET, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The violet in her greenwood bower
Last Line: Remain'd the tear of parting sorrow.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE VIOLET, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O faint, delicious, spring-time violet
Last Line: Thy velvet leaf.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE VIOLET, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in a green and shady bed
Last Line: In sweet humility.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE VIOLET AND THE ROSE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The violet invited my kiss
Last Line: And I wept for the deed I had done!
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE VIOLET FARM, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I might choose my simple lot
Last Line: Tis I would have a violet farm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ambition; Farm Life; Flowers; Violets; Agriculture; Farmers


THE VIOLET SPEAKS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Think not yon star
Last Line: Of years, is mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


THE VIOLET-GIRL, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When fancy will continually rehearse
Last Line: The veil that hides our vilest mortal sore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Flowers; Poverty; Violets


THE YELLOW VIOLET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When beechen buds begin to swell
Last Line: That made the woods of april bright.
Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Violets


TO A FRIEND WHO SENT ME A BOX OF VIOLETS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, more than violets
Last Line: Bless thee, the giver.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Violets


TO A LADY WITH A VIOLET, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though fate upon this faded flower
Last Line: Its soul is with me still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


TO A VIOLET FOUND ON ALL SAINTS' DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Belated wanderer of the ways of spring
Last Line: Life grows, through death, as beautiful as you.
Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Flowers; Violets; Allhallowmas; Allhallows


TO A WOOD-VIOLET, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this secluded shrine
Last Line: Our souls forever one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


TO E. ARUNDELL, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature! Thou mayest fume and fret
Last Line: There's but one white violet.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


TO THE VIOLET, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet violet, who knows
Last Line: Each bank of sundering death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


TO VIOLET (WITH A BUNCH OF NAMESAKES), by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a maid - I am afraid
Last Line: My rhymes are filled with u.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Violets; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations


TO VIOLETS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome mainds of honour!
Last Line: Poore girles! Neglected.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


UNCOVERING SPRING VIOLETS BEFORE THEIR TIME, by BILLY C. CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I raked some winter leaves away
Last Line: Anxiety had been mine
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Leaves; Nature; Violets


UNDER THE VIOLETS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her hands are cold; her face is white
Last Line: Lies withered where the violets blow.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Violets; Graveyards


VILLANELLE OF VIOLETS, by THERESSA M. DEFOSSET    Poem Text                    
First Line: My flower shall be the violet
Last Line: I make my choice with no regret.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


VIOLET, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear little violet
Variant Title(s): Calling The Viole
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


VIOLET AND OAK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Down through the trees is my green walk
Last Line: A little violet in the grass.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Flowers; Trees; Violets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


VIOLET UNDER THE SNOW, by RACHEL CAPEN SCHAUFFLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: To thee I would bring
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Violets


VIOLET: 1. PRELUDE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This was a sweet white wildwood violet
Last Line: The artificial flower of my ideal.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


VIOLET: 2. CHRISTMAS-EVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: April-hearted violet
Last Line: Into flower.
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Love; Violets; Nativity, The


VIOLETS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Violets, violets, sweet march violets
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


VIOLETS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gusty wind o'ersweeps the garden close
Last Line: Beneath the golden shadows of the palm.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


VIOLETS, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We come not, fair one, to thy hand of snow
Last Line: Our dew and air have been, love's balmy tears and sighs!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


VIOLETS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Violets, shy violets!
Last Line: Will wait on mine and gladden me!
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Nature; Violets


VIOLETS, by NAOMI REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If the dawn brings violets
Last Line: In your eyes.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


VIOLETS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A friend brought sweetest violets
Last Line: "for thee his morning star he sets."
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Spring; Violets


VIOLETS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet violets! From your humble beds
Last Line: With all that wealth bestows, or pageant heraldry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


VIOLETS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, lovely, lovely violets
Last Line: They told our fortunes true.
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


VIOLETS FOR MOTHER, by IRMA BIDDLE IMHOFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flowers I bring you grew not under glass
Last Line: It's of your virtues that these flowers sing.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers; Violets


VIOLETS IN SAINT MARK'S SQUARE, by DIEGO VALERI    Poem Source                    
First Line: That face so faintly colored
Last Line: In new-come march
Subject(s): Flowers; March (month); Violets


VIOLETS SENT IN A LITTLE BOX, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let them lie, yes, let them lie
Last Line: Richer scent through dying.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


WABASH VIOLETS, by EARL MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What? Sho'! You don't! Do you mean it, though?
Last Line: My love for them now is sp'iled.
Subject(s): Boston; Flowers; Indiana; Marigolds; Poppies; Violets


WAR IS KIND: 23, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a land where lived no violets
Last Line: "there are no violets here."
Variant Title(s): The Violets
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets; War


WHEN SPRING COMES BACK, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When spring comes back the violets lift
Last Line: Among the garden mazes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Violets


WHICH SHALL I CHOOSE?, by DELLE BLOSS DAVENPORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am looking for a nosegay
Last Line: "we love, not 'glitter,' but modesty."
Subject(s): Flowers; Modesty; Violets


WHITE VIOLETS IN SOUTH HADLEY, by CYNTHIA ZARIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So many of them wicking the lawns
Last Line: Had left the image of its pressure here
Subject(s): Flowers; Violets


WILD VIOLET, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Violet, violet, sparkling with dew
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Violets