NOW the violet blooms again; Blooms the lover of the rain, The jonquil; blooms on every hill the upland-roaming daffodil. And now the favourite flower of Love, Flower of spring, all flowers above, In bloom perfected sweetly blows -- Zenophile, persuasion's rose. Meadows of your tresses fain, You brightly laugh, but laugh in vain; How sweet soe'er your posies be, Far more excellent is she. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1956, A FAIRY TALE by JAMES GALVIN ST. FRANCIS EINSTEIN OF THE DAFFODILS (FIRST VERSION) by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: EPILOGUE by JOHN DRYDEN DISCONTENTS IN DEVON by ROBERT HERRICK TO JOHN KEATS; SONNET by AMY LOWELL WHICH WAS MOST TRULY DEAD? by CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE SCORN NOT THE LEAST by ROBERT SOUTHWELL SONGS OF TRAVEL: 45. TO S.R. CROCKETT by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |