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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FLOWERS Matches Found: 2587 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "'HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT'", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, dear little daisy, come whisper me softly" Last Line: "somebody holds me quite close to his bosom, / and whispers, 'my darling, the daisy has lied.'" Subject(s): Daisies;flowers "OF A ROSE, A LOVELY ROSE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lestenyt, lordynges, both elde and yinge" Last Line: And schyd us fro the fyndes bond Subject(s): Flowers;roses;winter "THE WHITE ROSE, SENT BY A YORKISH GENTLEMAN TO LANCASTRIAN MISTRESS", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If this fair rose offend thy sight / placed in thy bosom fair Last Line: "with envy pale 'twill lose its dye, / and yorkish turn again" Variant Title(s): "the White Rose Sent By A Yorkish Gentleman To His Lancastrian Mistress;the White Rose, Sent By A Yorkish Lover; Subject(s): Admiration;flowers;roses 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War A BALLAD OF DREAMLAND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hid my heart in a nest of roses Last Line: Only the song of a secret bird. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Sleep; Nightmares A BED OF FORGET-ME-NOTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is love so prone to change and rot Last Line: This is forget-me-not and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Passion 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 BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A BOUQUET OF ZINNIAS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One could not live without delicacy, but when Last Line: Bruisable petals curve sweetly over their centers Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening A BOWL OF ROSES, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a bowl of roses Last Line: O, was it you? Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A BUNCH OF ROSES, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses ruddy and roses white Last Line: Bending his head to a bunch of roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Hearts; Life; Roses; Dead, The A BUNCH OF ROSES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rosy mouth and rosy toe Last Line: To kiss and play together. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Roses; Infants A CALIFORNIA SONG, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come to you with a gift in my hand Last Line: The scent of the fields where the poppies grow. Subject(s): California; Flowers; Poppies A CHAPLET OF FLOWERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, set the casement open Last Line: Will call my soul away. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Love; Sin; Soul A CHILD'S BATTLES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise of the knights of old Last Line: Take my love. Subject(s): Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Praise A CITY HOUSEWIFE'S RONDEL, by ELOISE HERRING GORHAM Poem Text First Line: I walk among my garden blooms Last Line: I walk among my garden blooms. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Walking A CLUSTER OF ROSES TO A FRIEND, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses, beautiful roses Last Line: Be the gifts of his matchless love. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Love; Roses A CONCEIT, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Oh, touch that rosebud! It will bloom Last Line: You bid it close. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave flowers, that I could gallant it like you Last Line: Like yours may sweeten and perfume my death. Subject(s): Flowers A COQUETTE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am never in doubt of her goodness Last Line: Whose birthdays are three, when all told. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring A CORSAGE BOUQUET, by CHARLES HENRY LUDERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Myrtilla, tonight Last Line: Wears jacqueminot roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A COTTAGE IN A CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We reached the place by night Last Line: For the cottage by the water. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Flowers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Eve; Seamen; Sails A COUNTRY NOSEGAY, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you been through the long sweet hours Last Line: And I will accept your wilding flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets A COUNTRY SONG; CANZONE, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lad philisides Last Line: More envied phoebus for his western flying. Subject(s): Flowers; Admiration A DAY IN MARCH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look forth, beloved, from thy mansion high Last Line: And die! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Life; March (month); Seasons A DEAD ROSE IN AN OLD BOOK, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O anne in town, at rainy hallowmas Last Line: Grudge I its red or any sweet of june. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A DECEMBER ROSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose is a rose all times of the year Last Line: A rose is a rose all times of the year. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A DIALOGUE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dandelions in the grass Last Line: (when they die) they lived at all! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Flowers A DIRGE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why were you born when the snow was falling? Last Line: For sweet things dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Spring; Dead, The A DISCOURAGING MODEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just the airiest, fairiest slip of a thing Last Line: To expect a result half so fair? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Flowers; Models; Roses A FADING ROSE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the rose that yesterday Last Line: A sob in her throat and her blue eyes wet. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A FANCY FROM FONTENELLE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose in the garden slipped her bud Last Line: For the rose is beauty; the gardener, time. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Variant Title(s): The Rose And The Gardener Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time A FANTASY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fantasy that came to me Last Line: Her mystic fingers knew so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Trees; Vision; Nightmares A FIESOLAN IDYL, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where precipitate spring, with one light bound Last Line: Dropt it, as loth to drop it, on the rest. Variant Title(s): Faesulan Idyl Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Flowers A FLOWER IN A LETTER, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lonely chamber next the sea Last Line: A beauty worthier singing! Subject(s): Flowers A FLOWER OF THE DAY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, that with a pale and pensile grace Last Line: Such wisdom and such sweetness, in god's world. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Flowers A FLOWER OF THE FIELDS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bee-bitten in the orchard hung Last Line: So love and I might look on her. Subject(s): Flowers A FLOWER PAINTED BY SIMON VERELST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When famed verelst this little wonder drew Last Line: Behold one work of mine, that ne'er shall fade. Subject(s): Flowers; Paintings And Painters A FLOWER-PIECE BY FANTIN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought Last Line: Heart's ease. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Roundels A FORETASTE OF SPRING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sweet and golden afternoon Last Line: Night is nigh! Subject(s): Afternoon; Birds; Flowers; Laughter; Spring A FRAGMENT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, rose, my chloe's bosom grace Last Line: You die with envy, I with love. Variant Title(s): Love's Emblem Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses A FRENCH LILY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet iphigenia-soul of every day Last Line: Thee none the less I treasure next my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies A GARDEN, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: My love is red as oleander Last Line: Were meeter for my love to sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Soul A GARDEN OF SPICES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All odors sweet of spice and balm Last Line: That we, dear lord, are thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love A GARDEN; FOR GRETCHEN CARACAS AND HOWARD ROGOVIN, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was my garden in 1985 Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening A GARLAND FOR CHRISTOPHER SMART, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For cosmos, which has too much to live up to Subject(s): Flowers; God; Smart, Christopher (1722-1771) A GARLAND FOR HELIODORA, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll frame, my heliodora! A garland for thy hair Last Line: Queen of them all, the red red rose, the flower which lovers love. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses A GOLD STAR MOTHER SPEAKS, by VIRGINIA ARMISTEAD NELSON Poem Text First Line: My little lad of other days sleeps there Last Line: They'll guard his grave, and bloom about his cross. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Lilies; Sons; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A GOOD-BYE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was only three days ago Last Line: Could not forever last. Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Parting A HINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our daisy lay down Last Line: "why, that's why I kiss you! She said." Subject(s): Babies;daisies;flowers; Infants A JANUARY DANDELION, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All nashville, is a chill. And everywhere Last Line: To all that blooming life that might have been. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds A LAMENT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the twilight, silent smiled Last Line: Since, dear maiden, dead thou art. Subject(s): Daisies; Death; Flowers; Lament; Love; Dead, The A LAST WISH, by CHRISTOPH CHRISTIAN STURM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my heart has ceased for ever beating out / the dirge of time Last Line: For the weary sleeper chooses but the evergreen and cross. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Wishes; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A LAY OF THE EARLY ROSE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose once grew within Last Line: And this yearning to completeness!' Variant Title(s): The Lay Of The Rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A LITTLE BIT OF HOME, by KATHERINE J. BALL PUTNEY Poem Text First Line: When last to home I took some flowers Last Line: We're a little bit of home. Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Solitude; Loneliness A LITTLE SONG, by REXFORD EIDSON Poem Text First Line: Wandering out amain Last Line: Of what we sought. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs A LOST FLOWER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Droop all the flowers in my garden Last Line: My rose that has died to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A MAIDEN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh if I were the velvet rose Last Line: More red than roses blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A MAUDLE-IN-BALLAD; TO HIS LILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my lank limp lily, my long lithe lily" Last Line: "that I bought for a halfpenny, yesterday" Subject(s): Flowers;lilies A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are a tulip seen today Last Line: As he, the maker of this song. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The A MEMORY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came into my life for one brief day Last Line: And dropped a flower there. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; Laughter; Memory; Supernatural A MOSS-ROSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the rose of all flowers be the rarest Last Line: The moss was a bonnet of plush. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Seasons A MOUNTAIN-GIRDED GARDEN AT ASHEVILLE, by LAVINIA R. CLARK Poem Text First Line: I love the tiers of wooded mountains Last Line: Against a gray sky. Subject(s): Flowers A NEREID (2), by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the glaucous waves that kiss gold tauris' beaches Last Line: From her soft hair she wrung the foam in garlands drifting. Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Love; Roses; Dead, The; Paradise A NIGHTPIECE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Endymion sleeps along the distant hills Last Line: That sweet strange wondrous consciousness of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Sleep A NOSEGAY, by JOHN REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Say, crimson rose and dainty daffodil Last Line: Like stars divine? Variant Title(s): The Garden's Queen Subject(s): Flowers A NOSEGAY FOR LAURA, JULY 1745, by FRANCIS FAWKES Poem Text First Line: Come, ye fair, ambrosial flowers Last Line: Sweetly dying on her breast. Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers A NOVEMBER LANDSACPE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How like a rich and gorgeous picture hung Last Line: With all its kindling lamps the distant city rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; November; Providence, Rhode Island A PASSING HAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us rest ourselves a bit! Last Line: It farewell a little while. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Kisses; Nature A PASTORAL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Flower of the medlar Last Line: To wake our wedding-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Marriage; Nymphs; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A PAUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They made the chamber sweet with flowers and leaves Last Line: Put on a glory, and my soul expand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fidelity; Flowers; Love; Soul; Faithfulness; Constancy A PRESENTATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Here's a clove carnation, dear Last Line: Of my heart's consuming flame! Subject(s): Carnations; Desire; Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile. Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes A REMINISCENCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose to the wind has yielded: all its leaves Last Line: O sorrow, and commune with thine heart: who knows? Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Roses; Soul A REMINISCENCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the wild honey-bee kissing a rose Last Line: That a bee could have carried me so far away? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Memory; Roses; Sun A ROSE, by ARLO BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a jacqueminot rose Last Line: "went a kiss that I'm wearing." Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses A ROSE, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day with bright, appealing face Last Line: His soul and breaks his fetter? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Roses; Soul A ROSE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Thy purfled petals are like angels' lips Last Line: And thou a pledge whence all perfections are. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses A ROSE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: I send to thee this fair and fragrant rose Last Line: And seek the sunbeam through the wintry snows. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Spring A ROSE, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blown in the morning, thou shalt fade ere noon Last Line: Anticipating life, to hasten death! Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A ROSE, by HELEN RAMSEY Poem Text First Line: A flake of dawn's new splendor Last Line: You voiceless living melody! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Gifts & Giving; Love; Roses; Inspiration; Creativity A ROSE FROM MOTHER'S GARDEN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose that was the last to fade was one his / mother brought Last Line: Her mother-love, as sweet, as brave, will blossom on and on. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A ROSE IN OCTOBER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strayed, all alone, where the Last Line: She'd bloom for me aye, as -- my wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Marriage; October; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A ROSE PLANT IN JERICHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At morn I plucked a rose and gave it thee Last Line: Yea, give thy very self to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Jericho; Roses A ROSE WILL FADE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were always a dreamer, rose - red rose Last Line: A rose will fade in a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time 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 SHROPSHIRE LAD: 29. THE LENT LILY, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis spring; come out to ramble Last Line: That dies on easter day. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Spring; The Resurrection A SIGH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was nothing but a rose I gave her Last Line: Cannot make it old Subject(s): Death;flowers;roses; "dead, The; A SIMPLE PURCHASE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buying flowers Last Line: From take heart, random house. Subject(s): Evil; Flowers; God A SLEEPING-PLACE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When into the rose Last Line: For lids in maiden slumber wed? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Roses A SONG, by CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND Poem Text First Line: Oh, red is the english rose Last Line: Will grow for a love that never and never can fail. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; World War I - Casualties A SONG FOR ROSETIME, by SNOW LONGLEY HOUGH Poem Text First Line: Rosetime, rosetime, rosetime in gardens Last Line: Roses bloom eternally, death's hand is stayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow Longley Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring A SONG FOR WINTER, by F. H. MCMAHON Poem Text First Line: Love is red as the rose Last Line: Message of red and white. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter A SONG IN JUNE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a rosebush that grows in the garden you Last Line: And it would not be june if it were not for you. Subject(s): Flowers; June; New York City - Dutch Period; Orioles; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A SONG OF THE LILAC, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the wall that's broken Last Line: Is shaken on his heart. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Love A SONG OF THE ROSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose! What dost thou here? Last Line: Darkening thine earthly bowers, o bridal, royal rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A SONG TO A FAIR YOUNG LADY GOING OUT OF TOWN IN THE SPRING, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask not the cause, why sullen spring Last Line: To be the victim for mankind. Variant Title(s): To A Fair Young Lady Subject(s): Flora (goddess); Flowers; Love; Spring; Women; Chloris (goddess) A SONNET TO LOVE'S TRANSIENT ROSES, by ARDIS M. WALKER Poem Text First Line: Night - long I lay amid love's fragrant roses Last Line: Return to haunt my reveries at night? Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses A SONNET. THE ROSE AND LILY, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Courted by cupids, and the amorous air Last Line: And rose and lily do in empire join. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses A SWEET NOSEGAY: GOOD FORTUNE, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good fortune me brought Last Line: If yet your selfe be sound. Subject(s): Flowers A SWEETNESS, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sweetness, then a softness Last Line: Chrysanthemum, on mine. Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers A TALE OF THE BOGLAND, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis myself that hates the city, and the hurry, and / the din Last Line: For he is on the bogland yet, an' I am far apart. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise A THOUGHT (2), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer rose the sun has flushed Last Line: Until the cross became its vase. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A THOUGHT OF THE ROSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much of memory dwells amidst thy bloom Last Line: Yet may we meet thee, joy's own flower, again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A TULIP BLOSSOMED, ONE MORNING IN MAY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Their sweetness over the ocean Subject(s): Flowers 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 A VISION OF SPRING IN WINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tender time that love thinks long to see Last Line: Give back, and half my april back to me. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Vision; Winter A WALK IN THE SHRUBBERY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The florists, who have fondly watch'd Last Line: Are still replaced by a succession. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Flowers; Roses A WAYWARD ROSE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mischievous rose from the rose-tree swaying Last Line: Rose from the rose-tree swaying. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A WHITE ROSE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red rose whispers of passion Last Line: Has a kiss of desire on the lips. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Roses A WINTER NOSEGAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wither'd winter blossoms Last Line: Hence! -- from my shelf! Subject(s): Flowers; Winter A WITHERED NOSEGAY, by LOUIS FRECHETTE Poem Text First Line: Here's a posy of poor faded flowers, that I keep Last Line: Shall touch you caressingly even in death. Subject(s): Flowers; Lament; Past; Time A WOMAN'S WISH, by ELLA MASON Poem Text First Line: I wish I might be like the rose Last Line: Leaving a fragrant memory . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Roses A WRAITH OF SUMMER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In its color, shade and shine Last Line: And the rocking lily never even rustles as it rings! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Roses; Summer A YEAR AFTERWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things are so changed since last we met Last Line: And the same stars and silent sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise A YEAR'S CAROLS: APRIL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned april, king whose kiss bade earth Last Line: Praise him, the flower of all thy flowers. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Seasons ABANDONED HOTHOUSE, by JIRINA FUCHSOVA Poem Source First Line: Rows of roses Last Line: Death tired %hands Subject(s): Flowers; Houses, Deserted; Roses ABOUT INFINITY; AFTER H.H., THE 17TH KARMAPA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are stonebreakers in straw hats Last Line: Running in a running stream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; Dead, The; Nightmares ABUNDANCE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I had 1000 roses Subject(s): Flowers; Disappointment ACTAEON'S MOVE WAS UNINTENTIONAL UNLIKE MINE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Orders come from the forms of the contents of things Subject(s): Flowers; Paintings And Painters; Roses AD ASTRA: 108, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O little lives, brought thro' the starry gloom Last Line: From joyless life, drawn from degenerate veins? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise AD ASTRA: 39, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O thou, who somewhere braidest billowy gold Last Line: That never knew how graciously she stood! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love AD ASTRA: 51, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Blooms there for me a white and petal'd flower Last Line: I dare not go beyond their mute control. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Love AD INFINITUM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still I bring flowers Last Line: To speak a lesser thing. Subject(s): Flowers AD ROASAM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a vacant dwelling Last Line: Particulars within.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Flowers; Roses AD TE DOMINE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who sendest dewdrops to the garden Last Line: Too fatal sweet a dew for human flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Dew; Flowers ADMONITION, by FAITH HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: We cannot share the rose without its thorns Last Line: The stinging wounds that fill us with regret. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses ADVENTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: I loved my garden; in its cloistered plot Last Line: Nor turn dismayed from unknown fate. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses; Sea Voyages; Destiny ADVICE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must do as you do? Your way I own Last Line: But I trust we shall meet -- in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Advice; Flowers; Friendship; Life; Roses 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 AFFINITY FOR BEES, by VIRGINIA MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Lark liked to be barefoot in the garden Last Line: To be intimate with roses Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Roses 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 AFTER GREAT DROUGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The rain gropes with delicate pushing fingers Last Line: The world's as sweet as a rose: a rain-wet rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Drought; Flowers; God; Hope; Rain; Roses; Optimism AFTER THE FROST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the frost! O the rose is dead Last Line: After the frost -- the frost! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Frost; Gardens & Gardening; Kisses; Roses AFTERMATH, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: Withered petals in the gloom Last Line: Is the aftermath. Subject(s): Flowers; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances AFTERMATH, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The herald redbreast sings his winter lays Last Line: Flaunts the imperial chrysanthemum. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses 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 AIR FOR VIOLA DA GAMBA, by JOSEPH WALSH Poem Text First Line: Do you remember now how rain Last Line: (how does that old sonata go?) Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs ALBERTINE ASKS FOR A POEM, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dig good graves. No other spade Last Line: Graves I may dig, but not this one. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ALESSIO AND THE ZINNIAS, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One summer -- was he eight Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening ALESSIO AND THE ZINNIAS, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer -- was he eight Last Line: Never wear orange or pink Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening ALL FOR ME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world grows green on a thousand hills Last Line: You and your court came north together. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Summer; Wind ALL IN JUNE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A week ago I had a fire Last Line: To wriggle out of hollow flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Flowers; June; Summer ALL NIGHT BY THE ROSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "all night by the rose, rose" Last Line: "dared I not the rose to steal, / and yet I bore the flower away" Subject(s): Flowers;love;roses ALL OF ROSES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the isar, in the twilight Last Line: "here in this simmering marsh." Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): River Roses Subject(s): Fear; Flowers; Roses ALL SOULS DAY, by FERDINAND VON SAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild and wan, and chill Last Line: Anticipates his own. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Soul; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ALL THE PRETTY FLOWERS, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I think-my hands were not born for this/ Last Line: Slowly suffocating in plastic wrap/limp in new hands Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love ALLEGRO, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: How she strode by Last Line: In the fields. ... Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a myrtle shade Last Line: Asleep or waking you must ease my pain. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 3 Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nymphs; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs 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 AMARYLLIS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She sleeps; - amaryllis %modst flowerets is laid Last Line: Where roses and lilies %make the sweet shade Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Sleep AMARYLLIS: PRIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When amarillis fair doth show Last Line: She blossoms, blossoms,-she fades,-she dies,-%they who admired, now despise Subject(s): Flowers AMBITIOUS RAINS OF MOIST SEPTEMBER, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source Last Line: The flowered illusion %pano-ramas Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Desire; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Singing And Singers AMERICA'S FLOWER SONG, by MARGARET PAXSON FLACK Poem Text First Line: Wild wayside flowers are we Last Line: Our country thee. Subject(s): Flowers; National Song - United States; American National Anthem AMID THE ROSES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was laughter amid the roses Last Line: The lonely blossoms weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Roses AMONG THE ROSES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stat rosa pristina nomine Last Line: Arid empty dry as dust Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) AMONGST THE ROSES, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked through a forest, beneath the hot noon Last Line: In a dance and a dazzle of roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses AMORETTI: 26, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the rose but grows upon a brere Last Line: That endlesse pleasure shall unto me gaine? Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): Sweet And Sour Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Plpeasure AN ANSWER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If one should bring a rose that had been fair Last Line: Square in your face I throw your offering. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Fire; Flowers; Hearts AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 2. TIDING, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the tides of april Last Line: And white, and fair. Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Spring; Tides; Ocean AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 3., by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That skylark curving toward the south Last Line: Cradles flowers in their sleep. Subject(s): April; Flowers AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 4. APRIL FLAME, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the foaming air Last Line: White wisdom now! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Spring AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 5., by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why grieve to see the light in air Last Line: Arise, and shout with may! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring 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; AN ARROW-SLIT, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I clomb full high the belfry tower Last Line: And carry her, carry her on my breast.' Subject(s): Climbing; Faith; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Belief; Creed AN AUTUMNAL EXTRAVAGANZA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a sweeter voice than birds Last Line: On its highest minaret. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Music & Musicians; Roses; Seasons; Fall AN EASTER FLOWER GIFT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest bloom the seasons know Last Line: The heart of christ and ours! Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; The Resurrection AN EASTER LILIY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain to seal the sepulchre Last Line: Within the garden stands. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Pilate, Pontius; The Resurrection AN INDIAN LOVE SONG (WRITTEN TO AN INDIAN TUNE), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy Last Line: Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Roses AN INTRODUCTION TO MY ANTHOLOGY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a book must contain Last Line: But only as a peacock among barn fowl. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Love; Poetry & Poets; Reading AN ITALIAN BEGGAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, little girl, the road beside Last Line: For this land of lands and this day of days! Subject(s): Beauty; Begging & Beggars; Flowers; Hearts; Italy; Roses; Italians AN OFFERING, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Velvet cowslips, tawny hue Last Line: For you, these glowing flowers, my friend. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring AN OLD OLD STORY, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Pierre was lonely Last Line: And the moon came up: a great white lily. Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Soldiers; Solitude; World War I; Parting; Loneliness; First World War AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to wander at will in a garden Last Line: Are not in favor to-day! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN, by DORA CLAIRE VANNIX Poem Text First Line: A nosegay of old-fashioned flowers came today Last Line: That in old-fashioned gardens, as elsewhere, my dwell. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Memory AN OLD-WORLD CONVENT GARDEN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walled quiet from the din Last Line: To come -- and go! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening AN OPEN ROSE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we say that the rose is open? It opens as the Last Line: Water, far inside the rose's petals. Where you go, I go.... Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Roses; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN ORCHID, by ROUTLEDGE CURRY Poem Text First Line: The old mahogany fireplace Last Line: To a point. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Orchids; Spring AN UNFORTUNATE PHRASE, by F. S. (AMERICAN) Poem Text First Line: He sent her twelve jacqueminot roses Last Line: For he called on her never again. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses AND IN THE CENTER RING ..., by BURTON RAFFEL Poem Source First Line: Flowers, once they've done their turn Last Line: Bursting, fill both earth and air Subject(s): Flowers; Nature AND THIS IS CERTAIN; IF SO BE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O lawk! O criky! It's a dream!' Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND MINERAL, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On gypsum slabs of preternatural whiteness Last Line: Impatiens roylei walpers acts the same Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Bees; Pollination; Cambridge, Massachusetts ANNIE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not for earthly bread, annie Last Line: To dwell in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Life; Love; Roses; Paradise ANNUALS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: In the blaze of the backyard Last Line: Yes, this is how it can be Subject(s): Art And Artists; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Mothers; Museums 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 ANOTHER FOR THE BRIAR ROSE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O treacherous scent, o thorny sight Last Line: Thine eyes were light; thy lips were life. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ANOTHER LINEAGE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Eros, blind father, let me show you the way Last Line: Of another breed sublimely insane! Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roses ANOTHER SONG WITHOUT WORDS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too red, too red the roses were Last Line: And of all things but you . . . But you. . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Roses; Singing & Singers APART, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: A piece of cliff that broke away Last Line: What power disposed, and understands? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Nightmares APOLOGIA VITAE, by MILICENT LAUBENHEIMER Poem Text First Line: Breathe not again, sweet breath, lest her delicate heart Last Line: Of thorns, that was my rightful heritage. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Pain; Roses; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once saw I many a blooming flower Last Line: To steep in lethe's blissful night. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones APPLE BLOSSOMS, by IVAN ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms! / sweetly blowing all around Last Line: Flickering with their elfish whims. Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring APRIL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: To normal seeing, a cloud that is also known Last Line: If time is one answer, if space has a will of its own Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring APRIL, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful april! Sweet month of the spring! Last Line: First a smile, then a frown, and next a tear. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring ARABIAN NIGHTS: DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "once he will miss, twice he will miss" Last Line: But all's one level plain he hunts for flowers Subject(s): Death;flowers; "dead, The; ARCADIA: THE BARGAIN, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My true love hath my heart and I have his Last Line: My true love hath my heart, and I have his. Variant Title(s): "song;phlox - Agreement;heart Exchange;ditty;friendship;arcadian Dialogue;sonnet;true Love;""my True Love Hath My Hart, And I Have His""; Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love ARRANGEMENT, by JEFFREY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The flowers that thrive on the margins Last Line: To place them on your grave Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals AS IF SOME LITTLE ARCTIC FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Only, your inference therefrom! Subject(s): Flowers ASCENSION LILIES, by HELEN WALL STALLWORTH Poem Text First Line: The hours that come between the colored drift Last Line: To glorify their lord on easter morn. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Flowers; Lilies ASHES OF ROSES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, in whose eyes I looked to-day Last Line: Shall we complain, such gems who bear? Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses ASKING FOR ROSES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master Last Line: And grants us by silence the boon of her roses. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets; Roses ASPHODEL, THAT GREENY FLOWER, SELECTION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of asphodel, that greeny flower Subject(s): Flowers; Love ASTER / HAS FLOWERED, ITS, by YOSANO AKIKO Poem Source Subject(s): Asters; Flowers ASTROPHEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A star in the silence that follows Last Line: A star by a star. Subject(s): England; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roundels; Stars; English AT A POET'S GRAVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave down this pipe my friend Last Line: And summer-bells are rung. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones AT CROWN HILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave him here in the fresh greening grasses and trees Last Line: It is midnight to us -- it is morning to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Love; Tears; Trees; Dead, The AT DAWN- A TANKA, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: Petaled silver clouds Last Line: Whereon divinity broods. Subject(s): Flowers AT SUMMER'S END, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: Foxglove pack up Last Line: For rescues that cannot be Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago, in the sweet roman spring Last Line: Whose perfume lives to-day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE WINDOW BETTER TO MOVE ABOUT IT'S LESS DISQUIETING, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Everything's in the room Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ATTAR OF ROSES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wafture of a thousand flowers is here Last Line: The unextinguished flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ATTAR OF ROSES, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Like the petals of the rose Last Line: Till thy lips again I find. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses ATTAR OF VIOLET & LONELINESS, by RICHARD LYONS Poem Source First Line: Things are growing, but not collective yet Last Line: This grievous joy, away from us who give it away %with every little whispering mouth Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Solitude AUBADE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: When fair hyperion dons his night attire Last Line: As storms in june or blossom-boughs in may. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Spring AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices. Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities AUGUST, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should this negro insolently stride Last Line: Scarce warms the surface of the deepest pool? Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): African Americans; Flowers; Pain; Negroes; American Blacks; Suffering; Misery AUREOLA, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER Poem Text First Line: Your spirit goes in pearl and rose Last Line: That's when I love your spirit best. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Roses AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: IN THE FERN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feathery fern-trees make a screen Last Line: Of lime-tree in an english june. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Flowers; Trees AUTUMN CLEAN-UP, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she is in her garden Last Line: Eager to begin Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening AUTUMN CLEAN-UP, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she is in her garden Last Line: Grinding its little teeth %eager to begin Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening AUTUMN FLOWERS, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those few pale autumn flowers Last Line: Tell me of change and death! Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne Subject(s): Flowers AUTUMN FLOWERS, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still blooming on, when summer flowers all fade Last Line: And to its close life's pilgrimage beguile. Subject(s): Flowers AUTUMN GARDEN, by DINO CAMPANA Poem Source First Line: To the spectral garden to the silent laurel Last Line: She appears to me, here and present Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening AUTUMN ROSES, by MARGARET STANLEY-WRENCH Poem Text First Line: Now when the year dips swiftly towards winter Last Line: Before the even greyness of the night. Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Fall 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 AUX IMAGISTES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I have never been so exalted Last Line: Shall not endure for ever. Subject(s): Flowers AXIOMATIC OF THE FLOWERED HATS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: For an uneven number of busses Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses AZALEAS, by KIM SO-WOL Poem Source First Line: If you go away Last Line: No tears will I weep though I perish Subject(s): Azaleas; Flowers AZALEAS, by MUDA Poem Source First Line: It seems to me that I can almost taste Subject(s): Azaleas; Flowers AZALEAS IN EPIPHANY, by DAVID MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Delicate hot-pink bloom Last Line: Blazing into creation, %the word's embodiment Subject(s): Azaleas; Flowers; Religion AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Which flower Last Line: In the place where both sides are Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With ropes of flowers Last Line: You breathe it here I first one Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black flowers wrinkled with gold Last Line: With many flowers torn from man Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place Last Line: In the middle of the flowers Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers have come Last Line: Touch them Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers of red and blue Last Line: For a little while I can see the earth Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just like the flowers I will go Last Line: To the last flower the last song Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers; Singing And Singers AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who who give life Last Line: Sigh through flowers Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In vain friends Last Line: We have to leave beautiful %flowers! Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh nothing will cut down the flower of war Last Line: Dust rises over the bells Subject(s): Aztecs; Flowers; War BABE HERRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a rosebud might, in dreams Last Line: Of thy mother slumberest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Nightmares BABETTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the dusk of the night is sweet, babette" Last Line: With a rose in your dusky hair! Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;love;night;roses; Nightmares;bedtime BABYHOOD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby shines as bright Last Line: Rose Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Roundels; Infants BAGATELLES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The wanton bee that suck'd the rose Last Line: Beyond the dying day. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Love; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs BALD HEAD WITH THE FRINGE, by JANE BEESON Poem Source Last Line: Domed candles under a cathedral sky Subject(s): Clocks; Dandelions; Flowers; Riddles; Time; Weeds BALLAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft white lamb in the daisy meadow Last Line: In the nest of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses BALLAD: TIME OF ROSES, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not in the winter / our loving lot was cast! Last Line: We pluck'd them as we pass'd! Variant Title(s): It Was The Time Of Roses Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Love; Roses BALLADE OF JUNE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs glow, and jasmines climb Last Line: With sir love among the roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Flowers; June; Love; Roses BALLADE OF THE DREAMLAND ROSE, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the waves of burning cloud are rolled Last Line: A petal falls from the dreamland rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Yale University BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: KING CLAUDIUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cypress, geraniums, bleak hedge of my parterre, from the chase I Last Line: Madame, you need not fear. I shall have drunk the wine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dramatists; Flowers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Travel; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips BARGAIN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose will cost you more Last Line: This. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion BAVARIAN GENTIAN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You picked a gentian Last Line: Love - a mark & a memory Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians BAVARIAN GENTIANS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not every man has gentians in his house Last Line: Among the splendour of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Autumn; Consolation; Flowers; Gentians; Seasons; Fall; Fringed Gentians BAVARIAN GENTIANS (1932 MS. 'A'), by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not every man has gentians in his house Last Line: At the marriage of the living dark Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers; Gentians 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 BE HOPEFUL: 2. THE ROSE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blushing and glowing, the rose in full bloom Last Line: The rose and the gem smile up to the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Flowers; Hope; Roses; Optimism BEACON LIGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister blossoms, ye have kept Last Line: His beacon in the darkness shone. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ BEAN-BLOSSOMS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where grass grows short and the meadows end Last Line: May be sweet and lovely and good as well Subject(s): Flowers BEAUTY IS CHANGE, by MAY LEWIS Poem Text First Line: All joy is not encased in the green bud Last Line: Nor warmth in snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Flowers; Roses; Seasons BEE BALM, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'm sticking a shovel in the ground Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening BEE BALM, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'm sticking a shovel in the ground Last Line: So I can live by secrecy and sorrow Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening BEECHNUT, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: O the great and happy beech Last Line: Tiny things to patter down %from a forest tree! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons BEES, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: I had to do it. %they charged and stung the carpenter Last Line: Conceals and covers us and our congenial sleep Subject(s): Bees; Death; Flowers; Insects; Murder BEFORE SUNSET (1), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the lower lands of day Last Line: Lord as time was over death. Subject(s): Evening; Flowers; Love; Sunset; Twilight BEFORE THE MIRROR (VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White rose in red rose-garden Last Line: The flowing of all men's tears beneath the sky. Variant Title(s): Before The Mirror Subject(s): Art & Artists; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Portraits; Roses; Whistler, James Abbott (1834-1903) BEFORE THIS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Before the minutes Last Line: The small door of their lives Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Sunflowers; Trees BEGINNING TO GROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A fairy wakes and starts to sing Last Line: "I guess I'll have to grow!" Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Plantation Life; Seeds; Spring BEREFT, by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN Poem Text First Line: Love left today Last Line: For my dreaming hours. Subject(s): Flowers; Love BESIDE A CHRYSANTHEMUM, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: To bring one chrysanthemum Last Line: And I could not sleep Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Insomnia BESIDE FLOWERS, by MARIE SERCOMBE Poem Text First Line: Delphiniums make me dream of realms afar Last Line: And make life brighter for my belov'd. Subject(s): Flowers BESIDE THE CHRYSANTHEMUM, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: For a chrysanthemum to bloom Last Line: I had to spend sleepless hours Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers BESTOWAL, by JEAN CROSSE HANSEN Poem Text First Line: A friend sent me roses Last Line: For my old blue bowl. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses 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 BEWILDERED, by ETHEL KNIGHT FISHER Poem Text First Line: The blossom sere hangs on the tree Last Line: And take the half-blown rose? Subject(s): Flowers; Night; Noon; Trees; Bedtime BEYOND, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Source First Line: I wonder if the tides of spring Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs BEYOND THE SUNSET, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Beside the cripple's casement Last Line: Beyond the sunset veil. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones BILLY'S ROSE, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Billy's dead and gone to glory - so is billy's sister nell Last Line: "and that nelly kissed her brother, saying, ""billy, here's your rose""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet Subject(s): Flowers; Roses BIRD MUST SING TO EARN THE CRUMB, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But once a century, the rose %superfluous becomes Variant Title(s): Poem: 880; Poem: 92 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Here I dance in a dress like flames Last Line: But children may call me what they choose Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons BIRDS OF PARADISE, by LINDA CASEBEER Poem Source First Line: After a month of whistling Last Line: It happened in the town of paradise Subject(s): Flowers BIRTH OF A ROSE, by MARTITIA M. MOORE Poem Text First Line: O mystic earth! So dead, so cold, a tomb Last Line: Our heartaches, by him, soften in repose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses BITTER FOR SWEET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is gone with all its roses Last Line: And the last buds cease blowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons; Winter; Fall BLACKBERRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: My berries cluster black and thick Last Line: But when the bramble-jelly's made, %you'll find your trouble well repaid Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons BLACKTHORN, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: The wind is cold, the spring seems long Last Line: The leafless branches of the blackthorn, %spangled %with starry blossoms white! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons BLOOM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When flowers thrust their heads above the ground Last Line: That hold a star? Subject(s): Flowers; Rain BLOOM IS RESULT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bloom is result. To meet a flower Last Line: To be a flower is profound %responsibility! Variant Title(s): Poem: 1058; Poem: 103 Subject(s): Flowers BLUE FLOWERS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn, light's the world's list Subject(s): Flowers BLUE FLOWERS, by DENNIS SAMPSON Poem Source First Line: I have gone back to the long cathedral flowers Last Line: Pleased by blue flowers in the dark Subject(s): Flowers BLUE HARVEST, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a black-frost night, after the bitter Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians BLUE MORNING GLORIES, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The oak trees lean their elbows on Last Line: For all we might have done, %for me, for you- %something simple, like sun %on blue Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories BLUE MORNING GLORY, by ANNE PITKIN Poem Source First Line: Voracious, yes. But when you see it Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories BLUE ROSES, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Shepherd in delicate dresden china Last Line: Wait for ever her azure flowers? Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Roses BLUE SWAMP LILIES, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Lone hermits that the world has seldom seen Last Line: Blue lilies nodding to you joyously. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies BLUE THICK PETAL THAT YOU ARE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Question I can't repress you guide my hand towards the button for the ejector seat why Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses BLUEBELL: CONSTANCY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A filbert hedgr with wild briar overtwined Last Line: From their fresh beds, and scattered thoughtlessly %by infant hands, left on the path to die Subject(s): Flowers BLUEFLAGS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stopped the car Last Line: From wet, gummy stalks. Subject(s): Flowers BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tops of the higher peaks Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains BLUES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tops of the higher peaks Last Line: This flower to its hidden senses Subject(s): Blue (color); Flowers; Sierra Nevada Mountains BOOKS AND FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Let me make a sunny realm around thee Last Line: Look on an empire -- mind and nature -- ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Reading BOOKS IN THE RUNNING BROOKS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is enough, enough, one said Last Line: To the purple west. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Nature; Reading BOTANY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly know one flower that grows Last Line: And said, forget-me-not. Variant Title(s): Ignorance Of Botany Subject(s): Flowers BOUNTY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A child and a rose Last Line: Child, rose and white soul of his mother! Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Friendship; Mothers; Roses; Childhood BOUQUET OF ZINNIAS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One could not live without delicacy, but when Last Line: Welcome dutch irises whose transcendent blue, %bruisable petals curve sweetly over their center Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening BOUQUET WITH FLYING LOVERS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Even doused in bouquets, they are buoyant, out-dazzled Last Line: Squabbles of color only they can imagine Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Hearts; Lilies; Love BOUTONNIERE, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: The man may be wilted inside his shirt, the flower not Subject(s): Flowers BOWL OF ROSES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You saw angry ones flare, saw two boys Last Line: Now it lies free of cares in the open roses Subject(s): Flowers; Roses BOX TREE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Have you seen the box unclipped Last Line: And among its leaves there play %little blue-tits, brisk and gay Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons BREATHINGS OF SPRING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wak'st thou, spring? Sweet voices in the woods Last Line: Yes, gentle spring! No sorrow dims thine air, breathed by our loved ones there! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Women BRIDAL BLOSSOMS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing by the bridegroom's side Last Line: All that taints thy purity. Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Virginity; Vestals BRIDAL FLOWERS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bind the white orange-flowers in her hair Last Line: The bride and morning bathe their wreath with tears Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Omens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRIDGE: 2. POWHATAN'S DAUGHTER: INDIANA, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning glory, climbing the morning long Last Line: Stranger, %son, %my friend Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Flowers; Indiana; Morning Glories BRIGHT FLOWERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love not so sorely the bright flowers Last Line: Wenches for summer festival. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature BRING FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring flowers to strew in the conqueror's path! Last Line: They break forth in glory. Bring flowers, bright flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Youth; Nightmares BRINGING FLOWERS WITH IT, by KUNAIKYO Poem Source Last Line: Left flowers in its wake Subject(s): Flowers BRITISH RURAL COTTAGES IN 1842, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scentless rose, train'd by the poor Last Line: Where is the aged pauper's rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Flowers; Great Britain; Poverty; Roses BROKEN FLOWER, by JEFFERY BEAM Poem Source First Line: That a broken flower Last Line: Has no stem only %confirms it Subject(s): Flowers; Metaphor BROOK, by RAFAEL MARIA DE MENDIVE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Laugh of the mountain! Lyre of bird and Last Line: Dwell in limpid fount! Subject(s): Brooks; Flowers; Nature; Roses; Spring BROWNING'S GARDEN AT CAMBERWELL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May makes her own blithe beauty, nor doth need Last Line: And may in camberwell recalls, and smiles. Variant Title(s): The Camberwell Garden Subject(s): Flowers; May (month); Sleep BURIALS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: A few townspeople, the police on their evening rounds Last Line: And did not tempt him %with any desire to return Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Memory; Poppies BURIED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepest where the lilies fade Last Line: The snow upon thy bosom. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Soul; Dead, The BURST OUT THE LAST DAY LIKE DEATH, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Burst out and drink no more %the roses Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses BUTTERCUP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A little yellow buttercup Subject(s): Buttercups; Flowers BUTTERCUPS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Buttercups; Flowers BUTTERCUPS, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY Poem Source First Line: There must be fairy miners Last Line: The world from growing old Subject(s): Buttercups; Flowers BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never see a young hand hold Last Line: With buttercups and daisies. Subject(s): Buttercups; Daisies; Flowers; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones BUTTONS, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Hold fast, golden buttons Last Line: In a lunatic path of laughter and singing. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds 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 BY HER WHITE BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By her white bed I muse a little Last Line: "would mutely plead: ""nay, lord! Let him so sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beds; Flowers; Love; Night; Roses; Bedtime BY TALKING TO THEM WERE YOU ABLE TO DISPERSE THEM, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: With your belt wait a minute hold still Subject(s): Flowers; Language; Poetry And Poets; Roses BY THE WATER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are rivers lapsing down Last Line: And ah, where is my friend? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): River Thames Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Lilies; Thames (river) CACTUS FLOWER, by LAURA STILL Poem Source First Line: The cactus blooms %not according to season Last Line: Is reason enough %to fade Subject(s): Cactus; Deserts; Flowers; Food And Eating CALIFORNIA POPPY FIELDS, by EMMET PENDLETON Poem Text First Line: The poppy fields are mine today Last Line: I feel a king, the world, my throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Happiness; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Joy; Delight CAMELLIA: PERFECTED LOVELINESS, by GIUSEPPE FORTUNINO FRANCESCO VERDI Poem Source First Line: If that is true, then leave me Last Line: I'm happy - %oh, so happy Subject(s): Flowers CANCION OF SPRING, by PABLO PIFERRER Y FABREGAS Poem Source First Line: Here the springtime come again Last Line: Lost are mine - and hope is o'er! Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Love; Seasons; Spring CANTILENA AND CRY OF ADIEU ON THE HILL OF THE MANOR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A last song? Flushing all the sky dawn like a rose-bud doth un Last Line: "the foremost poet of france if only I could find the time." Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Spring; Parting CAPTIVE FLOWER, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning's morning-glory Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories CAPTIVE FLOWER, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning's morning-glory Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories CARAVAN SONG, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Tears for the jasmines, - tears to slake the roses Last Line: Lo, how my task of tears is never done! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Suffering; Misery CARDINAL FLOWER, by JEFFREY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: After an afternoon Last Line: To focus the whole scene Subject(s): Afternoon; Flowers CARESS, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: The soundless dusk was growing dim Last Line: And I felt the sensation of a kiss Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Roses CARNATION, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perdita. Sir, the year growing ancient Last Line: Are our carnation and streak'd gillyvors %which some call nature's bastards Subject(s): Flowers CAROL FOR MAY-DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of fresh flowers Last Line: Thou merry month of may! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; May (month); Spring CARPE DIEM, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a time for all things, sweet! Last Line: And mourn lost blisses. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Roses; Worship; Cathedrals; Dead, The CARRYING FLOWERS IN A DOWNWARD POSITION, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source Last Line: Like a rose %drifting into a lily's ear Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Television CASIDA OF THE ROSE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The rose Last Line: It was searching for something else Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses CASIDA OF THE ROSE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The rose %was not looking for dawn: Last Line: Motionless, in the sky Subject(s): Flowers CAT BURGLAR, by JEAN V. GIER Poem Source First Line: Beyond a Last Line: Forgive me %it's spring Subject(s): Flowers; Spring CEASE, FOOLISH ROSEBUD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, foolish rosebud, cease unfolding Last Line: By thy yet lovelier self to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Roses; Youth CENTURY FLOWER, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: Hayden, your 'collected shorter poems' Last Line: Sad though they may be, %festivities for the human flower also Subject(s): Flowers CHAMPAK BLOSSOMS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amber petals, ivory petals Last Line: To ravish the winds of spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Spring CHANGE, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Enjoy the sweets of life's luxuriant may Last Line: Constant in this, will change all else %below! Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Spring CHARADE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What a glorious city! -- behold Last Line: But the warfare is over: there's peace in my third! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Dead, The; Destiny CHARADE: 17, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enter my first with a studied grace Last Line: Not quite rightly spelt, but comparison rare. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds CHEEK OF JUNE, by ELIZABETH MORROW Poem Text First Line: Roses are red for summer's blood runs sealed Last Line: Knowing they pledge their faith in summer's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve Subject(s): Flowers; Red (color); Roses; Summer CHERISH, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the window I see her bend to the roses Last Line: What comes: wife, while I can, while my breath, each hurried petal %can still find her Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening CHIAROSCURO, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty was disrobing Last Line: From the garden of june. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Lilies; Nudity; Nakedness CHICORY AND DAISIES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift your flowers / on bitter stems Last Line: With her teeth! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers CHILD OF SUMMER, by ANNA WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Child of summer, lovely rose Last Line: "tis lasting beauty to be wise." Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses; Transience; Impermanence CHILDHOOD AS A GHOST PHOTOGRAPH, by LESLEY CARLIN Poem Source First Line: There would be lilacs. There would be blue halls Last Line: A riddle solved; a superlative likeness Subject(s): Flowers CHILDLESS, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: When bewhiles there's the soft-fallin' show'rs Last Line: Jist for daisies to twine! Subject(s): Childlessness; Daisies; Flowers CHILDREN DANCE: 2. THE DAISY, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: The sky of december is limpid Last Line: And we danced our round on the hill Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Dancing And Dancers; Flowers CHIMONANTHUS FRAGRANS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These blossoms of empurpled hue Last Line: Its worth, when all the rest are flown! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Solitude; Loneliness CHORIAMBICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, what ailed thee to leave life that was Last Line: Sweet was love to thee once; now in thine eyes sweeter than love is sleep. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The CHRISTINE'S SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up in tentoleena land Last Line: Out of tentoleena land! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Flowers; Kisses; Elves CHRISTMAS FLOWERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is so bleak and deserted Last Line: The crown of them all! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS TREE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: The little christmas tree was born Last Line: O magic sight, this joyous night! %o laden, sparkling tree! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons CHRYSANTHEMUM, by DUAN SHUQING Poem Source First Line: Hoarded for holiday wine Last Line: Together we will conquer the fifth-watch frost Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by PARK NAMSU Poem Source First Line: The chrysanthemums madden the ground Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: November with mysterious feet Last Line: Hid in each misty fold. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the last red leaves are shining in the rich / october sun Last Line: And the fury of the tempest whirl athwart the darkening day. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Shaggy-headed urchins from the gardens of japan Last Line: Doom of blast and frost and snowdrift on the summer's throne! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers CIVIL MARRIAGE, by CECILIA BUSTAMANTE Poem Source First Line: At the ceremonies %people gathered Last Line: Like rare flowers %with their roots in reverse Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Marriage CLEARING AN OLD FLOWERBED, by JUDY LONGLEY Poem Source First Line: Drawn to my labors by buds Last Line: Blue and chambered, %still pulsing on its stem Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening CLEARING AT DAWN, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fields are chill; the sparse rain has stopped Last Line: Blown by the wind slowly scatters away. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CLICK TO DATE THE DRIEST GRAY ROSE UNBEARABLE WITH EROTIC, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: My listless life a concert overpowering it it's like that every night each time I go there Subject(s): Erotic Love; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses CLICK-ROSE 2: 10, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: Phone the sound %technician Last Line: The poem puddle of oil the moon hypnotizes and sips or staves %in Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Poetry And Poets; Roses CLICK-ROSE 2: 11, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: Rose zooming on the thing zeroing in on Last Line: Now we have to put up with close-up the grain of your skin %frightening so near without my being abl Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Roses CLICK-ROSE 2: 13, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: Rose then hissing in space like a hot iron in water Last Line: Grandmother's neck-piece my guage of the past Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Past; Roses CLICK-ROSE 2: 15, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: To the poem I read in the making Last Line: Unseasonably hot terrifying which the other as close as they%are have not been through Subject(s): Flowers; Language; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Roses CLICK-ROSE 2: 16, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: Rose aye (aye from I'm there) Last Line: They aye of there I am you assail it rose oxyhydrogen blow-torch %always at your labors and at nobod Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses CLICK-ROSE 2: 17, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: That night I ran after you things you have to do you do quickly Last Line: And will I get better how to come closer without writing) Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Writing And Writers CLICK-ROSE 2: 18, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: The world spun round where I wasn't prepared Last Line: Change of object and this light you are the only one who %knew how not to project it hello sponge Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Roses CLICK-ROSE 2: 19, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: Ronsard's has stuck its head out the door which doesn't shut Last Line: Certain days the past idle is the opposite of the presence of %the rose Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Roses CLIFF, by KIM HAEGYONG Poem Source First Line: No flower is in sight. It is fragrant Last Line: True, I lie down. Ah, ah. Fragrance is %the flower - the flower, invisible, unseen Subject(s): Flowers CLOUD BASKETS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds that hide the sun with showers Last Line: Just the flowers I love the best. Subject(s): Clouds; Flowers CLOUDS, by MELVILLE CANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were no flowers in the sky Last Line: Fragrant and without a stain. Subject(s): Clouds; Flowers; July; Sky CLOVER'S SIMPLE FAME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The daisy that has looked behind %has compromised its power Variant Title(s): Poem: 1232; Poem: 125 Subject(s): Flowers COBBLER KEEZAR'S VISION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beaver cut his timber Last Line: And love goes sailing by. Subject(s): Flowers; Massachusetts COINS OF MIST, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who's the little old man selling matches? Last Line: Where's the light in the sky -- and who watches? Subject(s): Flowers; London; Numismatics; Thames (river); Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical COLD AND QUIET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold, my dear, -- cold and quiet Last Line: Love, now the children slumber, I come out to thee. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Silence; Dead, The COLLECTOR, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How the meadows dazzle this morning Last Line: Forget-me-not, all the pretty creatures %that yearned so ardently from their dewy beds Subject(s): Flowers COLUMBINE: COLUMBINE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance Last Line: They say 'a made a good end Subject(s): Flowers COMBINATIONS, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: Heartache and a crimson rose Last Line: But sorrow twists the mouth. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Wind; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness COME SLOWLY, EDEN!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Enters - and is lost in balms Subject(s): Flowers COME TRUE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morrow!' breathed the blossom Last Line: "and then together pass away." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers COMPENSATION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: On days when I remember Last Line: Grow, I find, in shade. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening COMPENSATION, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: The moon floats grandly up through rose to blue Last Line: With cold and death comes more abundant life. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening COMRADE SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hold not in our power Last Line: In vine-clad bowers drinking! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Muses; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Wine CONJUNCTIONS OF MORNING GLORIES, by MARTHA RONK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lists of conjunctions, a leg Last Line: A bird scolds even before, even without. %and. And. And Subject(s): Flowers; Language CONNOISSEUSE OF SLUGS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a connoisseuse of slugs Last Line: Gleaming in the dark air, eager and so %trusting you could weep Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening CONSIDER THE LILIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the radiant star above Last Line: Than e'er was wedded unto sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Silence CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solomon most glorious in array Last Line: Thou who gatherest lilies, gather us and wear. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers preach to us if we will hear Last Line: To nourish one small seed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flowers; Lilies; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CONSUMMATION, by JAMES TERRY WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not poppies - plant not poppies on my grave Last Line: That hints the scent of roses—as they pass. Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Roses; Tombs; Tombstones CONTINUATION / POEM OF CONTINUATION, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: In fact you come along with them Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses CONTRAST, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A great rose garden, redolent of bloom Last Line: But that it blooms inside a prison wall. Subject(s): Flowers; Prisons & Prisoners; Roses COR MIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still sometimes in my secret heart of hearts Last Line: Like summer, rouse one day the slumbering sense? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Roses; Seasons CORALIE, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale water flowers Last Line: And my little girl and I cry softly together. Subject(s): Girls; Death; Flowers; Grief CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War CORSAGE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: I stood in front of the fridge Last Line: And returning to the house my parents lived in Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Variant Title(s): Remembering Your Fathe Subject(s): Fathers; Flowers; Memory 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 COUNTRYSIDE: 12, by JOSE GOMES FERREIRA Poem Source First Line: So many flowers - blue, green, white, yellow, red and the lilies Last Line: Fragrant with the wonder of existence %and the dream of all natural things Subject(s): Colors; Country Life; Flowers; Nature COURTSHIP OF FLOWERS, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring buds are bursting Last Line: Are booming their bells. Subject(s): Bells; Flowers; Spring COWSLIPS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children run and leap Last Line: Go where they please. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Heaven; Keys; Childhood; Paradise CRAB-APPLE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Crab-apples, crab-apples, out in the wood Last Line: In four or five acorn-cups, locked with a key %in a cupboard of mine at the root of the tree Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons CRABGRASS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Poison or blowtorch %it-only a trace root Last Line: Partner, she says-let me catch my breath Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Weeds CRITICAL CONDITION: PRECIPICE, by KIM HAEGYONG Poem Source First Line: The flower is not invisible Last Line: The invisible flower - invisible flower Subject(s): Flowers CROCUS, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Crocus of yellow, new and gay Last Line: Dance then fairies, for joy, and sing %the song of the coming again of spring Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons DAFFODIL AND DAISY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deck'd in many gems of morn Last Line: That one sweet pearl the daisy wore. Subject(s): Daffodils; Daisies; Flowers DAFFODILS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A battered english actor, hired to act Last Line: She stands -- the poor fool is no more forlorn. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Flowers; Fools; Marigolds; Plays & Playwrights; Soul; Idiots DAFFODILS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered lonely as a cloud Last Line: And dances with the daffodils. Variant Title(s): The Daffodils Subject(s): Daffodils; Flowers DAILY LIFE OF THE WORKER BEE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We breed plants, order seeds from the %opulent pornography o Last Line: Like lover letters turned up in an attic trunk %her honey remains to sweeten us Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening DAISES, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: On april nights, mild, soft and beautiful Last Line: Love too they comprehend-they have been flowers! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Love; Spring DAISIES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Daisies at the door Last Line: Eddie died Subject(s): Death; Flowers DAISIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down on the hill on grandfather's farm Last Line: You bring to me to-day. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Memory; Youth DAISIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peacemakers ye, the daisies, from the soil Last Line: And lifting e'en the lowliest above. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers DAISIES, by CARL H. P. THURSTON Poem Text First Line: Golden daisies in the meadow Last Line: "softly saying, ""come and play." Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Yale University DAISIES, by YI HAYUN Poem Source First Line: I love daisies blowing in the fields Last Line: Like lonely daisies blowing and fading %in the fields Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers DAISIES OF FLORENCE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bambini picking daisies in the new spring grass Last Line: Ripening the transient under her veil Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Daisies; Florence, Italy; Flowers; Paintings And Painters DAISY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dayseye hugging the earth Last Line: Blades of limpid seashell. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers DAISY FIELD, by ELEANOR JANE OLMSTEAD Poem Text First Line: The yellow daisies glisten Last Line: By the fall. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers DAISY: INNOCENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'd choose to be a daisy Last Line: To welcome heaven's bright sunshine, %and heaven's bright tear-drops too Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers DANCE SONG, by ANGELO POLIZIANO Poem Source First Line: I found myself, young girls, while it was may Last Line: In a green garden, at the break of day Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Roses DANDELION, by KATE LOUISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: He is a roguish little elf Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Weeds DANDELION, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little soldier with the golden helmet Last Line: There is only the grass to fight! Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELION, by NELLIE M. GARABRANT Poem Source First Line: There's a dandy little fellow Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELION, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dandelion, fuzzy-top, must I stop my play? Last Line: I've really got to know at once if mother's wanting me. Subject(s): Children; Dandelions; Flowers; Play; Weeds; Childhood DANDELION, by EMMET PENDLETON Poem Text First Line: The dandelion has gone to seed Last Line: Her daintiness to hold her there. Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELION, by KATHARINE PYLE Poem Source First Line: I found a little old elfin man Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELION'S PALLID TUBE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That sepulture is o'er Variant Title(s): Poem: 1519; Poem: 156 Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by JOHN ALBEE Poem Text First Line: Now dandelions in the short, new grass Last Line: A spirit form, till on the sight it dies. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: One year the dandelions decided to play a game Last Line: Like the sea supplying food although it is killed over and over Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the climbing meadows Last Line: On earth's green, windy coat. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my lawn, I know not why, the dandelions Last Line: Their birth, and shrivel at the slightest breath, and perish from the earth. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Lilacs; Weeds DANDELIONS, by LUELLA DOWD SMITH Poem Text First Line: The stars that fell from heaven last night Last Line: A promise golden and divine. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON Poem Source First Line: The golden dandelion stars Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDELIONS, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her on the yellow rise Last Line: Though I look every day. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Vision; Weeds DANDELIONS TELL NO LIES, by MICHAEL RIGSBY REVERE Poem Source First Line: I love flowers Last Line: Whispering for help %3,000 miles away Subject(s): Flowers DANDELIONS: ORACLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some young and saucy dandelions Last Line: But long grey locks instead Subject(s): Flowers DANDY DANDELION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dandy dandelion wakes Last Line: His bright and shining crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds DANDYLIONS TELL NO LIES, by MICHAEL RIGSBY REVERE Poem Source First Line: I like flowers %because they have Last Line: Whispering for help %2,000 miles away Subject(s): Flowers DAVID AND BATHSHUA: A LULLABY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Darkness steals o'er hill and valley Last Line: For silence broods upon a world at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Peace; Rest; Silence; Spring DAYS THAT ARE TAPESTRIES, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Some days go by Last Line: A rapturous, singing mirth! Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Singing & Singers; Tapestries 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 DE AMORE ET SPINIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a garden fenced with glowing finger Last Line: One colour hath the blood and one the rose Subject(s): Flowers;gardens & Gardening;love DE RERUM NATURA, LIBER PRIMUS: BOOK 1. LINES 176-209, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why only in the spring are roses borne Last Line: To all things, which distinguisheth their kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Spring 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 DEATH OF THE FLOWER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my mother, the wildwood Last Line: When my poor life passed away. Subject(s): Flowers DEBUTANTES, by NICOLE DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: That was the summer my roommate kept getting flowers Last Line: With good posture, %and waited Subject(s): Courtship; Debutantes; Flowers DECORATION DAY ON THE PLACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's lonesome - sorto' lonesome, - it's Last Line: On ev'ry soldier's grave I'd love to lay a lily thare. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Fourth Of July; Graves; Patriotism; Roses; Soldiers; Independence Day; Tombs; Tombstones DEDICATION, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is the solitude that rare flowers know Last Line: Gold-fortuned I, whose very breath thou art! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Flowers DEGENERACY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has nature's self been going backward Last Line: And yet are faithful now no more. Subject(s): Faith; Flowers; Nature; Belief; Creed DESIGN, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast fashioned the rose Last Line: Sprung towards the sky! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses DESIGN OF WHITE LILACS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In alleys of lilacs Last Line: Moon-words, sun-words. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs DESIRE, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My phalaenopsis orchid trembles when I step into the room Last Line: And kiss the orchid flower, imagining open lips Subject(s): Desire; Flowers DESOLATED GARDENS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trampling armies leave discomforted Last Line: O desolated gardens, with your graves! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Love; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones DESTINY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three roses, wan as moonlight, and weighed down Last Line: Shut in the icy palm of her dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Roses; Death - Babies DEW, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Love is the flower of the world Last Line: The dust of the world like dew. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Love DEZIR, by MICER FRANCISCO IMPERIAL Poem Source First Line: Passing on no vain journey was I upon the Last Line: And that alone is worthy to be put beside %her face Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: I TOOK OFF PETAL AFTER PETAL, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: I took off petal after petal, as if you were a rose Last Line: Immense and living Subject(s): Diaries; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Poetry And Poets; Roses DIRTY POEM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow lies on my fields Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening DIRTY POEM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow lies on my fields Last Line: Why don't you hurry up %and take your clothes off? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening 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 DISENCHANTMENT, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love has sicklied unto loath Last Line: The very buttercups are rancid. Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of DOMEDAY BOOK: JOHN CAMPBELL AND CARL EATON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carl eaton and john campbell both were raised Last Line: In fairbanks, and the talk is in these words: Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Life; Love DOOMED BRIGHT CITY, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Remembering I had sold the sight Last Line: No epitaph is needed for the race. Subject(s): Apples; Cities; Flowers; Fruit; Urban Life DOWN-FLOWERS; TO MAURICE MAETERLINCK, by SADAKICHI HARTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weird phantoms rise in the dawn-wind's blow Last Line: To strew these dawn-flowers at their feet. Subject(s): Dawn; Dramatists; Flowers; Life; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sunrise; Dramatists DREAMINGS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bog blossom's golden pistil Last Line: One who has ne'er forgotten, one who can ne'er forget. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares DWELLING IN PEACE ON THE DOUBLE NINTH, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was dwelling in peace and loved the name 'double ninth.' Last Line: The quiet life has indeed many joys, %there is something achieved in just lingering on Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Life EACH THING I HEAR YOU SPELL OUT, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: In brilliant corners and elsewhere Subject(s): Flowers; Roses EARLIEST SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iron scallops border the path, barely Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening EARLIEST SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iron scallops border the path, barely Last Line: Brings us to bells or flames Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening EARLY CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by GU RUOPU Poem Source First Line: Having a special love Last Line: Under the frosts of autumn Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers EARLY SPRING EAST OF TOWN, by YANG CHU-YUAN Poem Source First Line: The best time for a poet is when spring is new Last Line: The whole town [or, everyone] will be out gawking at flowers Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Poetry And Poets; Spring EARTH POEMS: 3, by JAVIER HERAUD Poem Source First Line: I want two geraniums Last Line: For my own vegetables Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring; Vegetables EARTH WISDOM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the earth: / I love you, flower Last Line: Said the earth. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; World EASTER FLOWERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blooming to garland easter Last Line: To deck our king's highway. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection EASTER FLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are his witnesses; out of the dim Last Line: Stands flooded with light of the new-risen sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER LILIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, lovely easter lilies Last Line: Of spotless purity! Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; The Resurrection EASTER LILIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though long in wintry sleep ye lay Last Line: Of christ, the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; The Resurrection EASTER REVELATION, by CLARA EMELIA ULLMAN Poem Text First Line: No mortal yet knows how the white lily grows Last Line: Life, and love never-failing and true. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Lilies; The Resurrection ECHOES: 45, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the brake the nightingale Last Line: Love a last year's rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses ECSTASY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Each lovely rose that budded yesterday Last Line: Here too they think, they struggle, and they love!' Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nature; Roses ELDERBERRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Tread quietly Last Line: Unseen I watch them, safe and snug! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons ELEGIAC SONNET: 37. SENT TO THE HON. MRS. O'NEILL, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet's fancy takes from flora's realm Last Line: And native goodness of a soul like thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Flowers; O'neill, Henrietta (1758-1793) ELEGIAC SONNET: 85, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fairest flowers are gone! For tempests fell Last Line: Flattering the languid heart, where only reason reigns! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Flowers ELEGIAC SONNET: 91. REFLECTIONS ON SOME DRAWINGS OF PLANTS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can in groups these mimic flowers compose Last Line: Enshrines thy image in thy mother's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Flowers EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 17. THE DIFFICULT ADVENTURE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While wanton love in gathering roses strays Last Line: Of bloody prickles where no rose appears. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Thorns END OF AUTUMN, by OEMARU Poem Source First Line: Frost! You may fall! Last Line: No flowers at all! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening ENDRINA AND TROTA-CONVENTOS, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then spake the old dame cheerily: 'right well I wot, perdie' Last Line: And the pressure of her hand reveals don love's all-potent sway Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses EPIGAEA ASLEEP, by WILLIAM WHITMAN BAILEY Poem Text First Line: Arbutus lies beneath the snows Last Line: Thy merry morning comes not yet! Subject(s): Flowers EPIGRAM, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: A perfume of colors invaded margot Last Line: On her fresh clothes Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Perfume; Smells EPITAPH: 25, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scent of faded roses once a-bloom Last Line: I waked—then slept with summer and her flowers. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lovely flower fell to seed Last Line: That she would grow again. Subject(s): Grandparents; African Americans; Death; Flowers; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lovely flower fell to seed Last Line: That she would grow again. Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Flowers; Grandparents; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ERIC'S DIRGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shon'st thou but to pass away Last Line: Flowers we strew above thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Soldiers; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones ERYTHRONIUM AMERICANUM (LILIACEAE), by M. TRAVIS LANE Poem Source First Line: This is a small flower Last Line: For earth, itself, its private needs, %not us Subject(s): Earth; Flowers EVENING, by LUIS FELIPE CONTARDO Poem Source First Line: Tis like that eve which I shall ne'er forget! Last Line: Uprising like the fragrance of a flower Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Memory; Prayer EVENING, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evening's angel passes where flowers glow.. Last Line: An angel gathers this sad dream of thine. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight EVENING CHANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strew before our lady's picture Last Line: We will trust and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Mary And Martha (bible); Peace; Portraits; Roses; Women In The Bible EVERY WILD FLOWER'S FACE, by JIM DEWITT Poem Source First Line: Craves attention Last Line: Almost too brightly virgin Subject(s): Colors; Flowers; Summer EVERYBODY KNOWS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers we forget to buy Last Line: Everybody knows what flowers cost Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving EXALTED FLOWER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: No more of that, you butterfly Last Line: And vanish out of sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Flowers EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 2. DAISY'S SONG, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, with his great eye Last Line: Lambs bleat my lullaby. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Spring F.R.H.'S THANKS, WITH 'SONGS OF GRACE AND GLORY' TO CLARA OVERTON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet flowers of spring Last Line: In heaven above. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grace; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise FABLES: 1ST SER. 45. THE POET AND THE ROSE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the man who builds his name Last Line: To wither, envy, pine and fade? Subject(s): Fame; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses; Reputation FADED FLOWERS, by MARY M. RANDLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Tis a crimson bud I treasured years ago Last Line: That life is fair and all is well with thee. Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation FAIR IS THE ROSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fair is the rose, yet fades with heat or cold Last Line: So short-lived beauty a vain gloss doth borrow %breathing delight but none tomorrow Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses FALSE FLOWERS, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were to have been a love gift, Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Flowers, Artificial; Relationships FATHER AND LOVER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If underneath the water Last Line: Anymore? Nevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Peter Grump Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The FATHER'S BOUQUET, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: My dad not only Last Line: Throw away Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers; Flowers; Graves FAUN, by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI Poem Text First Line: Pour me my bath of sunlight Last Line: Drenched with spring fragrance of trees. Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Trees FEAR-FLAME, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it any wonder Last Line: To visit with god. Subject(s): Fear; Flowers; God; Prayer; Roses FEBRUARY: THINKING OF FLOWERS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now wind torments the field Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening FEBRUARY: THINKING OF FLOWERS, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now wind torments the field Last Line: To the tongue of the burgundy lily Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening FEE SIMPLE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have brought me a bed in earth Last Line: That I who am sleeping am I. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones FERN-LIFE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, life! Though it seems half a death Last Line: It may never attain. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Soul FEW ROSES, by KERRI BROSTROM MASTERS Poem Source First Line: We've had a few Last Line: Weeds live forever Subject(s): Flowers; Roses FIELD ASTERS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the stars in commons blue Last Line: Us star-gazers scrutinize. Subject(s): Asters; Flowers FIELD FLOWERS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye field flowers! The gardens eclipse you, 'tis true Last Line: And I wish you to grow on my tomb. Subject(s): Flowers FIELD PATH, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beans in blossom with their spots of jet Last Line: Stooped down and whipt a bit beneath his nose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses FIFTH AVENUE-SPRING AFTERNOON, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's running over with color Last Line: Rises your face! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fields; Fifth Avenue, New York City; Flowers; Primroses; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIGHTING FOR ROSES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the last freeze, in easy air Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening FIGHTING FOR ROSES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the last freeze, in easy air Last Line: A moment of light achieved, deep in the air of roses Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening FINDING THE BUDDHA, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In the corner of a garden shop, among the evengreens Last Line: Against the body, your smile nearly ready %to bloom Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Meditation; Romance FINIS, by ESTELLE CHASE SAMUELSON Poem Text First Line: Last night / I held a rose Last Line: A thorn. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Thorns FIRE AND THE ROSE, by FRANK X. GASPAR Poem Source First Line: Some days are meant to be filled with shame Last Line: That this, or something like this, would be possible Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; Roses FIREFLIES, by JOSE GOROSTIZA Poem Source First Line: A thin mist %has flowered the tips of peach tree branches Last Line: With paper lanterns on our shoulders Subject(s): Absence; Fireflies; Flowers; Spring FIRST AND LAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the borderlands of being Last Line: The white sweet rose of age. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The FIRST ROSE OF SUMMER, by CHARLES W. DENISON Poem Source Subject(s): Flowers; Roses FIRST SPRING FLOWERS, by MARY WOOLSEY HOWLAND Poem Text First Line: I am watching for the early buds to wake Last Line: It, too, may reach him, where he sleeping lies. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The FIT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was time to come to life, this could be understood Last Line: In shape and flower Subject(s): Flowers FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 2, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two pictures of a rose in the dark Subject(s): Flowers; Photography & Photographers; Roses FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 2, by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two pictures of a rose in the dark Last Line: Back toward the whir %and the whistling of things Subject(s): Flowers; Photography And Photographers; Roses FIVE ON FIVE AND SUDDENLY, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Even while dancing I reflected on when the rose will cease to broadcast the story it cannot begin Subject(s): Flowers; Roses FIVE ROSES IN THE MORNING, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On tv the showbiz of war Last Line: For us, I mean Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses FLAME LILIES, by CHRISTINE F. BRONSON Poem Text First Line: Three children on a long, white road Last Line: So close the lilies are. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies FLERIDA AND DON DUARDOS, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the month of april Last Line: Against the might of death and love %in vain is all assay Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Flowers; Love; Spring FLEUR DE LIS, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: A myriad dawns are in these cups. They hold Last Line: When warming earth lifts up her fleur de lis. Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FLEURS DU MAL, by MARILYN MASIKER Poem Source First Line: Because women's bodies aren't straight inside Last Line: On the floor %near my heel Subject(s): Flowers FLOOD TIME, by FLORA LOUISE HUNN Poem Text First Line: Sappho, two thousand years ago Last Line: The rose is still the queen of flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) FLORA, by HENRY PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, for that afternoon, that lane Last Line: So I had green, white, red, and blue. Subject(s): Flowers 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 FLORA IN JANUARY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The goddess slept. About her where she lay Last Line: And christmas-roses made a veil above her. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; January; Spring FLORA TO CLAUDE, ON HIS PLUCKING A ROSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! You thoughtless cruel boy Last Line: The glory of my summer bower. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Roses FLORAL APOSTLES, by OPHIE LOU NALL Poem Text First Line: Sweep, breezes; sweep and blow Last Line: Unlabored motion, full of ease. Subject(s): Flowers FLORAL TEACHING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye red-blushing summer roses, ye Last Line: But rest awhile waiting the morning beam. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Roses; World FLORILEGIUM, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day the purple clematis climbs further up the wire beside the kitchen door Last Line: When he forced her mother, the sweet nymph cleomine Subject(s): Flowers; Mythology - Classical FLORIST WEARS KNEE-BREECHES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My flowers are reflected Last Line: And place them before you %in a white dish Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER, by LEE WILSON DODD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our songs are dead and dead in vain Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER, by KIM CHUN-SOO Poem Source First Line: It is nothing but a mere pose Last Line: Meaningful to each other, %you to me, I to you Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: We are the people. Rose and wound Last Line: Flower. Make spring thick for me, too Subject(s): Flowers; Spring FLOWER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked for riches Last Line: With the rainbow of your coming and going Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER AND THORN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At shiraz, in a sultan's garden, stood Last Line: Seem to thee like may, dear! Subject(s): Flowers; Thorns FLOWER BED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A flower bed, a bed Last Line: Shine on me! Shine on me Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER BEFORE THE LEAF, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower before the leaf, boy-loved rhodora Last Line: Dawn to him! Subject(s): Flowers; Love FLOWER CALENDAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The snow-drop in purest white arraie Last Line: Then ivy and holly-berries are seen, %and yule-clog and wassail come round again Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER CHORUS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O such a commotion under the ground Last Line: Yes, millions beginning to grow. Subject(s): Flowers; March (month); Nature FLOWER FORTRESS, by THOMAS ROSENLOCHER Poem Source First Line: The cherries by the fence are flowering Last Line: Seems to be praying, sceptically, for mercy Subject(s): Cherries; Flowers; Fruit FLOWER GIRL, by WALKER WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Old women with unflowerlike voices Last Line: And her voice is weeds in the distance. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER GUIDANCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went from flower to flower Last Line: Never pick a flower. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can support it no longer Last Line: It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Mount Monadnock, New Hampshire FLOWER LULLABY, by ADDIE LITCHFIELD Poem Text First Line: All of the flowers are going to bed Last Line: "with pretty night-caps of dark brown and red." Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER OF A SOUTHERN GARDEN, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And bear my fleeting soul away to heaven Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven FLOWER SHOW, by VESTA WOODBURY MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: Flowers - flowers - nothing but flowers Last Line: My memory dwells on superlative beauty. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER SUTRA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep drowsy shade under the broad leaves Last Line: Flutter about, watching me and crying, %'kegonkyo' Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER TOKENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Lilies are white Last Line: I will have you Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER VIEWING, by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: Like the thirteenth-century nun abutsu Last Line: Gathered on a night with no moon Subject(s): Flowers; Sight FLOWER WAGON, by BURKE BOYCE Poem Source First Line: With potted blooms, and sprightly sprays Last Line: Proclaim the perfect delegate %of hope that springs eternal Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER WE COULD NOT NAME, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Clematis climbs the weathered Last Line: Came away Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER-DE-LUCE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful lily, dwelling by still rivers Last Line: The world more fair and sweet. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies FLOWER-ENVYING COLD: 1, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I await %people in the spring Last Line: I await %people in the spring Subject(s): Envy; Flowers FLOWER-GATHERING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left you in the morning Last Line: That I've been long away. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWER-PIECES: 1. LOVE LIES BLEEDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Last Line: Love lies bleeding. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Love; Roundels; World FLOWERETS, by ACHILLE PAYSANT Poem Text First Line: Think not I could forget your graces fallen asleep Last Line: His tomb. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Night; Youth; Dead, The; Bedtime FLOWERPHONE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See the morning-glories hung Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories FLOWERS, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sisterhood of flowers Last Line: Thou and the evening star, and she, and I. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by ETHEL MAE ARTZ Poem Text First Line: What can possess a greater love Last Line: Some lonely soul may leave today. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Perfume FLOWERS, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right now I am the flower girl Last Line: Hoping I could still save him Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right now I am the flower girl Last Line: Hoping I could still save him Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are / running with the weeds Last Line: Is love Subject(s): Colors; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love FLOWERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are %running with the weeds Last Line: And the name of the place %is love Subject(s): Colors; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love FLOWERS, by NETTIE MCCARVER CONOVER Poem Source First Line: Oh, friend, if you truly love me Last Line: That jesus lives in you Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Friendship; Gifts And Giving FLOWERS, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some men never think of it Last Line: Have lasted all this while Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Love FLOWERS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing less than one thing Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What favourite flowers are mine, I cannot say- Last Line: My favourite flower must be a mossy stone! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my flowers! On your bosom Last Line: Spring! My lovely spring, come soon! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Flowers; Spring FLOWERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buds and bells! Sweet april pleasures Last Line: Hears the little children too! Subject(s): Flowers; Praise; Spring FLOWERS, by FLORENCE TABER HOLT Poem Text First Line: Not all flowers have souls Last Line: Wrapt in their golden atmosphere., Subject(s): Flowers 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 FLOWERS, by HWAL YUKSA Poem Source First Line: The sky reaches its limit in the east Last Line: Dreaners, like so many enchanted butterfliles, %I call you from this far-off place Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by ROBERTA CAMPBELL LAWSON Poem Text First Line: Roses of red and iris blue Last Line: Are the words from your garden you phoned to me here. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spake full well, in language quaint and olden Last Line: Emblems of the bright and better land. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh tropic love, to thee we bring Last Line: To star thy deathless field. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deep strangeness Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have left behind us Last Line: And fade in the light he scatters. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Her garden was her pleasure and her care Last Line: And by her flowers, in agony she wept. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Nature FLOWERS, by H. W. SLOAN Poem Text First Line: In my garden there are flowers Last Line: It takes god to make a flower. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature - Religious Aspects FLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence are they? Who hath piloted Last Line: The magi and the star. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Magi FLOWERS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But behind the flower Last Line: People must come to and stare at and pass by? Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS, by ANTHONY WHISTLER Poem Text First Line: Let sages with superfluous pains Last Line: Ye cannot fail to please. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS -- WELL -- IF ANYBODY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Far superior to mine Variant Title(s): Poem: 137; Poem: 9 Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS AND MUSIC IN A ROOM OF SICKNESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Lightly tread! Still tranquilly she sleeps Last Line: Conqueror! Thou son of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Sickness; Theology; Illness FLOWERS FOR MY FRIEND, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER Poem Text First Line: The flowers that I would give my friend Last Line: While he can see. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Love - Loss Of FLOWERS FOR THE GRACES, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weave garlands, maiden, from the strands Last Line: But turn aside from the ungarlanded. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical FLOWERS IN THE FACTORY, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The firedew, the glow-worm light Last Line: Lights a candle in the cruel grave Subject(s): Factories; Flowers FLOWERS IN THE HILLS, by KIM SO-WOL Poem Source First Line: Flowers bloom %in the hills Last Line: Spring, summer and autumn through %flowers fade Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS IN THE VALLEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o there was a woman, and she was a widow" Last Line: "with blushes red, 'I come,' she said; / 'farewell to the flowers in the valley'" Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS IN WINTER; PAINTED UPON A PORTE LIVRE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange to greet, this frosty morn Last Line: Her darlings of the wood. Subject(s): Flowers; Winter FLOWERS LAUGH AND TALK AND PLAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: Well, perhaps you've seen them grow Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS OF AMSTERDAM, by JEAN JANZEN Poem Source First Line: For the sake of the gospel Last Line: Glistening petals, opening a secret passage %in the deep and watery place Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Flowers; Persecution; Religion FLOWERS OF DARKNESS, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the night blooms, unfurling Subject(s): African Americans; Flowers; Negroes; American Blacks FLOWERS OF DARKNESS, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly the night blooms, unfurling Last Line: With you and the blossomig night %for what flower, plucked, %lingers long? Subject(s): African Americans; Flowers FLOWERS OF MANHATTAN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ... Early morning petal-strewn sidewalks of manhattan Last Line: Makes a fist and throws punches at the air. Love’s no secret now Subject(s): Flowers; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FLOWERS OF MANHATTAN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ... Early morning petal-strewn sidewalks of manhattan Last Line: Makes a fist and throws punches at the air. Love's no secret now Subject(s): Flowers; New York City FLOWERS ON PARADE, by STELLA PAYNE CROW Poem Text First Line: A honeybee buzzed in my ear Last Line: Such beauty only god has made. Subject(s): Flowers FLOWERS TELL MONTHS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold buttons in the garden today Subject(s): Flowers; Spring FLOWERS' KNOWLEDGE, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They know the time to go! Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Flowers FLOWRETS, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little blossoms, unpretentious flowrets Last Line: I and you! Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FOG IN THE FLOWERS, by D. G. JONES Poem Source First Line: Fog in the flowers, the night warm Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Flowers; Fog; Night 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 A PICTURE OF ST.DOROTHEA, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear a basket lined with grass Last Line: Nor fruit, nor flowers, nor dorothy. Subject(s): Dorothea, St. (4th Century); Flowers; Fruit FOR A THIRD ANNIVERSARY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You brought me wildflowers once, not the real ones Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Flowers; Time FOR AITANA, by RAFAEL ALBERTI Poem Source First Line: Aitana, my child, springtime bows Last Line: The air, dear child aitana, aitana, my child Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring FOR EVER AND EVERMORE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The woods are no less rich for all the flowers within them Last Line: For ever and evermore! Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FOR MARY, QUILTING, by MARTHA E. BOSWORTH Poem Source First Line: In gardens where no flowers wilt Last Line: In gardens where no flowers wilt Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening FOR STOICS, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: No monument shall mark Last Line: But the flesh knows. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dust; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The FOR THE BRIAR ROSE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fateful slumber floats and flows Last Line: And smite this sleeping world awake. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses FOR THE LOVE OF GERALD FINZI: SPIDER MUMS, by MARY LEADER Poem Source First Line: Not these, I think, stroking Last Line: They better face: even the most secret vulnerability is %obvious Subject(s): Flowers 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 FORCED BLOOM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such pleasure one needs to make for oneself. Subject(s): Flowers FORCED BLOOM, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such pleasure one needs to make for oneself Last Line: You smellthe wild scent all day on your hand Subject(s): Flowers; Love – Erotic FOREST FLOWERS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some flowers take station close to where we stay Last Line: Because they will whoso touches stem Subject(s): Flowers FORGET-ME-NOT, by PEARL GUNN FOWLER Poem Text First Line: Oh, dear little forget - me - not Last Line: "a hero -- wounded -- has chosen me." Subject(s): Flowers; Imaginary Conversations FORMULATION, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into which of the mind's moulds Last Line: Come in a form I shall not too much fear. Subject(s): Flowers; Soul; Vision FORSYTHIA, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It caught my eye a while ago, lit up Subject(s): Flowers FOUR CAPRI IMPROMPTUS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet as the furze flower fainting in the noon heat Last Line: But not less quickly withered? Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Ocean FOUR LYRICS FOR SIBILLA ALERAMO, SELS., by DINO CAMPANA Poem Source First Line: In a moment Last Line: P.S. And so we forgot the roses Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Little Gidding Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter; Historians FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season Last Line: Into the crowded knot of fire %and the fire and the rose are one Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Little Giddin Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 2. SPRING IN TUSCANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-red lilies that bloom on the banner Last Line: Fare well we may not who say farewell. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Spring FOUR STONES, by CHRISTINE BOYKA KLUGE Poem Source First Line: After the night's hard rain Last Line: Awash like four mute stones Subject(s): Flowers; Rain; Seashore FOUR WHITE LILIES, by ANNA CALLENDER BRACKETT Poem Source First Line: Twas a vision, a dream of the night Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Transcendentalism FOXGLOVE: INSINCERITY, by MARY WEBB Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The foxglove bells, with lolling tongue Last Line: Pale, crowded steeples rise Subject(s): Flowers; Foxgloves FRAGRANCE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The woodsman loves the smell of pines Last Line: From the gardens of the sea. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FRAGRANT HANDS, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange arrangement to comfort the heart Last Line: Except love, but only when it begins Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Flowers; Hafez (1326-1390); Prisons & Prisoners; Smells; Hafiz (1326-139); Convicts; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FRAGRANT HANDS, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange arrangement to comfort the heart Last Line: Nothing in this world is without terrible barriers- %except love, but only when it begins.' Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Flowers; Hafez (1326-1390); Prisons And Prisoners; Smells FREESIA FLOWER, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the tiny trumpets Subject(s): Flowers FRENCH FORMAL, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Don't count me in. Your garden has statues Last Line: As an open field incised by a hunter's sights Subject(s): Flowers; France; Gardens And Gardening FRIMAIRE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, we are like two flowers Last Line: For us both. Ah, dear, I love you! Subject(s): Flowers; Love FRINGED GENTIAN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God made a little gentian Last Line: "creator! Shall I bloom?" Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians FRINGED GENTIANS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near where I live there is a lake Last Line: They'd die of homesickness that day. Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians FROM A MIMOSA SKETCHBOOK, by GUSTAF SOBIN Poem Source First Line: ...Of flowers, the year's Last Line: Spectacle of some all- %too-fleeting placation Variant Title(s): 'from A Mimosa Sketchbook Subject(s): Flowers FROM AN OFFICE WINDOW, by FRANCES M. BALLARD Poem Text First Line: The tulip bed is flaming in the square Last Line: Than in this high tower where I stand. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Flowers; Office Work; Estrangement; Outcasts FROM THE CASTELLO, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My window is a frame for one dark tree Last Line: I shall possess thee now for all my days! Subject(s): Castles; Cypress Trees; Flowers; Lilacs; Vision FROM THE FRENCH, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The color of coral and of your lips Last Line: Permitting space and voice to go without reference Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Flowers; Kisses; Love FROST, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to a call in the late september night Last Line: Was there none to answer when your sweet souls cried? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The FROST TO-NIGHT, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apple-green west and an orange bar Last Line: Half sad, half proud, my arms I fill. Subject(s): Cold; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life FURNACE OF COLORS, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who half asleep, or waking, does not hear it Last Line: Yes, and the field flowers, these deceptive blossoms, %breakfrom the furnace Subject(s): Colors; Flowers FURNESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From my low window I behold Last Line: On wood and hill and waterway. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Evening; Flowers; Gold; Roses; Sunset; Twilight GAA-A-MUNA, A MOUNTAIN FLOWER, by HAROLD LITTLEBIRD Poem Source Last Line: With tender blue petals Subject(s): Flowers GAPS, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In the gaps %between the apartments Last Line: Where new things %always begin Subject(s): Flowers; Rebirth; Spring GARDEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We draw near the garden %we are quick and tread lightly Last Line: Than all the depths and fecundity of the bright flowering glade Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature GARDEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I return to the south %as to love Last Line: Of my wild and untamed heart Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening GARDEN, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A thread of sun-bleached hair spun into the iron Last Line: Would you forgive the ravages of storm %and blight, our dwindling harvests, the snow's blank staves? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature GARDEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are a garden into which a bomb once fell and did not explode, dur Last Line: They look for your reason Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature GARDEN, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Crocuses invested in the fall Last Line: The garden breathes Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Psychoanalysis; Relationships GARDEN AFTER FROST, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: I enter it like a sickroom, breathing Last Line: Such meager parting tastes Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love GARDEN DAYS: 3. THE FLOWERS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the names I know from nurse Last Line: I should live for good and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Flowers GARDEN FANCIES: 1. THE FLOWER'S NAME, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the garden she walked across Last Line: Roses, you are not so fair after all! Variant Title(s): The Flower's Name Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses GARDEN IN SEPTEMBER, SELS., by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love GARDEN OF GOLD, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: The chill and the damp under the pines Last Line: And as above them, blue as death, %ripens the isbella Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War GARDEN RIVALS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pansy in the garden-bed Last Line: "likes the larkspur best of all!" Subject(s): Beauty; Carnations; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses GARDEN THOUGHTS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us are roses Last Line: "and another ""bad""?" Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening GARDEN TIME, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I planted three small dreams today Last Line: They cannot help but grow! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses GARDEN; FOR GRETCHEN CARACAS AND HOWARD ROGOVIN, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was my garden in 1985 Last Line: Or cleaned a leaf or found another bottle Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening GARDENER, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She holds a flower today, I can't Last Line: Wanting more than I'm prepared to understand and have nurtured %revenge into elegant survival Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening GARDENER, by CRAIG RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the lawn he walks with cycling hands Last Line: For this he stands in weariness, %tired as a teapot, feeling the small of his back Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Grass; Roses GARDENER ON EVISCERATION, by V. S. M. WANG Poem Source First Line: What we have -- before us, obviously Last Line: The wild flower -- bursting the seam? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature GARDENING SONG, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: When I am in my garden Last Line: I print it on the sod. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening 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 GARDENS, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: One can raise more in a garden than he'd think Last Line: Over and over in a hundred ways. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grass GARDENS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wide, fair gardens, the rich, lush gardens Last Line: "where we kissed the mother and said ""good-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Poppies GARDENS OF THE MIND, by LILLIAN IRVINE POLLOCK Poem Text First Line: Flowers are the magic bit of leaven Last Line: For our gardens in eternity? Subject(s): Flowers GATHER ROSE-BUDS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While this green month is fleeting Last Line: All joys expire. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hair; Life; Roses; Time; Dead, The GATHERED ROSES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one through some beloved garden strays Last Line: Given to emptiness and wind and snow? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses; Snow GENTIAN, by ELIZABETH GREEN CRANE Poem Text First Line: So all day long I followed through the fields Last Line: Although sad news to his beloved he bears. Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians GENTIAN HAS A PARCHED COROLLA, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fidelity is gain %creation o'er Variant Title(s): Poem: 1424; Poem: 145 Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S BLUE MORNING GLORIES, NEW MEXICO, II, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: Two blossoms, four times natural size Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories; O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986); Paintings And Painters GERANIUM, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful evelyn hope is dead Last Line: You will wake, and remember, and understand Variant Title(s): Evelyn Hope Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The GERANIUM, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: How can you stand it -- looking at things? Last Line: Marry it? Are you so sure %of your position in the world? Subject(s): Flowers; Future; Geraniums; Vision GERANIUM, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: Tight with water, the geranium Last Line: But in the morning three dead leaves %the ones I fingered, dangle burned Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening GERANIUM, by DAN STRYK Poem Source First Line: Pruned tidy in your Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums GERANIUM, by THOM VANDER VEN Poem Source First Line: Do you think natalie goldberg would have offered Last Line: Label the unintelligible crumbs: %dehydration of geranium Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums GERANIUMS, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stuck in a bottle on the window-sill Last Line: Nor need to barter blossoms for a bed. Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums GETTING THERE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a man who carries roses, a bundle of cut Last Line: As we ride in silence the rest of the way home Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Flowers; Love; Roses GHAZEL OF UNFORSEEN LOVE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: No one could perceive the perfume Last Line: Your mouth now without light for my death Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Jasmine; Love - Loss Of GHOST FLOWERS, by ALTA SMITH BOYD Poem Text First Line: Oh, do you see them, the ghost flowers Last Line: Dancing the dance of death? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The GHOST-FLOWERS (MONOTROPA UNIFLORA), by MARY THACHER HIGGINSON Poem Text First Line: In shining groups, each stem a pearly ray Last Line: Forget the vows made in that cloistered nook. Alternate Author Name(s): Potter, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers GIFT OF TRILLIUMS, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Bandage-white and healthy Last Line: How like our flesh they would become Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening GILLIFLOWER, by IBN AL-ABBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O give me gilliflowers Last Line: To press a scholar's lip? Subject(s): Flowers GIRL BEFORE A SHRINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three lilies grew in a garden Last Line: The lily-blooms and me! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Girls; God; Lilies; Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean GIVE ME FLOWERS NOW, by NETTA LINDSEY Poem Text First Line: Why must you wait to bring flowers to me Last Line: Nor a costly monument placed at my head. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Love; Sympathy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Empathy GIVEN THE GIFT OF SPEECH AND ONLY ONE WORD, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: To whom should I have turned when the lily spoke? Last Line: Somebody must have heard - the lily spoke %you must have heard the lily say my name Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Flowers; Lilies; Nature; Speech GIVING BACK THE FLOWER, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, because you chose to follow me into the subtle sadness of night Last Line: But go, now, and tell death he must watch you, and not let you walk in your sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah Subject(s): Flowers GLADIOLA, by RONALD BAATZ Poem Source Last Line: Clinging %to life Subject(s): Flowers; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996) GLADIOLAS, by LISA RHOADES Poem Source First Line: Even now when I wander through the farmers' market Last Line: How my father's body folded as he turned and walked away Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening GLADIOLI, by TED LORD Poem Source First Line: She said they were funeral flowers Last Line: And she surely there to approve Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 3. OLD STORY-TELLING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heedless gay folk, lying at ease amid Last Line: To tales eternized by boccaccio. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Flowers; Gardens & Gardening GLORIOSAS, by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: Coarse hairy-leaved, un Last Line: Goes dead in my tongue Subject(s): Flowers GO NOT TOO NEAR A HOUSE OF ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is joy's insuring quality Variant Title(s): Poem: 1434; Poem: 147 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses GO, ROSE, GO, by WILLIAM BEALE Poem Text First Line: Go, rose, go, and on themira's breast Last Line: And for my rivals keep thy thorn. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses GOD AND MAN AND FLOWER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, my dear lord, now that it's in your hand Last Line: O find yourself in the hands of the living god Subject(s): Flowers; God; Mankind; Religion; Human Race; Theology GOD AND MAN AND FLOWER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But, my dear lord, now that it's in your hand Last Line: To fall out of [or, to find yourself in] the hands of the living god Subject(s): Flowers; God; Mankind; Religion GOD'S ACRE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, garden of confident hope Last Line: Each and all one by one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Gardens & Gardening; Flowers GOD'S GARDEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years are flowers and bloom within Last Line: And make them rose-like in his name. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; God; Religion; Theology GOD'S GOLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: God placed a gold mint in the sky Last Line: All ye with eyes! Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; May (month); Weeds GOD'S WEATHER: MAY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: There's a blurr'd roll of drumbeats. The soft south wind straying Last Line: With the sigh of the southwind, the balm of god's weather. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Months; Old Age; Spring GOING SOFTLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She makes no moan above her faded flowers Last Line: "she creeps, who must go softly all her days" Subject(s): Flowers;happiness;hope; Joy;delight;optimism GOLD HUNTING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The miser hurries through the town Last Line: Gather some before you're old! Subject(s): April; Dandelions; Flowers; Gold; Harvest; Weeds GOLD-OF-OPHIR ROSES, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: O flower of passion, rocked by balmy gales Last Line: To bloom one perfect day, and then to die. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses GOLDEN CASSIA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O brilliant blossoms that strew my way Last Line: The glimmering ghosts of a bygone dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring GOLDEN EYES, by RUFINUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, golden eyes, to win you yet Last Line: Ah, golden eyes! Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers GOLDEN HOLLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Common holly bears a berry Last Line: To cheer an old friend's eyes and nose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Holly; Roses; Nativity, The GOLDEN PULSE, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden pulse grew on the shore Last Line: Honey nor the bee. Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Love – Complaints GOLDENROD AND ASTERS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The goldenrod, the goldenrod Last Line: With the hues of paradise! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Asters; Flowers; Goldenrod GONE BEFORE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was most like a rose when it flushes rarest Last Line: Heart-pierced thro' and thro'. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Singing & Singers GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the garden that grandmother made Last Line: Why, where should I be this blessed minute? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GREAT CAESAR! CONDESCEND, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With your majestic leave! Variant Title(s): Poem: 102; Poem: 14 Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers GREAT COMRADE OF THE NORTH, SWEET GIANT OF POPPIES AND, by AGUSTI BARTRA Poem Source Last Line: Steel rose! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Poppies; Roses GREEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here fruit and flowers I bring to thee; green leaves and sprays I proffer Last Line: And sleep awhile, when thy fond love its haven shall have found. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Nature; Soul GREEN-HEARTED FLOWERS, by DORUS VREDE Poem Source First Line: Green-hearted flowers by the river Last Line: Of what are you a sign %sunshine or rain? Subject(s): Flowers; Rivers GREENHOUSE, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: A while ago, exhausted from watering the frut trees Last Line: As ever the fragile, delicate beauties %are no more Subject(s): Flowers; Greenhouses GREETING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sweet as the summer breeze Last Line: Is the love I bear to thee. Subject(s): February; Flowers; Greetings; Love; Spring GROTESQUE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do the lilies goggle their tongues at me Last Line: While you dance? Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies GROWTH, by MARION LOUISE BLISS Poem Text First Line: Below the troubled soil the rose lies Last Line: Can annul nor tidal pain avert. Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Roses GUARDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look at the yellow flowers guarding the blue gate Last Line: Whose blood is that pooled in the street? Subject(s): Blood; Flowers; Streets GYPSY'S WINDOW, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems a stage Last Line: Vase, look real, as unreal %as real roses Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Reality; Roses HAD I WIST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing Last Line: Had I wist.' Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Roses; Roundels; Wind HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The temple bell stops Last Line: Out of the flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening HAIKU, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: The morning-glory Last Line: Inner light Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories HAIKU, by ALEXIS ROTELLA Poem Source First Line: Among morning-glories Last Line: Of lingerie Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories HAIKU, by VIRGINIA BRADY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Violets Last Line: The hoof of a deer Subject(s): Flowers; Violets HAPPY HOUR, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always forget the name, Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Flowers; Forgetfulness HAPPY VALE OF TORMES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thou happy vale of tormes %grow rich with sunny showers Last Line: For my little maiden cometh %she comes to gather flowers Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Love; Roses HAREBELL, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: O bells, on stems so thin and fine! Last Line: Till daybreak wakens, cold and grey, %and elfin music fades away Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons HAREBELLS, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Drooping from thread-like stem Last Line: Or soundless requiems. Subject(s): Flowers; Harebells HASSAN, SELS., by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poet's Biography Subject(s): Flowers HAWKWEED, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: I've wanted to speak to the world Last Line: Now we have to get the others %to admit who you are Subject(s): Flowers HAWTHORN, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: These thorny branches bore the may Last Line: And hungry birdies shall be fed %on these when days are cold Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons HAWTHORN DYKE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the golden air is full of balm and bloom Last Line: Here are one at heart with all things seen and heard. Subject(s): Flowers; Hawthorn; Spring HAZEL-NUT, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Slowly, slowly, growing Last Line: Come and fill your pockets, %but leave a few to spare Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons HE KNOWS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Tis not in vain if in a glade Last Line: He knows! He knows! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Kisses; Nature HEALING, by BESS HEATH OLMSTEAD Poem Text First Line: I thought I could not bear another spring Last Line: Forget-me-nots may gather, and heart's-ease. Subject(s): Flowers; Healing; Spring; Cures HEALTH, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I cut the stem of the amaryllis, and water poured out so suddenly, I didn't Last Line: From new american writing Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Flowers; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery HEART'S AGONY, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In the spring %I see Last Line: To %bare myself and bloom Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Spring HEARTH-ROSES, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sugar-maple embers in bed Last Line: Smelling sweet in our dust. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses HEAVENLY, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are potted at night, pink, and packed with Last Line: From michigan quarterly review Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Spirituality; Theology HELEN KELLER WITH A ROSE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Others may see thee; I behold thee not Last Line: Beauty for one and all, gave fragrance for the blind! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Roses HELIODORA'S WREATH, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will weave the violet white Last Line: Every flower of the spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Flowers HENDECASYLLABICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the month of the long decline of roses Last Line: "iron blossom of frost is bound for ever." Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer; Wind HENRI BERGSON'S AN INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS, by GARRETT DOHERTY Poem Source First Line: Now to conlcude in terms of a bankless river Last Line: Each petal like the best example of %what you never could have thought Subject(s): Flowers; Paris, France 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 HER BEAUTIFUL HANDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O your hands - they are strangely fair Last Line: Like the caress of your beautiful hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Hands; Love; Roses HER CHOICE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love or hate - choose which Last Line: But ah! His hands are -- safe in hers. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Hate; Love; Roses HER DIVINE SKILL TAUGHT ME THIS, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than all nature's beauties can %in some wise man Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers HER FLOWER, by GEORGE ALBERT SOPER Poem Text First Line: Little flower, fading, dying Last Line: In her breast. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of HER LIGHT CUITAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She twankled a tune on her light Last Line: Rippled in glee up my spell-bound spine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Guitars; Music & Musicians; Roses; Stars HER LILACS, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: She did not leave her portrait framed in gold Last Line: Of growth that blossoms into victory. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs HER ROSES, by JOHN E. GLOWNEY Poem Source First Line: She bought them, young roses Last Line: In absolution, in absolution %of your many sins Subject(s): Flowers; Roses HER VALENTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody's sent a funny little Last Line: Can not breathe the lightest whisper of his burning love for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Roses; Valentine's Day; Eros HERBAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love-lies-bleeding now is found Last Line: Now in any common ground. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Herbs HERE'S TO SWEETHEARTS: THE MORNING-GLORIES OF LIFE, by JOHN E. MCCANN Poem Source Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories HERSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When grace is given us ever to behold Last Line: O child, what news from heaven? Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Sleep; Childhood HIDDEN, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN Poem Text First Line: My garden flowers, I know them all Last Line: I hide within my heart. Subject(s): Bashfulness; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Shyness HIGH DESERT GARDEN, by KATHLEEN NEWROE Poem Source First Line: The iris, purple, white, yellow singular stalks Last Line: Blue as the windhaze outline of mountains on the horizon, huddled together, thundering Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening HIGHLAND, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Peach blossom's red, filled with night rain Last Line: The mountain hermit is yet sleeping Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Flowers; Nature HIS LAST PICTURE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skies have grown troubled and Last Line: To where it wound into the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Flowers; Paintings And Painters; Sky; Youth HIS SOUL FLOWERS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God planted the seed, he nourished the soil Last Line: His immortal spirit is there. Subject(s): Flowers; God; Soul HOLIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About my window in a wreath Last Line: My dreams are drenched with attar of rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Flowers; Holidays; Nature; Roses HOLLY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: O, I am green in winter-time Last Line: For who so well-beloved and merry %as the scarlet holly berry? Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons HOLLYHOCK: FEMALE AMBITION, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glamis thou art, and cawdor; and shalt be Last Line: And yet wouldst wrongly win Subject(s): Flowers HOLLYHOCKS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day as I sit by my window Last Line: The hollyhocks bloom on. Subject(s): Flowers HOLY SATYR, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most holy satyr Last Line: Answering note for note. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Goats HOOSIER SPRING-POETRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ever'thing's a-goin' like she's got-a-goin' now Last Line: Oh, ever'thing's a-goin' like we like to see her go! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring; Trees HORSE CHESTNUT, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: My conkers, they are shiny things Last Line: O laddies, only wait a bit, %I'll shake them down to you! Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Fairies; Flowers; Seasons HOSPITAL FLOWERS, by MRS. VIRGIL BROWNE Poem Text First Line: In all the silent halls and rooms Last Line: Your beauty in my heart abides. Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers; Hospitals HOW LILES CAME WHITE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White though ye be; yet lillies, know Last Line: And made ye white. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies HOW MANY FLOWERS FAIL IN WOOD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It bear to other eyes Variant Title(s): Poem: 404; Poem: 53 Subject(s): Flowers HOW MARIGOLDS CAME YELLOW, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jealous girls these sometimes were Last Line: Yellow, markt for jealousie. Subject(s): Flowers; Jealousy; Marigolds HOW MORNING GLORIES COULD BLOOM AT DUSK, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Left to itself the heart continues, as the tamarind Last Line: But no one said how slow, how willing Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories HOW MORNING GLORIES COULD BLOOM AT DUSK, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Left to itself the heart continues, as the tamarind Last Line: On its way out of the sky. %but no one said how slow, how willing Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories HOW ROSES CAME RED (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses at first were white Last Line: The roses first came red. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses HOW ROSES CAME RED (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said, as cupid danc't among Last Line: Made it for ever after red. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses HOW THE FLOWERS GROW, by THOMAS NICOLL HEPBURN Poem Source First Line: This is how the flowers grow Last Line: I have watched them and I know Alternate Author Name(s): Setoun, Gabriel Subject(s): Flowers HOW THE WALLFLOWER CAME FIRST AND WHY SO CALLED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why this flower is now called so Last Line: Now, the flower of the wall. Subject(s): Flowers 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 HUANG YING;ER: A SANQU IN TEN SONGS, by WU XIAO Poem Source First Line: No other flower is more delicate Last Line: Stand apart like the parallel lines of migrating geese Subject(s): Flowers; Trees HUMAN BEAUTY, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shrine and symbol of god's loveliest creature Last Line: Of that shekinah given to thy trust! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses HUMBLE HERB IS RIVAL TO PROZAC, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An item in science tuesday happens to catch my eye Subject(s): Flowers; Memory HUMBLE HERB IS RIVAL TO PROZAC, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An item in science tuesday happens to catch my eye Last Line: Wreathes the lonely air: %courage. Nothing good will disappear Subject(s): Flowers; Memory HYACINTH: SORROW, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet art thou not inglorious in thy fate Last Line: Alack that so to change thee winter had no power Subject(s): Flowers HYMN 9, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A breath of roses in the wind doth seize on me Last Line: God.—my heart is at ease! Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Roses; Soul; Spring HYMN TO LOVE, by MANUEL MAGALLANES MOURE Poem Source First Line: Love, you are like the light. You enwrap everything Last Line: Circle, go wheeling round and round your crimson flower Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Love HYMN TO THE FLOWERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day-stars! That ope your frownless eyes to twinkle Last Line: Priests, sermons, shrines! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; God; Soul I AM NOT INVITED TO THE REMIXING OF XIV I'M NOT SURE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: It's a naked puzzle silicone is an elastomere Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses I COME FROM THE ROSE GARDEN, MOTHER, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: From the rose garden I come Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Roses I HAVE A MESSAGE UNTO THEE (WRITTEN IN SICKNESS), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green sprout the grasses Last Line: "but ripe eternity." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Love; Seasons; Dead, The I HAVE SMALL, BLUE FLOWERS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I have small, blue flowers, I have small, blue flowers, clearer than Last Line: On the road, my love, everywhere on the road. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love I HIDE MYSELF WITHIN MY FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Almost a loneliness Subject(s): Flowers I KNOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Last night, in the water where barnett newman's Last Line: Untouchable and untouched. %terrifying Subject(s): Flowers; Yugoslavia I KNOW THE WAY OF THE WILD BLUSH ROSE, by WILLARD EMERSON KEYES Poem Text First Line: I know the way of the wild blush rose Last Line: For the love of a maid is for aye and aye! Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Red (color); Roses; Summer; Sun I LOVE IT, DON'T YOU?, by FANNIE HOFFMAN HINER Poem Text First Line: On a stem that is slender and tall there grows Last Line: I love it, don't you? Subject(s): Flowers I LOVE MY LOVE WITH A KISS, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, I love my love in the sunny summer - time Last Line: Is the love I know is mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses I SAW A DELICATE FLOWER HAD GROWN UP 2 FEET HIGH, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From farther than the market wagon Subject(s): Flowers I SAY MY ROSES WHEN I SAY THINGS-PEOPLE-WORLD I MEAN THE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: W I s m r there's no shame in begging Subject(s): Flowers; Roses I SEEK A FORM, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I seek a form that my style cannot discover Last Line: And the neck of the great white swan, that questions me Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses I TEND MY FLOWERS FOR THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Draped for thee! Variant Title(s): Poem: 339; Poem: 36 Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers I WALK WITH BEAUTY, by IYDA REBECCA HIRSH Poem Text First Line: My lovely garden of flowers and grass was once a desolate spot Last Line: How beautiful are the morning glories round my kitchen door! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening I WAS WALKING I WAS PONDERING THE VIGIL OF SPRING UNDER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: The rose of my dibs the march rose which is she existed would have cold-numbed fingers Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring I WAS WITNESS SHE SET OFF HER WHOLE CHARGE ALL HER BLASTS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: She wants to lay waste anew perhaps Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses I WATCH SWIFT PICTURES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch swift pictures flash and fade Last Line: Into to-morrow? Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Love I WILL ASK, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you Last Line: Had awaked from sleep. Subject(s): Eden; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Sleep; Paradise I WISH I WERE A ROSE, A PINK ROSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: For you to pick and press against %your snowy breasts Subject(s): Flowers; Roses I WONDER DID EACH FLOWER KNOW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: As you and I, they learned to grow Subject(s): Flowers I'VE NEVER BEEN TO WINKLE, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Text First Line: I've never been to winkle, but Last Line: London pride. Subject(s): Flowers; London IF THE HOT FLOWERS COME TO THE STREET, by R. MEENAKSHI Poem Source First Line: Red cassia flowers Last Line: Even flies %will swarm to hot flowers Subject(s): Flowers IMITATION, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Some flowers from my boy away Last Line: The likeness may be true, though dim. Subject(s): Flowers; Mother's Day; Paintings & Painters IMMORTAL JOY, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all our roses huddle out of sight Last Line: Shall gently fall upon its sleeping face. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Immortality; Roses; Spring; Joy; Delight IMPLICATIONS FOR MODERN LIFE, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The ham flowers have veins and are rimmed in rind, each petal a little meat sunset. I Last Line: Mud. If you stay, I will find you fresh hay Subject(s): Flowers; Animals IMPROVISATIONS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the lonely halls of the night Last Line: And here's to the goddess show Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Dead, The IN A FIELD OF GOLDENROD, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Around me-gold! Last Line: With joy's rich ecstacy. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Goldenrod; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight IN A FRIEND'S GARDEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years have you been known to me, my friend Last Line: You stand revealed, as earlier you were not. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Friendship; Gardens & Gardening; Soul IN A GARDEN, by PAULINE B. BARRINGTON Poem Text First Line: Along my fence Last Line: Fell in my garden. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Iris (flower); Marigolds 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 A LIBRARY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealth of silence, that is all. The air Last Line: The valor, bloom, and wisdom of a world. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Librarians & Libraries; Life; Silence; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A SPRING GROVE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the white-ray'd anemone is born Last Line: Each and all these,—and more, and more than these! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Leaves; Spring; Thorns; Woods IN A TIME OF FLOWERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! Do you know the spring is here Last Line: To welcome the new-born year? Subject(s): Birth; Flowers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery IN AN AUTUMN GARDEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night the air discloses Last Line: Beneath this haunted moon! Have you forgot? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Roses IN ARMIDA'S GARDEN (FROM JERUSALEM DELIVERED), by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The joyous birds, hid under greenewood shade Last Line: Loving, belov'd, embrasing, be embrast Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening IN DELIGHT AT A BOX OF ROSES SENT FROM LEICESTER TO LONDON, JULY 1918, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tender dawns peep from under night's gray cowl Last Line: Her heart grew light enough to think of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Roses IN LATE SPRING, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: I mark me how to-day the maples wear Last Line: And take thy purple of the tiring hours. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring IN MAKING A HONEYSUCKLE HUG, by R. GERRY FABIAN Poem Source First Line: You need: %one part arms of soft cotton Last Line: Always enhances the flavor Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love IN MEMORY OF BARRY CORNWALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the garden of death, where the singers whose names are deathless Last Line: Though the dead to our dead bid welcome, and we farewell. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Dead, The; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] IN MEMORY OF HENRY A. BRIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet again another, ere his crowning year Last Line: Nor may sorrow find again so sweet a song. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory IN MY NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the bound of mine own enclosure Last Line: Might seem the best to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Beauty; Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses IN MY PERGOLA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the blue-robed, sleeping lake Last Line: With every sun-kissed flower a smile! Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Lakes; Life; Paradise; Pools; Ponds IN NOVEMBER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under my trees of green and gold Last Line: Their memory, after all, is sweet. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; November; Seasons IN PRAISE OF ALLIUM, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one celebrates the allium Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening IN PRAISE OF ALLIUM, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one celebrates the allium Last Line: Gold fur voluptuously %brushing that dreamy mauve Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening IN PRAISE OF FLOWERS, by CHIH HSUAN Poem Source First Line: Blossoms opened and turned the forest red Last Line: Crimson sun, hanging in the wind Subject(s): Flowers; Zen Buddhism IN ROSE TIME, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh this is the joy of the rose Last Line: That it blows, %and goes Subject(s): Flowers; Roses IN SMALL TOWNS, by GEORGES RODENBACH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In small towns, in the languid morn and frail Last Line: As from the dead brow of a perished year. Subject(s): Bells; Flowers; Towns IN THE CONVENT GARDEN, by EDWARD MASLIN HULME Poem Text First Line: Within the convent garden, at the dusk Last Line: Near where the roses on the old wall dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Primroses; Roses IN THE GARDEN, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: I spied beside the garden bed Last Line: "as you smell sweet to me!" Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Sun IN THE GARDEN, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin looked from the path at the lank coil of garden hose Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Spring IN THE GARDEN, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: Dawn brought the flush of a rose colored day Last Line: Star gleam and love in the garden tonight. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love IN THE GARDEN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I wonder if you know Last Line: Before I knew a joy had grown! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Joy; Delight IN THE GARDEN BLOSSOMS THE ROSE, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To see how the nightingale sings %in that garden so fair Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Roses IN THE KINGDOM OF THE ROSE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Across the kingdom of the rose Last Line: In the kingdom of the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Flowers; Love IN THE LANE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my love came home to me Last Line: Take her home for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Love; Summer IN THE NIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cry like a child's cry lost in the rain Last Line: Laughed and kissed in ecstasy! Subject(s): Children; Faces; Flowers; Kisses; Night; Rain; Tears; Childhood; Bedtime IN THE ORCHARD, by HENRIK JOHAN IBSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sunny orchard closes Last Line: Who may revel with the rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Bjarme, Brynjolf Subject(s): Flowers; Orchards; Spring IN THE PASSING SUMMER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Across life's solstice Subject(s): Flowers; Love IN THE SHADOWS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent music of the flowers Last Line: Against my name which was a shade. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Music & Musicians; Reading IN THE VALLEY, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the yellow-haired spirit of spring Last Line: "of the nightfall, and falter, and die." Subject(s): Flowers; Summer IN TUSCANY: SNOW-FLAKES; FOUR SONGS: 1, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: There is one rose upon the bough Last Line: And left no rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses IN TUSCANY: STORNELLI: 2, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: Roses in the shade Last Line: Seeking a thornless rose that will not fade. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses IN VAIN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the peach-tree slid Last Line: Must sing from its own full heart. Subject(s): Flowers INDIAN PIPES, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: These are the flowers for a mad bride Last Line: Leaf, stem and cup, but could not last the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers INDIANS SELL THINGS ALONG OUR STREETS, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: Watercress from a wind-blown mountain fall Last Line: With wind-flowers in my exquisite bouquet. . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Native Americans; Salespersons; Streets; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Selling; Avenues INFLUENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He cannot as he came depart Last Line: Wherever hence he goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers INNOCENCE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White rose must die all in the youth and beauty of the year Last Line: White rose must die all in the youth and beauty of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Innocence; Roses; Dead, The INNOCENT CHILD AND SNOW-WHITE FLOWER!, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Innocence; Children; Flowers; Childhood INOPPORTUNE, by THOMAS H. BRIGGS JR. Poem Text First Line: Too brief her sun of beauty glows Last Line: Not now, not now! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Passion; Roses INSCRIPTION, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: It is not hard to tell of a rose Last Line: When sunlight is so close to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses INSCRIPTION IN A COPY OF 'LIFE'S MORNING', by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By him 'life's morning' lovelit be Last Line: At evenlide it shall be light. Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories INSOMNIA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! To sleep I vainly try Last Line: Surveying realms of lily light. Subject(s): Flowers; Insomnia; Lilies; Paris, France; Sleeplessness INTREPID FLOWERING, by LOIS CANFIL Poem Text First Line: If there are five white blossoms Last Line: Or a cleft, flowering tree. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Trees INTRODUCTION TO A LADY'S ALBUM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wanton boy that sports in may Last Line: That smile at morn, and fade at night. Subject(s): Flowers; Boys INTRUSION, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies sag with rain-drops Last Line: Your silence and the mist of soft words breaking it. ... Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Silence; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness INVOCATION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep of the cooled lids and breath of flowers Last Line: Bring back the purple to my hills of dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Science; Sleep; Tears; Youth; Scientists IRIS, by CHARLES EDWARD DAVIS PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Thou knowest not the parching Last Line: Beneath the rainbow rim! Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Iris (flower); Virginity; Vestals IRIS: MESSAGE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the iris, fair among the fairest Last Line: The world more fair and sweet Subject(s): Flowers IRRADIATIONS: 1, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spattering of the rain upon pale terraces Last Line: Towards the sunset beyond the broken doors of to-day. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Nightmares IT BLOOMED AND DROPT, A SINGLE NOON, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Unconscious was -- great nature's face %passed infinite by me Variant Title(s): Poem: 978; Poem: 84 Subject(s): Flowers IT ISN'T ONLY FLAKES THAT FALL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: It isn't only flakes that fall Subject(s): Snow; Stars; Flowers IT WAS A GENTLE AIR, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a gentle air of lilting spirals Last Line: And cruel and eternal is her laughter of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing And Dancers; Flowers; Melodies; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos IT WAS HERE--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It was here. Right here Last Line: Silently, toward %what isn't Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Pleasure; Spring IVY CROWN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole process is a lie Last Line: And so it is %past all accident Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening JACINTHS AND JESSAMINES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jacinths and jessamines and jonquils sweet Last Line: Should seek a sign at that dread sanctuary? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Passion; Roses JASMINE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be quiet now and nothing say Last Line: Let be, let be. Subject(s): Flowers; Jasmine; Nature JEALOUSY, by WINIFIELD WELLS Poem Text First Line: What? Did my spotted lily startle you? Last Line: I plucked that lily twenty years ago. Subject(s): Flowers; Jealousy JOHN EVERYMAN, by ARCHIBALD HAMILTON RUTLEDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In carrying more than mortals can Last Line: And this with all my heart I pray. Subject(s): Flowers; Humanity; Lilies JOURNEY'S END, by MADELINE YEAGER Poem Text First Line: When I am dead / see that folks omit Last Line: With beauty I shall walk. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Roses; Dead, The; Burials JUBILATE AGNO: GARDNER'S TALENT, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardeners talent Last Line: For the poor man's nosegay is an introduction to a prince. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Virtue; Theology JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: June in the grass! Last Line: Summer is here. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daisies; Flowers; Grass; June; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens JUNE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, cuckoo, come Last Line: To my mind to live in. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Summer Subject(s): Flowers; June; Summer JUNE, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: June of the iris and the rose Last Line: To let her roses through, and persian shrines %of poetry and painting gave the rose Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): Flowers; Roses JUST TO BE SURE I SAID DANUBE YOU SAID YES I SAID A FLOCK, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Hear my name I said well it certainly is you Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses KEATS' GRAVE IN ROME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou liest prone and mute Last Line: Draw our hearts unto thy grave! Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones KEEP OFF THE GRASS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughtless fellows blithely pass, and Last Line: And it will take him nineteen hours to tell just how he views such dubs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Houses; Lawns; Towns KING OLAF'S LILIES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five lilies pulled king olaf Last Line: Upon the chamber floor. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Norway KONUR, by DANIELLE PAPAGEORGIOU Poem Source First Line: Lay near the house Last Line: Near the shelter from the frost, %my house Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Houses KU'U PUA I PAOAKALANI (MY FLOWER AT PAOAKALANI), by LYDIA KAMAKAEHA Poem Source First Line: O ye gentle breeze which wafts to me Last Line: That blooms in the feilds of paoakalani Subject(s): Flowers; Hawaii L'ENVOI, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the wreath the poet sent Last Line: Love for odour, tears for dew. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets LA FLEUR BLEUE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Je veux te voir comme une Last Line: Mon reve de ma fleur bleue Subject(s): Flowers LA FLOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had been reading what you have written of your idleness Last Line: I have imagined of any living thing -- which is now manifest. Subject(s): Flowers; Writing & Writers LAMENT FOR FLODDEN [FIELD], by JEAN ELLIOT (1727-1805) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking Last Line: The flowers of the forest are a' wede away. Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Jane Variant Title(s): The Flowers Of The Forest Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Flowers; Love; Mourning; Bereavement LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM, by HELENE MAGARET Poem Source First Line: Gray-hearted hawks and clouds were harried by Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers LAST LOOKS AT THE LILACS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To what good, in the alleys of the lilacs Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LAST LOOKS AT THE LILACS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To what good, in the alleys of the lilacs Last Line: Patron and imager of the gold don john %who will embrace her before summer comes Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LAST MOWING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a place called far-away meadow Last Line: All shapes and colors of flowers, %I needn't call you by name Variant Title(s): Mowin Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Mowing And Mowers LAST ROSE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With morozova I should bow and obey Last Line: Take it all except this crimson rose- %let me feel the freshness of the gift it's giving Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Flowers; Roses LATE ASTERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Where wonted, luscious sweets of scent Last Line: Are golden treasure-trove from malabar. Subject(s): Asters; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love LATE DANDELIONS, by BEN BELITT Poem Source First Line: The dandelions, wrecked on their stems Last Line: And a scarab aloft on the stem revelation had hallowed Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds LAUREL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the road in the month of june Last Line: Than any mood of roses! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; June; Roads; Roses; Paths; Trails 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 LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 7. MIDSUMMER, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst early sink away the starry twins Last Line: Of glowing june. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer; Sun LAVENDER'S FOR LADIES, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Lavender's for ladies, an' they grows it in the garden Last Line: For when she calls lavender summer must die! Subject(s): Flowers; Lavender; Women LE MAIN DE DIEU, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Leaving rodin's garden, we stole Last Line: Rocked there, believing, in the hand of god Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses LEAVING EARLY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, your room is lousy with flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers LEGEND OF THE CHRISTMAS ROSE, by CORINNE BULLARD JONES Poem Text First Line: That christmas night, long, long ago Last Line: The message of the savior's birth. Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Roses; Nativity, The LEGEND OF THE LILY, by ANNIE WALL Poem Source First Line: Once, when this grand old earth was young Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LENTEN FLOWERS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Primrose, anemone, bluebell, moss Last Line: All must die that enter here! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Trees; Dead, The LEOPARD LILIES, by VIRGINIA WALLACE RUNYON Poem Text First Line: Lest the forest seem too green Last Line: With accents of surprise. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LEST WE FORGET, by LOIS M. EISH Poem Text First Line: When death shall curtain them about Last Line: There's no forgiveness after death. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Forgiveness; Funerals; Dead, The; Clemency; Burials LET THERE BE NEW FLOWERING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At the end Subject(s): Flowers LETHE' IS MY FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I perceive the rose Variant Title(s): Poem: 1730; Poem: 5 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses LIFE AND I, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life and I are lovers, straying Last Line: And plight troth with death. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Flowers; Life; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed LIFE HIDDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses and lilies grow above the place Last Line: Her spirit is at peace where angels kneel. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Peace LIFE'S ROSES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the morning first uncloses Last Line: Of the morn beyond the sky. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses LIFE'S ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you are very old, by the hearth's glare Last Line: And pluck life's roses, oh! To-day, to-day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Love; Praise; Roses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The LIKE UNTO SHARON'S ROSES, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: My darling, your grace Last Line: And raise me from doubting and failing. Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus Subject(s): Flowers; Jews; Jews - Women; Roses; Judaism LILAC, by NINA HEMBLING Poem Text First Line: The fragrance of the lilac covers me Last Line: Incense from a sacred tomb! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILAC BLOOMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Sweet was the kiss of the singing breeze Last Line: Content to dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilacs; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares LILAC BY THE MUSEUM ON ST. WENCESLAS SQUARE, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: I don't love flowers Last Line: And while I was asleep %the lilac burst into flower on st. Wenceslas square Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Flowers; Lilacs; Prague, Czech Republic LILAC DUSK, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What ghost of an old room comes, goes at will Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILAC IS AN ANCIENT SHRUB, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But let not the revelation %by these be detained Variant Title(s): Poem: 1241; Poem: 126 Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILAC SEASON, by GRACE E. WELLS Poem Text First Line: Fragrant lilacs in the spring-time Last Line: Memories cling to lilac season. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILAC TIME, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winter was fierce, my dear Last Line: Will make me form-I-dable. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Old Age; Seasons; Winter LILAC TIME, by JOSEPHINE M. LANE Poem Text First Line: Somewhere near a fence, I think Last Line: I'll plant this one tree more. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILAC: FIRST EMOTIONS OF LOVE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O were my love yon lilac fair Last Line: Till fley'd awa' by phoebus' light. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILACS, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After lilacs come out Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILACS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A welcome of great lilacs at the gate Last Line: Sweet lilacs blooming by a broken gate? Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILACS, by RUTH LAMBERT JONES Poem Text First Line: Lilacs may bloom gallantly Last Line: Of such things make me dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILACS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs / false blue Last Line: Since certainly it is mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; New England LILACS, by GERTRUDE PARTHENIA MCBROWN Poem Source First Line: Come, let's walk where the lilacs grow Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILACS AND JONQUILS, by SARAH SHOOK HUGHLETT Poem Text First Line: Around my doorway jonquils bloomed Last Line: Guard beauty past her doom. Subject(s): Flowers LILACS FOR GINSBERG, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was most interested in what they looked like dead Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILACS FOR GINSBERG, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was most interested in what they looked like dead Last Line: Good and thoughtful became, for a moment, sorrowful Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LILACS IN THE CITY, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the rush and fever of the street Last Line: God's answer to the wisdom of this world. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LILIES, by EDNA DE LYNN Poem Text First Line: White lily, lovely flower! Last Line: One a banner of life! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs LILIES, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lilies, lilies, white lilies and yellow Last Line: Alas! I do not know! Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LILIES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look to the lilies how they grow!' Last Line: Transplanted from this world to heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies, ah, the lilies! Last Line: A lilied beauty bring. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies LILIES AFTER THE RAIN, by CARL W. HISER Poem Text First Line: White was the snow Last Line: After the rain. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LILIES AND ROSES, by IBN AL-QUTIYA Poem Text First Line: Drink you with the lily white Last Line: Fanned to flame by breezes blowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Al-qutiyyah, Aby Bakr Muhammad Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses LILIES FOR ROSALIE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raise your heads, ye virgin lilies Last Line: You shall live with rosalie. Subject(s): Flowers; Leaves; Lilies; Virginity; Vestals LILIES I, by AMY LYNN SIPPLE Poem Source First Line: Labored breaths Last Line: He swore the lilies gave him breath Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Peace; Rest LILIES II, by AMY LYNN SIPPLE Poem Source First Line: The lark rang %its spectacular overture Last Line: In his cherry rocker Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Peace LILIES IN NEW YORK, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A drawing: smudged shadow, deep worked areas of graphite Last Line: Open. And who could hope to draw that? Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LILIES IN THEIR ARMS, by HAZEL S. MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: There will be brides in june-time; they will go Last Line: Remember brides are tender, fragile things. Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Flowers; June; Lilies; Nightmares LILIES OF THE FIELD, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: When I went up to nazareth Last Line: With all their ancient eloquence %the lilies spoke of him! Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Lilies LILIES OF THE VALLEY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bells of a music softly spoken Last Line: Pray, o pray! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LILIES: 4. BLOSSOMS ABOVE A TOMB, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: For beatrice a red rose, and a white Last Line: He sowed, behold the interminable corn! Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones LILY, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON Poem Source First Line: Emblem of beauty and sorrow Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LILY AND A LUTE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I opened the eyes of my soul Last Line: Break her heart, and furl her wings %on those inexpressive strings Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Lutes; Music And Musicians LILY AND ROSE, by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lily of white innocence, and sweet red rose Last Line: Thou needest thorns around thee. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Innocence; Lilies; Roses; Thorns LILY EVENTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A man and a woman looking for lilies Last Line: The top right down to the roots Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies LILY: PURITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And the stately lilies stand Last Line: As its fragrance fills the night Subject(s): Flowers LIMPIDITY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Do not stir up thy life's well, slumbering there! Last Line: Give us the flower, and leave the slime afar! Subject(s): Flowers; Peace; Sleep LINE, by LAURA LUSH Poem Source First Line: They sit in the dark Last Line: Small %exertings Subject(s): Flowers LINES, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Come to the vintage feast! Last Line: While the bead-drop foams on the beaker's brim. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Flowers; Summer; Vines & Vineyards LINES ADDRESSED TO A COUSIN, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: She gave me a flow'ret, - and oh! It was sweet! Last Line: As sweet as the flower, though more lasting and fair! Subject(s): Flowers LINES ADDRESSED TO A WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM, PRESENTED TO THE WRITER, by ANNA PEYRE DINNIES Poem Text First Line: Fair gift of friendship, and her ever bright Last Line: Thou bloom'st the fairest 'mid the frosts of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleford, Anna Peyre Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Winter LINES ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM [ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet flower! That peeping from thy russet stem Last Line: Played deftly on a soft-toned instrument. Variant Title(s): Anemone: Forsaken Subject(s): Flowers 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) LINES TO ACCOMPANY FLOWERS FOR EVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The florist was told, cyclamen or azalea Last Line: Though once we lay and waited for a death. Subject(s): Cities; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Flowers; Hospitals; Women; Women's Rights; Urban Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Feminism LINES TO MY GRANDFATHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear grandpapa, -- to be obedient Last Line: Affectionate granddaughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Grandparents; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LITANIES OF THE ROSE, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite flower / flower of silence Last Line: Flower of silence. Subject(s): Flowers; Hypocrisy; Roses LITTLE DANDELION, by HELEN LOUISE BARRON BOSTWICK Poem Source First Line: Gay little dandelion Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds LITTLE DANDELION, by LULA LOWE WEEDEN Poem Source First Line: The dandelion stares %in the yellow sunlight Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds LITTLE JUNE BOOK TO E.V.M.: 6, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the lilac-bush Last Line: Soon again, the happy sound %will enchant the purple ground Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LITTLE POEMS ABOUT LOVE, by STUART MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seven times the four seasons had passed over the woods and the Last Line: Word suffices for my stammering folly, a word you know well, o beloved! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Nations; Past LITTLE WHITE ROSE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little white rose that I loved, I loved Last Line: Little white rose that I loved! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Flowers; Roses LIVING FLOWERS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm never alone in the garden,' he said. 'I'm never alone with the flowers' Last Line: "in the glad days of old." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Flowers LOCKED OUT; AS TOLD TO A CHILD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we locked up the house at night Last Line: At dusk to watch the moon down early. Subject(s): Flowers; Night; Bedtime LODGED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain to the wind said Last Line: I know how the flowers felt Subject(s): Rain; Flowers LONDON ROSES, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rowses, rowses! Penny a bunch! They tell you Last Line: Roses of london perfumed with a thousand years Subject(s): Flowers; London; Roses LONGING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the sadness of my days Last Line: Reach the comfort of your breast? Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Sanctuaries; Solitude; Loneliness LONGING FOR AN OLD GARDEN, by HSIU MU Poem Source First Line: I remember a garden I used to visit Last Line: As the river flows away into a long spring day Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Zen Buddhism LOOKING AT SOME FLOWERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light is behind the petals, and around them Subject(s): Flowers LOST FLOWER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in a marsh by the water's brink Last Line: Was wisdom such as I wished unheard. Subject(s): Beauty; Fame; Flowers; Reputation LOVE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love will live while the pale stars glow, while the / world shall last Last Line: The soul will seek in the great afar the endless love. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LOVE, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a flower that never changeth hue Last Line: Thou only bloomest everlastingly! Subject(s): Flowers; Love LOVE AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bark's on the water; come down, come down Last Line: In the sea they have found a common grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean LOVE EPHEMERAL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is sweet, and so are flowers Last Line: Love endures but for a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Sea; Ocean LOVE IN EXILE I: 28, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On life's long round by chance I found Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Snow; Flowers LOVE IN JUNE, by MARY GENEVIEVE MANAHAN Poem Text First Line: Love is a rose that blooms Last Line: Ere we too pass away. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Roses; Similes LOVE LETTERS MADE OF FLOWERS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An exquisite invention this Last Line: And literally, breathing bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Flowers; Love Letters LOVE POEM, by ELIJAH FENTON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: See, sylvia, see this new-blown rose Last Line: "come on and crop me whilst you may'?" Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses LOVE'S ATTRIBUTES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ceres rules the fields of grain Last Line: Are consecrate to love. Subject(s): Demeter; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Orchards; Tears; Ceres LOVE'S COMPARINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carnations and lilies are hueless Last Line: Wherever her feet may fare. Subject(s): Carnations; Faces; Flowers; Hair; Laughter; Lilies; Love; Spring LOVE'S FLOWER, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou this rose, sweet even as thou art Last Line: Even as a flower had lasted but a day. Subject(s): Faith; Flowers; Love; Belief; Creed LOVE'S SLEEP, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We'll cover love with roses Last Line: "but sing, ""love, tra-la-lee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Sleep; Eros LULLABY, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Lullaby. For you will summer Last Line: Lullaby, lullaby. Subject(s): Flowers; Love LUSH PETALS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Full of experts Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Flowers; Nature LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lotos flower is troubled Last Line: With love and the sorrows of love. Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Love; Moon LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 23, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O if the tiny flowers Last Line: Who thus hath wounded my heart. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Complaints; Tears LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 24, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why have the roses lost their hue Last Line: O wherefore leavest thou me? Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose and the lily, the dove and the sun Last Line: Is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 33, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is so fair, and the heavens so bright Last Line: The corpse of my mistress dear caressing. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Heaven; World; Paradise LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 48, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From older legends springing Last Line: Dissolves, when morning beams. Subject(s): Flowers; Legends; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 50, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the glimmering summer morning Last Line: Thou mournful and pale-faced man! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Summer LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll dip my spirit discreetly Last Line: In a wondrous moment of bliss. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On song's exulting pinion Last Line: Of blissful visions we'll dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs MADRIGAL, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet rose, whence is this hue Last Line: No, none of those, but cause more high you blissed: %my lady's breast you bore, her lips you kissed Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Flowers; Roses MADRIGAL, by ROBERT LUCAS DE PEARSALL Poem Text First Line: Why do the roses whisper to the wind, and toss their heads so high? Last Line: Surpassing any rose. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Envy; Flowers; Roses MAGIC, by JEANNE FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Today the air quivered suddenly Last Line: With the proper shades of green. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring MAGICAL NATURE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flower - I never fancied, jewel Last Line: Jewel, from each facet, flash your laugh at time! Subject(s): Flowers MAIDEN BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the youthful rivals meet Last Line: "steadfast e'en in death." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Roses MAIDEN MAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden may sat in her bower Last Line: For her nest and young ones in it. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Roses MAKING LOVE, III (2), by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: I planned to have a border of lavender Last Line: All my garden, banks and borders, up %into the gray rocks Subject(s): Colors; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Homosexuality MALMAISON, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun Last Line: Of the marley aqueduct. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses MAN WITH PURPLE BEARD, by ANNELIESE WAGNER Poem Source First Line: It's a lie, he says %that they smile Last Line: Don't pick them, %he says Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening MANUELA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the doorway, manuela, in the sunny april morn Last Line: T is the alazan that gallops, 't is bernardo's self that rides! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Tears MARCH, by IDA PUTNEY RANSOM Poem Text First Line: Must all the beauty Last Line: To beauty and life. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers MARCH 9TH, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Yellow %dawn on the river Last Line: When it reaches the red bridge Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; March (month); Nature; Spring MARCH AND APRIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Stay in, stay in, o flowers, stay in Last Line: Come up, dear seeds, above the ground! Subject(s): April; Children; Flowers; Spring; Childhood MARGARET'S BRIDAL EVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old grey mother she thrummed on her knee Last Line: And the bird sings over the roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Prophecy & Prophets; Roses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARIGOLD, by WILLIAM FORREST Poem Source First Line: The god above, for man's delight Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds MARIGOLD, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She moved through the garden in glory because Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Flowers; Marigolds MARIGOLD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Homely, forgotten flower Last Line: And fades in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds MARIGOLD, by ALLEN UPWARD Poem Source First Line: Even as the seed of the marigold Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds MARIGOLD: GRIEF, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open afresh your round of starry folds Last Line: His mighty voice may come upon the gale Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees MARIGOLDS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The marigolds are nodding Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Nature MARIGOLDS, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you like marigolds? Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds MARIGOLDS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a fork drive nature out Last Line: Love must ever yet return. Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds MARIGOLDS, by BETH HOUSTON Poem Source First Line: On the fourth day the nausea can't keep down Last Line: Into itself like a sprout groping towards to sun Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Marigolds MARITAE SUAE, by WILLIAM PHILPOT Poem Text First Line: Of all the flowers rising now Last Line: If fairer than they were before! Variant Title(s): To His Wife Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MARRIAGE, by PATRIC PEPPER Poem Source First Line: You've poured into me Last Line: On the white table cloth, %vase and water one Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Vases MARSH MARIGOLDS, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the water-meadows Last Line: Against the time of sleep Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Marigolds; Seasons MARTHY ELLEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They's nothin' in the name to Last Line: And die fer marthy ellen! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses MATERIALS OF JUNE, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear vials of cloudy Last Line: With hair-thin tubercles extended Subject(s): Flowers MATINS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers rejoice when night is done Last Line: As a flower adores the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Theology MAUD'S ROSES, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone all day in my cabin Last Line: With your passionless, perfect content! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses MAUREEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, yonder the thrushes is pipin' now Last Line: Maureen—maureen! Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Flowers; Girls; Graves; Heaven; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful queen of all the twelve Last Line: Sings the plaintive whippo'will. Subject(s): Flowers; May (month) MAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet life is dead / not so Last Line: And blossoms where I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; May (month); Dead, The MAY AT THE WINDOW, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Now may is at the window Last Line: And laying its iron hand around your heart %--spring on earth Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; May (month); Spring MAY DAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O haste, o haste to the fields away Last Line: And pour for us the simple lay! Subject(s): Flowers; May (month); Spring MAY FLOWERS ARE OPENING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Spring; Flowers MAY-DAY, by AARON HILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear dawn of summer's rising sway Last Line: And the warmed world is sick with my sweet pains. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; May (month); Summer; Sun MAY-FLOWERS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you catch a breath of sweetness Last Line: But you -- must wait at her feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers MAYPOLE CHORUS, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maypole! The maypole! Last Line: Merrily all the way. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Flowers; Kisses MEADOW-SAFFRON, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The meadow is pretty but poisonous in the fall Last Line: This great field ill-flowered by the fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas MEADOWSWEET, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Meadowsweet, those dizzying flowers Last Line: But in long processions %with lights swirling like clouds Subject(s): Clouds; Flowers MEANING OF FLOWERS, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: She brings me vases full of flowers Last Line: She leaves, and when I wake, %she leaves again Subject(s): Flowers MELE HOONANEA, by CHARLES W. KENN Poem Text First Line: The flowers of hawaii are beautiful and fragrent Last Line: Clothe both birds and flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Hawaii MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF THEOPHILE GAUTIER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, what hast thou to do with me? So saith Last Line: Leave thy sweet light to rise upon the dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872); Love - Loss Of; Dead, The MEMORIES OF HOME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughts of the dear old homestead Last Line: Have the grass and flowers grown. Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Memory MEMORIES OF WHITMAN AND LINCOLN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs shall bloom for walt whitman Last Line: And lilacs for abraham lincoln. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Poetry & Poets; Presidents, United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) MEMORY, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly the sun of summer shone Last Line: Though long ago they passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Flowers; Memory MEMORY'S RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In nature's bright blossoms not always repose Last Line: The music is over, and vanished the wrecks. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Time MENACE OF THE FLOWER, by ALFONSO REYES Poem Source First Line: Flower of drowsiness, %lull me but love me not Last Line: Your hand in mine, %tremble lest you turn %into a woman one day!) Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Flowers; Love; Solitude MERCURY AND CUPID, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sullen humour one day jove Last Line: For heaven's sake, keep your darts! Good night. Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Mercury (mythology); Mythology; Eros; Paradise MERRILL'S GARDEN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a garden where the seeded stems of thin Last Line: And sees what once she saw and music hears of her living sons and dead. Subject(s): Eden; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening MESSAGES, by ALMINA M. MACY Poem Text First Line: When a message on paper is left at the door Last Line: At our doors and our hearts through the fragrance of things. Subject(s): Flowers; Letters MESSENGER NIGHTINGALE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightingale, nightingale, / guest of my bower Last Line: Lilies to roses. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Love; Nightingales; Roses METAMORPHOSES: THE GOLDEN AGE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When faith and honesty with willing hand Last Line: And blest content prolonged the golden reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Flowers; Honesty; World; Belief; Creed MICHAELMAS DAISIES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis more than mid-october, yet along the Last Line: Gives angels for the blossoms that old time has borne away. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Summer MIDWINTER FLOWERS; TO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold you to my lips and heart, fair flowers Last Line: Reveals his presence 'mong earth's common weeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers MIGNONETTE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Today you sent me mignonette Last Line: In every spicy spray of mignonette! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Mignonettes; Roses MISCHIEVOUS MORNING GLORY, by MARY MCNEIL SCOTT FENOLLOSA Poem Source First Line: It was the rosy flush of dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Mccall, Sidney; Scott, Mary Mcneil Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Morning Glories MISHAP, by GERALDINE ZETZEL Poem Source First Line: Pruning dead-heads %off the perennials, I snipped Last Line: Then all I could be was glad, %grateful and glad Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening MISTAKE, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: The mistake was light and easy in my hand Last Line: And in the yard such dandelions grew %that bloomed and closed and opened up and blew Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds MODESTY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There is a sweet, tho' humble flower Last Line: The brightest beauty of her brow. Subject(s): Flowers; Modesty MOON BLOOMS, by IRENE DAKIN Poem Text First Line: Flowered the dusky shadows Last Line: To the moon's call. Subject(s): Flowers; Moon MOON-FLOWERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These white moon-flowers lift to the moon Last Line: The canker of cureless time? Subject(s): Flowers; Moon MOON-FLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer night remembers Last Line: Recalls their ghosts again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers MOONSHINER'S SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night's blind-black, an' I 'low Last Line: I'll be twic't as good-again! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Moon; Night; Roses; Singing & Singers; Bedtime MORBIDEZZA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White girl, your flesh is lilies Last Line: The alluring scent of lilies! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies MORE THAN ENOUGH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first lily of june opens its red mouth. Subject(s): Summer; Spring; Flowers MORGUE: 1. LITTLE ASTER, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: A drowned truck-driver was propped on the slab Last Line: Little aster! Subject(s): Asters; Autopsies; Expressionism - Poets; Flowers; Morgues MORNING AND NIGHT BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A star and a rosebud white Last Line: One lost for aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Stars MORNING GLORIES, by GILBERT ALLEN Poem Source First Line: We are not like them. Their smooth Last Line: We are not like them, we %who need the flowers %we cannot hold Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORIES, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They swing from the garden-trelis Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORIES, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The morning glories start their trip to the sky Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORIES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Would you approve of my wearing your gloves Last Line: Clear for tomatoes next spring, when this plot %comes up all morning glories Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Morning Glories MORNING GLORIES, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Distant as a dream's flight Last Line: Kisses over me! Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORIES, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue and dark blue Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORIES, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue and dark blue Last Line: Weeds without value humorous %beautiful weeds Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORIES, by GIL OTT Poem Source Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORIES, by ROKUNYO Poem Source First Line: By the well side, morning glories I transplanted Last Line: Now I beget water from the house next door Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORIES, by VALERIE TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Blue %as a lustre pitcher Last Line: The heart-shaped leaves of the morning glories are %shaking in the wind Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORY, by AGNES H. HEMSATH Poem Text First Line: What magic clarion bids you unfold Last Line: Lulls to sleep your rainbow glory? Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORY, by JOAN MCMILLAN Poem Source First Line: It is as if all sorrows vanish into the earth Last Line: One luminous white star in its shining throat Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING GLORY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth's awake, 'neath the laughing skies Last Line: What in the world is better than these? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING-GLORIES AND CHILDREN, by MILT MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: We talk of this hard soil Last Line: Leaving only a few frail roots near our own, %barely touching Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Morning Glories MORNING-GLORY, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Source First Line: Was it worth while to paint so fair Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories MOTETS: 16, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower that repeats Subject(s): Flowers MOTHER WANTS ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me what time it is, wise little flower! Last Line: Why did I ever ask questions of you? Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Mothers; Childhood MOUNTAIN ASH, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: They thought me, once, a magic tree Last Line: The finest banquet of your lives %is here prepared for you Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons 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 MRS. ELIZ. WHEELER, UNDER THE NAME OF THE LOST SHEPHERDESS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the myrtles [mirtles] as I walkt Last Line: Like those short sweets ere knit together. Subject(s): Flowers MULCH, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man with a leaf in his head Last Line: And he is mindful of his garden, %which prepares to die Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening MUSIC FOR LILIES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Could be my breast's slip cover Last Line: Aftermath %of a quick empire Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies MUSICAL GARDEN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Can't give you up, can't stop Last Line: Can't give it up! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love MY CHILDREN ARE, by MARJORIE RUSSO Poem Source Last Line: I look at them and see... %bits of immortality Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Immortality; Nature MY DARLINGS (2), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My rose, so red and round Last Line: Of heavenly flowers. Subject(s): Flowers MY DESIRE, by MARY JESSIE PEARCE Poem Text First Line: I'd like to have a little house Last Line: And hope 'twould guide you there. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Light; Roses MY DREAM GIRL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flower in the mist of the moorland, spectral, / shadowy Last Line: The flower in the mist of the moorland, lonesome and shadowy. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Imagination; Love; Solitude; Youth; Death - Babies; Fancy; Loneliness MY FIFTY-SEVENTH SUMMER, by SONDRA ZEIDENSTEIN Poem Source Last Line: Faint vapor of its last exhaling Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening MY FLOWER, by IRA TITUS Poem Text First Line: One night in may in a clear sky Last Line: Whence comes the fragrance of my spirit! Subject(s): Flowers MY FLOWERS, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: Sweet flowers, the year with speedy pomp adorn Last Line: Will shine, perchance to-morrow, on my grave. Subject(s): Flowers MY GARDEN, by MARY M. RANDLEMAN Poem Text First Line: My garden is entrancing Last Line: Their magic over all. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilacs MY GARDEN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet garden, wreathed in fruits and flowers Last Line: To-morrow's sun may never shine. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roman Empire MY GARDEN GIRL, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: My garden girl with sunburned nose Last Line: My garden girl. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Relationships MY LADY OF THE ROSES, by GRACE JOHNSON LOMON Poem Text First Line: She dwells within a mansion fair Last Line: My lady of the roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses MY LADY OF THE ROSES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At venice, while the twilight hour Last Line: Venice, june 1891 Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Love - Beginnings; Time MY MOTHER ONCE TOLD ME, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But my hands, clinging, %remain %clinging Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers; Sleep MY NEIGBOR'S ROSES, by A. L. GRUBER Poem Text First Line: The roses red upon my neighbor's vine Last Line: Is grown for you, upon your neighbor's vine. Subject(s): Flowers; Neighbors; Roses MY NEIGHBOR'S REPLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "your neighbor, sir, whose roses you admire" Last Line: And he who shares the joy in what he's grown / spreads joy and doubles all his own Subject(s): Flowers;neighbors;pleasure;roses MY PRETTY ROSE TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flower was offer'd to me Last Line: And her thorns were my only delight. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Mythology; Roses MY ROSE, by ADELE HART BROWN Poem Text First Line: In my garden fair a rose Last Line: My rose, -- on the lips of a lover. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses MY ROSE, by ELIZABETH WHITE Poem Text First Line: Yesterday, I picked you from Last Line: Lie sleeping in repose. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses 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 MY SWEET WOODRUFF, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more the flowers of spring are seen Last Line: But he will know. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring MY WINDOW GARDEN, by IVA H. DREW Poem Text First Line: I have a little garden box Last Line: And always birds to sing. Subject(s): Flowers; Future; Gardens & Gardening; Windows MY WINTER ROSE, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you come when the trees were bare? Last Line: Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter NAPA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: As bountiful as love Last Line: And the men overflowed with poppies %and magueys Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Flowers; Human Rights - Argentina; Love; Passion NARCISSUS, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Brown bulbs were buried deep Last Line: Winter's gone; here is spring- %easter again!' Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons NARCISSUS: EGOTISM, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What first inspired a bard of old to sing Last Line: Of young narcissus, and sad echo's bale Subject(s): Flowers NATURAL QUESTION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What rich joke does Last Line: As if to tickle it forth? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening NATURAL QUESTION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What rich joke does Last Line: As if to tickle it forth? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening NEW AND OLD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New blossoms from the selfsame earth Last Line: The selfsame heaven supplies. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers NEW APRIL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God guard you, and greet you well Last Line: That shut me close in my retreat. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Spring NEW ENGLAND ASTERS, by PATRICIA HOOPER Poem Source First Line: Let's be practical Last Line: All the way from massachusetts Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening NEW HAMPSHIRE LILACS, by SYLVIA TRYON Poem Text First Line: The hills are sweet with lilacs now Last Line: As the evening bell-notes cease. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; New Hampshire NEW SPRING: 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warm and balmy spring-night's air Last Line: Of the lily I ought to beware me. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies NEW SPRING: 13, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes of spring, so azure Last Line: Known to the whole wood are. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring NEW SPRING: 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slender water-lily Last Line: Lying before her feet. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies NEW SPRING: 17, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What drives thee on, in the spring's clear night? Last Line: With fierce love raving so madly? Subject(s): Flowers; Love NEW SPRING: 20, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose is fragrant -- yet if she divineth Last Line: Would still be useful, we may well suppose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Truth NEW SPRING: 22, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wander 'mid the flowers Last Line: In the garden, in presence of all! Subject(s): Flowers; Love NEW SPRING: 26, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the pinks are breathing fragrance Last Line: And the nightingales are singing. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses; Spring NEW SPRING: 30, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my remembrance blossom Last Line: The withered roses show thee. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses NEW SPRING: 31, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Linden blossoms drunk with moonlight Last Line: Might o'er stream and plain be gliding. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring 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 NEW SPRING: 35, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Care not, if my love I'm telling Last Line: But believes them poetry. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love NEW SPRING: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which flower I love, I cannot discover Last Line: So sad and oppress'd. Subject(s): Flowers NEW SPRING: 41, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like an old man's face confounded Last Line: Fade away from men's minds quickly. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Transience; Impermanence NEW SPRING: 6, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Bees %visit flowers Last Line: At the wonder of all living things Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Nature; Spring NEW YEAR'S EVE IN ANGKOR WAT, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: As if envious of the gods Last Line: Was he the enemy? Is he, too, %another god? Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Holidays; New Year NIGHT-BLOWING FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children of night! Unfolding meekly, slowly Last Line: In silent hours to fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers NIGHT-LILAC, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilac alone - / standing so quiet, so dim, outside Last Line: Dim lilac, and shine! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs NIGHTINGALE, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rose looks out in the valley Last Line: Sings his song of woe Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Love - Loss Of NINETY FRAGRANT DAYS OF SPRING, by PAO-CHUEH TSU-HSIN Poem Source Last Line: Where do the petals fall? Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Zen Buddhism NO LONGER EVEN A ROSE IN YOUR HEAD, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: You are writing away Subject(s): Flowers; Roses NO QUESTION, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: Seeing at last how each thing here beneath Last Line: Why birds must fly, seeing the flight of birds. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Flowers; Dead, The NO THORN WITHOUT A ROSE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no rose without a thorn Last Line: "no thorn without a rose!" Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses NOBODY KNOWS THIS LITTLE ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For such as thee to die! Variant Title(s): Poem: 11; Poem: 3 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses NONPAREIL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let others from the town retire Last Line: Though I were sure 'twould end in pain. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Flowers; Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight NONSENSE RHYMES: 19, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Josie gave to me a rose Last Line: For I must go with isabel Subject(s): Flowers;nonsense NORA, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nora knew it, nora knows Last Line: And lovely, and a rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses NORTH AMERICAN SEQUENCE: THE ROSE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are those to whom place is unimportant Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses NORTH AMERICAN SEQUENCE: THE ROSE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are those to whom place is unimportant Last Line: Gathering to itself sound and silence - %mine and the sea-wind's Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses NOTES FROM A CHILD OF PARADISE (COMPLETE), by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of everything a voice Last Line: Witness now what will not be written nor ever said Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons NOTHING MYSELF AND THAT I LOVED THEM, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Hammers %roses which Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Roses NUNS PAINTING WATER-LILIES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pods are part of the growth of life within life Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies NUNS PAINTING WATER-LILIES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pods are part of the growth of life within life Last Line: Or accessible only in the most furtive fiction Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies O QUADRILATERAL ROSE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: May be so bold Subject(s): Flowers; Roses O ROSE OF JUNE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: O rose of june! In humble guise Last Line: O rose of june! Subject(s): Flowers; June; Roses O SILVER ROSE, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark hour turns so slowly and so sweet Last Line: For death shall prove more kind. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses OBERMAIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Obermais! Obermais! / charming bit of paradise Last Line: Thou hast won my heart and soul! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Joy; Delight; Paradise OBITUARY, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We made our love a pretty thing Last Line: So quietly it turned and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The OBSERVE THE ROSE-BUD ERE IT BLOWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Let time possess it when it dies Subject(s): Beauty;flowers;roses;time OCEAN BEACH, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Evading headlong breakers, ocean beach Last Line: With roses trailing down its tilted lanes. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 28. THE ONE FLOWER, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before an inn hearth's tale-begetting flame Last Line: With purest bud that e'er to blossom came. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Trees OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 29, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As those great petals burst asunder there Last Line: "and never another bloom that tree may bear." Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature ODE TO THE EARLIEST SNOWDROP, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Chaste flower, I fear to do thee wrong! Last Line: A rival host should mar. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Life; Winter ODE TO WORK IN SPRINGTIME, by THOMAS RUSSELL YBARRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, would that working I might shun Last Line: Immoral!) Subject(s): Flowers; Spring ODES: 1, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA Poem Source First Line: The roses love in the gardens of adonis Last Line: The little while we last Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Roses ODI PROFANUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O braid thy tresses helen-wise Last Line: Make sweet the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Hair; Muses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Sea; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus OF A WINNOWER OF WHEAT TO THE WINDS, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, light troop, I bring Last Line: About the heat of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Flowers OF ALL THE LILIES OF THE FIELD, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source Last Line: That it was him I chose and held %of all the lilies of the field Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies OF THE FLOWER OF LOVE AND THE WANDERING HORSES, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest lived a giant flower that risked killing Last Line: The wandering horses Subject(s): Surrealism; Horses; Flowers; Trees; Love OF THREE CHILDREN CHOOSING A CHAPLET OF VERSE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You and I and burd so blithe Last Line: And by the flowers be crown'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Flowers; Youth 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 OFF CLICK-ROSE'S KEY CAN ANYTHING BE ATROCIOUSLY NOTHING, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: And power then in vision I see them giving in and I've an instant of terror Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses OFF-SHORE ROSE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Subject(s): Flowers; Roses OFFERING TO A DEAD FRIEND, by CHARLES VAN LERBERGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring these flowers, these pure white flow'rs to you in your night Last Line: They are silence too. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Friendship; Dead, The OIL IN THE LLIAD IS RHODOENTE EMBODYING ROSE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Subject(s): Flowers; Roses OLD HOME, by MABEL GOULD DEMERS Poem Text First Line: The purple lilacs haunt me Last Line: Upon the polished floor. Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Lilacs; Orchards OLD JOHN CLEVENGER ON BUCKEYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old john clevenger lets on Last Line: "kin subsist whare buckeyes is!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Ohio; War OLD SCENTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nosegay matilda twined for me Last Line: I weep at the thought with speechless sadness. Subject(s): Flowers; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances OLD THINGS, by THOMAS T. BLEWETT Poem Text First Line: I love to smell old books Last Line: Fragments of dreams. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OLD-FASHIONED ROSES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They aint' no style about 'em Last Line: In the roses of the rich. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses OLD-FASHIONED VERMONT FLOWERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like vermont's old-fashioned flowers Last Line: To bloom around our woodhouse door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers OLD-MAN'S-BEARD, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: This is where the little elves Last Line: Say good-night, and go to sleep Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons ON A BLUE VASE, by JAY HOPLER Poem Source First Line: I have a blue vase but no flowers Last Line: I have no flowers. My neighbor has them all Subject(s): Flowers; Vases ON A DAMASK ROSE STICKING UPON A LADY'S BREAST, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let pride grow big, my rose, and let the clear Last Line: Would be transform'd into a rose as thou. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses 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 GIFT OF FLOWERS, by GUILLAUME VICTOR EMILE AUGIER Poem Text First Line: Dost ask me of these blossoms bright Last Line: And my despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Augier, Emile Subject(s): Flowers ON A GREEN HOUSE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, from earth's daedal heights and dingles lowly Last Line: Than cheops' pile, or artemisia's mound. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Flowers; Greenhouses ON A MOUNTAIN TOP, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this high altar, fringed with ferns Last Line: His glory fills the air. Subject(s): Angels; Eden; Evil; Eyes; Flowers; Mountains; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON A PRESSED FLOWER IN MY CPOY OF KEATS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As keats' old honeyed volume of romance Last Line: The while my heart weeps for this dear flower's sake. Subject(s): Flowers; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ON A ROSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How short, sweet flower, have all thy beauties been Last Line: So virtue lives, when every grace is fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ON A ROSE PRESSED IN A BOOK, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I win the summer back again Last Line: At touch of this dead rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Summer 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 A YOUNG LADY'S GOING TO OWN IN THE SPRING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night unhappy celadon Last Line: Not satisfied with private sway at home. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Night; Spring; Youth; Bedtime ON AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As fairy like, thy bounding feet Last Line: This rose shall bloom eternally! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses ON DIGGING OUT OLD LILACS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in a clump of dead athletes Last Line: Flinging saved dishwater onto %these new slips Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening ON FLOWERS. ON NEGATIVE EVOLUTION, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the front-end loader ran over my wife's montauk daisies Last Line: Have been more careful with my wife's god-damned daisies Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening ON FLOWERS. ON NEGATIVE EVOLUTION, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the front-end loader ran over my wife's montauk daisies Last Line: Have been more careful with my wife's god-damned daisies Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening ON GAZING OVER A FIELD OF DAISIES, by KENNETH DEAROLF Poem Text First Line: Here I stand on the edge of the spring Last Line: Still hold me in my heart. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers ON GELLI-FLOWERS BEGOTTEN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was't that fell but now Last Line: I'm sure they'l fashion roses. Subject(s): Flowers ON HAVING MISIDENTIFIED A WILD FLOWER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A thrush, because I'd been wrong Subject(s): Birds; Flowers ON KILEY'S RUN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roving breezes come and go / on kiley's run Last Line: On kiley's run. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares ON LAMB'S SPECIMENS OF DRAMATIC POETS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the flowers of all the fields on earth Last Line: Took subtler sweetness from the lips of lamb. Subject(s): Flowers; Light; Poetry & Poets ON LEXINGTON AVENUE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: A tapestry hung on stone Last Line: As all the clocks restart Subject(s): Flowers; Retail Trade ON PICKING FLOWERS, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once you go picking flowers, you've got to climb Last Line: Full opened or just budding, pluck 'em all Subject(s): Flowers ON READING A FRAGMENT CALLED THE FLOWER OF THE FOREST, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Sing on, sweetest songster the woodland can boast Last Line: By sorrow's sigh farm'd, and bedew'd by a tear. Subject(s): Flowers ON READING THE 'RUBAIYAT' OF OMAR KHAYYAM IN A KENTISH ROSE GARDEN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a dial in the leafy close Last Line: Those ruby-tinted hieroglyphs of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Flowers; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Roses ON RECEIVING A MONTHLY ROSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paestum! Thy roses long ago Last Line: "henceforth shall be my flower." Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ON SEEING A VERY EARLY PRIMROSE, by THOMAS KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Why come ye sae early, my bonnie wee flow'r? Last Line: Take another short nap and lie still. Subject(s): Flowers; Primroses ON SOME BUTTERCUPS, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: A little way below her chin Last Line: To find a voice and tell! Subject(s): Admiration; Buttercups; Flowers 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 ON THE BALCONY, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both watched the uncertain swallows sudden farewell Last Line: The tumbled, odorous bed, wide-opening in the gloom. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Romance; Roses ON THE BORDERS AS WELL AS IN THE MIDDLE LE BEAU ITS CRIMES, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Crime of the beautiful Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses ON THE LAKE, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The waters with their phosphorescence blue Last Line: With petals of pure light from burning flowers Subject(s): Flowers; Lakes; Nature; Roses ON THE PALATINE HILL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the palace of the caesars blow Last Line: Long time agone, such a great while ago! Subject(s): Flowers; Passion; Trees ON THE PONT AU CHANGE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: They are selling flowers tonight the pont au change along. The air Last Line: Fly, my arms with roses piled, her pardon to implore. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Stars ONE BY ONE THE PETALS HAVE NOT FALLEN OR BY HEAVY CLUMPS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Rose whose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Thorns ONE HUNDRED ROSES, by TANG YAPING Poem Source First Line: One hundred spring mornings weep for me Last Line: I accept the comfort of strength Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ONE OF TWAIN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of twain, twin-born with flowers that waken Last Line: Night and light? Subject(s): Flowers; Light; Love; Roundels ONE PERFECT ROSE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single flow'r he sent me, since we met Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ONE PERFECT ROSE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single flow'r he sent me, since we met Last Line: Ah no, it's always just my luck to get %one perfect rose Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ONE ROSE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot bear the beauty of one rose Last Line: I cannot bear the beauty of one rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses ONLY A WORD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a flower that grew awhile Last Line: And sweeter far for you. Subject(s): Flowers; Love OPEN LIKE A ROSE, by ANN FISHER-WIRTH Poem Text First Line: Open like a rose, he told me Last Line: 2000). Subject(s): Bigamy; Birth; Love - Erotic; Flowers; Roses; Child Birth; Midwifery OPENING, by JON SWAN Poem Source First Line: Said the seed to the flower Last Line: That will break you to be %free of your dark modesty Subject(s): Flowers ORCHID: A BELLE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met a lady in the meads Last Line: And sure in language strange she said, %I love thee true Subject(s): Flowers ORCHIDS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Freaks of bright crystal, airy beauties fair Last Line: Without one touch of contact with the ground Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Orchids 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 ORIGIN OF FLOWERING PLANTS, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: Some say the first flower, complex, waxy Last Line: Unnoticed, shy, but radiant with the future Subject(s): Flowers; History OTHER SIDE OF THE ARGUMENT, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But she prefers the morning glory Last Line: How it needs only a foothold %to fill half the day with blue Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories OUR LADY OF THE LILACS, by FRANCES SMITH Poem Text First Line: In the tender, pulsing night-time Last Line: Sweet as a lilac's dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs OUR WEE WHITE ROSE, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in our marriage garden Last Line: White rose of all the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Childhood OUR WILD ROSE, by EDNA HALL-NEAL Poem Text First Line: Under wide skies, under gray showers Last Line: But she has thorns to defend her pride. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses OUT OF ANY DEARTH, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Transmuting rocks to flowers Last Line: I will sieve my songs. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Stones; World; Granite; Rocks OUT OF NOTHING, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the centre of the rose Last Line: Love, the child of the abyss. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses OUT OF THE MOON, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merely the moonlight Last Line: It falls on the ferns under my may-tree bough. Subject(s): England; Flowers; Moon; English OUT OF WATER, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new embroidery of flowers, canary color, Subject(s): Flowers OVER THE ROSE-LEAVES, UNDER THE ROSE, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you say you loved me then Last Line: Or make it bloom again? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives OVERNIGHT, A ROSE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text First Line: That overnight a rose could come Last Line: It took my life to grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time; Worship OX-EYED DAISIES, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bonny things that ne'er have toiled not Last Line: And breathings even of the infinite. Subject(s): Beauty; Daisies; Flowers; Sun PAGE IS TO SKID ON, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Be oral without fail Subject(s): Flowers; Roses PALE ROSE, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: You laughed uncertainly Last Line: Knowing you wanted red roses again. Subject(s): Affliction; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations PALM FLOWERS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a land of the sun's blessing Last Line: But forget you quite till then. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PALM-TREE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: When comes the hour I long for Last Line: Returning to the tree Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Silence PALMISTRY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me a geranium leaf Last Line: When I am in the valley sleeping. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PANNYRE OF THE GOLDEN HEELS, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the loud room falls silence like a trance Last Line: Pannyre now flashes -- naked and divine. Subject(s): Flowers; Silence PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 7. TO SAY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To say `now' and yet again Last Line: With its redolent folds. Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Roses; Time; Paradise PARSIFAL, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose of the garden's roses, what pale wind Last Line: Sweet joy being shameful in the pure fool's sight. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses PASQUE FLOWER RETURNS, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the prairies the earth is awaking Last Line: Pasque flower returns! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers PASQUE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM LYLE FLANAGAN Poem Text First Line: Lilac twilight blown Last Line: Are not more beautiful! Subject(s): Flowers PASSING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With thoughts too lovely to be true Last Line: The gorse in flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Flowers; Love PASSION, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The raflesia Subject(s): Passion; Flowers; Daughters PASSION FLOWER, by CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO Poem Source First Line: And the flower weeps Subject(s): Flowers PASSION IN THE METRO, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Antinous young lord of priapus lost Last Line: Antinous has slowly %eaten %a rose Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses PASTICHE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the days are all gone over Last Line: Even to his own strong child -- despair. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers PATCH AV GREEN AN' FIELD AV CORN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, a field av goold corn jist ferenst a wee green Last Line: For wee childer's all ris up an' reapin' the day! Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Play; Roses; Death - Babies PEACE, by ARMENA BOWMAN Poem Text First Line: No sound - but the rush of dark waters Last Line: Eternal symbol of an invisible god. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Peace; Roses PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 42. AL-JAMIL, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too much ye tremble, too much fear to feel Last Line: Behold the roses on that tree. Subject(s): Flowers; God; Islam; Roses; Worship PEONY IS THE QUEEN OF FLOWERS, by KIM SUJANG Poem Source Last Line: While the red peach, the jade peach and %the three-colored peach are young dandies Subject(s): Flowers PEONY: SHAME AND BASHFULNESS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lear, I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad Last Line: Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging jove. %mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure Subject(s): Flowers PEONY; FOR SUZANNE BRAUN LEVINE, by ROBIN MORGAN Poem Source First Line: What appears to be %this frozen explosion of petals Last Line: Of this green stubborn bud %some call a world Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening PERENNIALS, by PATRICIA HOOPER Poem Source First Line: This morning I pulled up Last Line: Happiness and a repose %of mind ... Subject(s): Flowers PERGOLA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell you about roses climbing Last Line: Roses you've read too much about Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Spain PERIWINKLE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: In shady shrubby places Last Line: No great renown have I. Yet who %does not love periwinkle's blue? Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Periwinkle; Seasons PETALS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shattered rose has fallen to the floor Last Line: Each is a newer and a lovelier rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses PHILOSOPHIES, by MADELEINE AARON Poem Text First Line: The cedar seeks escape from the blue shade Last Line: And, fading, dies a regal fatalist. Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Flowers; Nature; Roses PIANO BURIAL, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Text First Line: Empty the garden where I played your singing Last Line: Mountains-sides of aspen. Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Rot; Decadence PICKING WILD FLOWERS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I have been out picking Last Line: Know their true names Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Romance PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 12. EPILOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on the plain shoot up the wheatstalks Last Line: Than pipes or than fiddles. Subject(s): Flowers PIETY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh liquid moon that silvers the rims Last Line: I come! I come! Subject(s): Charm; Flowers; Graves; Love; Moon; Piety; Roses; Virtue; Tombs; Tombstones PILLAR WORK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the flowers, the lily blooms supreme Last Line: Fell on their hearts, and heavenly release. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares PINE TREE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: A tall, tall tree is the pine tree Last Line: Throwing cones for the squirrels to nibble- %I wish I were there to see! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons PINK ALMOND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So delicate, so airy Last Line: Her roses on the grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Almond Trees; Flowers; Roses; Trees PINK DAISIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: A couple av childer played out in a field Last Line: Ay, an' trudged the lone boreen!— Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness PINK, SMALL, AND PUNCTUAL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nature forswears / antiquity Subject(s): Flowers PIPPA AND HER FLOWERS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Her flowers? The martagon flame-lily glowing Last Line: Shames into silence death's despairful creed. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Girls; Happiness; Heart's-ease (flower); Lilies; Dead, The; Joy; Delight PLAINT, by LUCIEN PATE Poem Text First Line: I have told my pain to the wood Last Line: My heart so a-fevered with woe? Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grief; Nature; Pain; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PLANE TREE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: You will not find him in the wood Last Line: To deck the tree until the spring %comes back again! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons PLANT FLOWERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Plant flowers, that thou may'st perfume have - and to Subject(s): Flowers PLANTING A GARDEN, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: All day the birds have been twittering advice from their perches Last Line: When it seems you've forgotten that you asked I tell you, for your anne-marie-ness, irreducible, for Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening PLANTING FLOWERS ON THE EASTERN EMBANKMENT, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took money and bought flowering trees Last Line: Sits till evening and will not move from the place! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Flowers; Gardens & Gardening PLATONIC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew it the first of the summer Last Line: For the moonlit talks -- and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Roses; Summer PLAY OF LOVERS, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Pears soft to the thumb, wine Last Line: Everyone has seen it Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses PLAYMATES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: That is your little playmate, jane Last Line: Would any child not die!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness PLEASURE MIXED WITH PAIN, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Venomous thorns that are so sharp and keen Last Line: Since every woe is joined with some wealth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Epigram: 7 Subject(s): Flowers; Health POEM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose fades %and is renewed again Last Line: To suffer no diminution %of its splendor Subject(s): Flowers; Roses POETIC EPIGRAMS: 8. KINDRED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly and flower Last Line: By earth in the same hour. Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs POINSETTIA, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN Poem Source First Line: It lights the house with his presence Last Line: At the center, pollen-gold knots, %almost invisible Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl Subject(s): Flowers; Relationships POLYANTHUS AND GRAPE HYACINTH, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: How do you do, grape hyacinth? Last Line: That's why I'm here, with my bells in spires %of blue Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons POND-LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In early morning, when the air Last Line: The brooding haze, the trembling flush. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies POOR WITHERED ROSE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor withered rose, she gave it to me Last Line: Thy perfume lingers in my soul. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses POPPIES, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: I have a field of soft, unruly poppies Last Line: To do almost anything Subject(s): Flowers; Poppies POPPIES IN OCTOBER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening POPPIES IN OCTOBER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts Last Line: That these late mouths should cry open %in a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening POPPY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: The green wheat's a-growing Last Line: But still, red and splended, %I am there Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons POSSESSION, by ELKANAH EAST TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To me are given many things Last Line: "the calm and peace of eventide." Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Nature; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain) POTLUCK, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: You came one day when all I had a-stew Last Line: Was that dark dish from my rose-garland plate? Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Love; Roses; Sorrow; Sadness POTPOURRI, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see my wife struggling in the dirt Subject(s): Flowers PRACTICE OF ETHICS: ROSES, by JOAN PARK Poem Source First Line: The proper way to prepare a flower Last Line: And let the color drip Subject(s): Flowers; Roses 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 PRELUDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a grove of ilex Last Line: This is the gift of the flower of dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Lilies; Love; Rome, Italy; Nightmares PREMATURE FLOWER, by WALTER JOHN COATES Poem Text First Line: See that goldenrod! Isn't it handsome? Last Line: "when corn is in the crib and potatoes in the cellar!" Subject(s): Flowers; Goldenrod; Seasons PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 4, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My silver chest a sparke of love up locks Last Line: And sharons rose shall be my rose, and crown. Subject(s): Flowers; Puritans In Literature; Roses PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 5, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My blessed lord, art thou a lilly flower? Last Line: Thou lilly of the vallys, being mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Puritans In Literature PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 132, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon my lord, I humbly beg the same Last Line: My breath shall lilly tunes sweet sing to thee. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Puritans In Literature PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 132, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon, my lord, I humbly beg the same Last Line: My breath shall lilly tunes sweet sing to thee Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Puritans In Literature PRESENTED TO LIU CHING-WEN, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lotus withered, no more umbrellas to the rain Last Line: And now too: citrons yellow, tangerines still green Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Zen Buddhism PRESENTING TO A LADY A WHITE ROSE AND A RED, ON 10TH OF JUNE, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this pale rose offend your sight / it in your bosom wear Last Line: "and 'tis like heaven to bless." Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America PRIMROSE, by MICHAEL BORICH Poem Source First Line: First rose of spring you are not Last Line: Vivid against the earth, easy in the wind %while a season lasts Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She no longer expects gardens Last Line: She prophesies such gardens Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening PRODIGAL SON, BRIEFLY SUSPECTED IN THE SHOOTING OF ANDY WARHOL..., by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One day inlate summer 1982, twenty years after the flower shop first Last Line: Be driving out to the country, and only the wounded will remember where %they were today Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Memory PROM - ROSES, by JAMES P. SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Only a bunch of roses fair Last Line: For the message the roses bring. Subject(s): Flowers; Proms; Roses PROMISE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I grew a rose within a garden fair Last Line: It blossomed -- but, alas! A worm was at its heart! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses PROPOSITION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Begin with this Last Line: Of flowers. Am I dreaming? Subject(s): Flowers; Peace PSYCHE AND THE GOD, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is with me? Last Line: And at the centre, love revealed. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Religion; Theology PUDDLES, by RUTH ECKMAN Poem Text First Line: Little puddles have a way Last Line: That have no stars to show? Subject(s): Flowers PULP FICTION, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want more? You want some more of this shit? Last Line: The knife, you understand, is real. The knife is mine Subject(s): Flowers; Nature PULP FICTION, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want more? You want some more of this shit? Last Line: The knife, you understand, is real. The knife is mine Subject(s): Flowers; Nature PURPLE BLOSSOMS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A babe sleeps under the lilac-tree Last Line: "the whirling leaf swift eddies round, / and rests upon a new-made mound" Subject(s): Flowers;growth PURPLE SANDWORT, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a little roadside flower Variant Title(s): Red Sandwor Subject(s): Flowers QUATRAIN: THE ROSE, by LILLA CABOT PERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One deep red rose I dropped into his grave Last Line: And must fare on without it to the end. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The QUEEN OF ROSES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little love hath made Last Line: For she shall never have it back again. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses QUEEN ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jessamine shows like a star Last Line: The rose, the perfect rose be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Roses QUEST, by FLORENCE M. BENNELL Poem Text First Line: In beauty's quest I may go far Last Line: Along the path, near my own gate. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses QUESTION AND ANSWER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That which is being the only answer Last Line: And with the sun rises perpetual day. Subject(s): Fire; Flowers QUESTION FOR THE STUDENT, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No rose deludes itself by thinking Last Line: Aren't those flowers lucky? Subject(s): Flowers; Roses QUINCE TO LILAC, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lilac, how enchanting Last Line: Remarkable discernment. %your ever loving quince Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Quince Trees RATCLIFF, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dream-god brought me to a landscape fair Last Line: And through sheer terror I awoke from sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Love; Tears; Nightmares REACHING THE AUDIENCE, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We will start with a single blue dwarf iris Last Line: We will be able to recognize something on these pages %and remember Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening RECOMPENSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For every man that dies, some little one Last Line: Some deed unfolds fair-hearted, like the flowers? Subject(s): Evil; Flowers RECONNAISSANCE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twere bliss to see one lark Last Line: As though one flower were not enough, thank god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; God; Larks; Praise; Spring; Skylarks RED AND WHITE ROSES, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read in these roses the sad story Last Line: And then they both shall grow together. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses RED AND WHITE ROSES, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses the lover gives to his love Last Line: Which is the sweeter? When shall we know? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses RED AZALEAS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: A wife I have never held in my arms Last Line: And know why I am happy. Subject(s): Azaleas; Flowers; Single Parents; Widows & Widowers; Parents Without Partners RED FLOWER, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: A horticulturist of sorts, farmer, then gardener Last Line: Forming a bud, then a flower, about to burst Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Greenhouses; Horticulture RED FLOWERS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Red flowers grow in the sky, there's a shadow in the garden Last Line: How beautifully I breathe. %I feel I am bieng ironed, it doesn't burn at all Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Roses RED GERANIUM AND GODLY MIGNONETTE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine that any mind ever thought a red geranium! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Mignonettes RED GERANIUM AND GODLY MIGNONETTE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine that any mind ever thought a red geranium! Last Line: Oh, for some other beauty, some other beauty %that blossomed at last, red geranium, and mignonette Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Mignonettes RED GERANIUMS, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK Poem Text First Line: Life did not bring me silken gowns Last Line: And red geraniums aflame upon my window sill. Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums RED GERANIUMS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She says she believes in reincarnation Last Line: The sudden emotion the confusion then nothing? Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas RED GERANIUMS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She says she believes in reincarnation Last Line: Is this what causes these unexpected over-sweepings: %the sudden emotion, the confusion, then nothin Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums; Reincarnation RED GERANIUMS, by MARCIA LEE MASTERS Poem Source First Line: Dear father, was I nothing but a swirl of leaves Last Line: Because she thristed so for love %and hungered so for life %and never found them-- %you planted red Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums RED ROSES, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: I roam in a garden vestal-fair Last Line: To the red, red roses beyond the gate! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Wellesley College REFLECTION, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Geraniums Last Line: With such unsubtle gaiety at their belts. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Geraniums REFLECTION (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like stars that in the waves below Last Line: Are shadows of a fairer light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Shadows REFLECTION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where closing water lilies are Last Line: How water-lilies grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies RELICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This flower that smells of honey and the sea Last Line: Who knows but I what memories too take flight? Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Smells; Nightmares; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances RELIEF COMING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are blustering and rough, the frost Last Line: Just ahead that's bound to knock out sorrow. Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight RELIGION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To learn the secret of the silent grass Last Line: The life that lasts, tho' I and all men die. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Love; Religion; Secrets; World; Theology REMEMBERED SCENES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the wood my holy angel-child Last Line: Love weaves my web of life, both warp and woof. Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Forests; Life; Woods REMINISCENCE ON THE NATURE AND CAUSE OF FLOWERS, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: Flowers followed women Last Line: Never the japonica Subject(s): Flowers REMORSE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Time must have covered it over Last Line: Wound into %the body Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses RENDEZVOUS, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves put a frivolous stencil Last Line: Floating out. ... Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Vines And Vineyards RENUNCIATION, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air is full of the peal of bells Last Line: Of the lord's bow now breaks into flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Marriage; Courtship; Flowers; Loss; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RENUNCIATION, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose of the desert of my heart Last Line: To where no happy roses are! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Flowers; Roses RENUNCIATION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lifted rood thy days have hewn Last Line: For this, o love, for this! Subject(s): Divorce; Flowers; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RESURGAT, by HERBERT H. LONGFELLOW Poem Text First Line: All the morning I have been peering at a flower Last Line: I will give everything to the wind. Subject(s): Flowers RESURRECTION, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: A rose by your bedside you would never know Last Line: It would be enough to make you laugh Subject(s): Death; Flowers RESURRECTION, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When one had gone away Last Line: Dear god, I saw her smile! Subject(s): Flowers RETURN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early is the evening Last Line: And a little laughing girl with faith in her eyes Subject(s): Flowers REVERSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes it is surely true Last Line: Wish that the holidays came sooner! Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Flowers; Geraniums; Graves; Love; Sin; Tombs; Tombstones RHODOCLEA'S GARLAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This garland of fair flowers, by me Last Line: Rhodoclea! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love RIP VAN WINKLE'S LILAC, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, - no! - my brain is addled yet Last Line: Boon nature finds one -- heaven be blest! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs RIVALS.' A SHADOW OF SAINT DOROTHEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Golden haired, lily white Last Line: And gather palm branches Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven RIVULET, by PEDRO DE CASTRO Y ANAYA Poem Source First Line: Stay, rivulet, nor haste to leave Last Line: Than thus, a youthful danube, perish Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Youth ROADSIDE FLOWERS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are the roadside flowers Subject(s): Flowers ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad Last Line: Dearer than eden-groves with rivers four. Subject(s): Christianity; Cities; Decay; Flowers; God; Home; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers ROBERT BURNS WILSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What intuition named thee? Last Line: Than any joy of all the glory there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Happiness; Soul; Joy; Delight ROCOCO, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By studying my lady's eyes Last Line: "she'll weary of you by and by." Variant Title(s): Carpe Diem Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers ROMANCE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: A wild rose grew by the ocean's edge Last Line: Lay only a withered weed. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: THE OLD ROSE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She for whom my heart once beat Last Line: Or to shave will be thy duty. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses RONDEAU, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A ruined rose - I hold it so Last Line: "my lady proud will lie below,- / a ruined rose" Subject(s): Flowers;roses RONDEAU OF HYS LADYE, by JEAN FROISSART Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soe blithe am I when I a rose doe smell Last Line: Soe full of bliss when I my ladye see. Alternate Author Name(s): Froissart, Jehan Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Love; Roses; Joy; Delight RONDEL, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilacs are in bloom Last Line: The lilacs are in bloom. Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Summer; Time; Rot; Decadence; Sorrow; Sadness RONSARD'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O caves, and you, o springs Last Line: Of whoso hears. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise ROOTS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evenings seem endless, now Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening ROOTS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evenings seem endless, now Last Line: And all the gardens %to dig again? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening ROSA MUNDI, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose of the world hangs high on a thorny / tree Last Line: For oh! Thou art sweet. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Thorns ROSA MYSTICA, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose is a mystery' -- where is it found? Last Line: Draw me by charity, mother of mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Roses; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ROSA MYSTICA, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This rose so exquisite Last Line: There is the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; God; Praise; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ROSALIE, by JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS Poem Text First Line: Over the fields where the soft wind blows Last Line: Bearing her daisy sheaf. Subject(s): Flirtation; Flowers; Love ROSAMOND, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fragrant bright june morning, rosamond, the queen of girls Last Line: Set them in her vase a week -- then throw them with her flowers away? Subject(s): Flowers; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Songs ROSAMOND'S ROSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rosamond gave me a rose Last Line: Rose-red and alive in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSARY BEADS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adore the roses; nor delay Last Line: Of ever-creeping land. Subject(s): Flowers; Rosary; Roses ROSE, by THOMAS HOWELL Poem Source First Line: Whenas the mildest month Last Line: Of all the pleasant flowers in june %the red rose hath no peer Variant Title(s): The Red Ros Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose has a life, they say Last Line: Her smiles and blushes are our soul's mistresses. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Romance; Roses ROSE, by MEHDI AKHAVAN SALES Poem Source First Line: Color the same, same hue Last Line: Your hand holds nothing but some colored scraps of paper Subject(s): Flowers; Muslims; Roses ROSE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If jove would give the leafy flowers Last Line: It blushes a diviner ray Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical ROSE, by ELIZABETH SPIRES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We waited for the roses to bloom Last Line: As, over and over, you brought me spring flowers Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a glove shop Last Line: Throw me a rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE (1), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First the warmth, variability Last Line: The gold hawk's-eye speaks once %coldly its perfection Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stillness of the rose Last Line: Stillness was an eternity %long since begun Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE (3), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose is obsolete Last Line: The fragility of the flower %unbruised %penetrates space Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE / WHITENESS WITH SONG OF NIGHTINGALE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Rose very balance of the real in its state of production Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses ROSE COTTAGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose cottage, because it had Last Line: At the window, english faces %with red cheeks, countering the thorns Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE D'AMOUR, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh haste while roses bloom below Last Line: Pluck, pluck the rose of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE HIP, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Cool dewy morning Last Line: Gay as a gipsy %all autumn long, %here on the hedge-top %this is my song Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons ROSE IS A ROSE, by DOROTHY DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: Unraveling a rose for a clue Last Line: The secret of its cinnabar skin %won't work-it can only unclothe, %it can never unriddle the rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE IS NOT A CABBAGE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And still, in spite of all they do, I love the rose of england Last Line: No matter of what sort the cabbage be Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Cabbage; Flowers; Roses ROSE NAPE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE O YELLOW CAB AND WHALESQUE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: O large rose very o she flux Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE OF MAY, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! There's the lily, marble pale Last Line: Left, like a noble deed, to grace %the memory of an ancient race Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE OF ROSES, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the treasures of the spring Last Line: Heart, of hearts the nearest. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE OF THE WEST, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Rose of him who cannot wait Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses ROSE PERENNIAL, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worn gray slab yet lies before Last Line: Clutched in vain as it reaches higher. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE PETALS, by BLANCHE WHALEN CRITZMAN Poem Text First Line: Rose petals, rose petals, everywhere lying Last Line: A tear. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses ROSE PETALS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I looked within the petals of a rose Last Line: Within the petals of a rose. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses ROSE POGONIAS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A saturated meadow Last Line: While so confused with flowers. Subject(s): Flowers ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O rose the red and white lily Last Line: Gin she this sight did see! Subject(s): Flowers;lilies;marriage;roses; Weddings;husbands;wives ROSE TO THE DEAD, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pluck'd a rose for thee, sweet friend Last Line: And keep it safe for me? Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE WHITE IN THE PURITY OF IGNITION HERE YOUR ASHES IN, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Beaten beating heart rose black line [after a letter from to tsvetaieva to pasternak, 22 may 1926] Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses ROSE WINDOW, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The preacher took from solomon's song Last Line: While danced the motes in dusty pew. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE'S METALLURGY WORKER'S LOT OF THE ROSE CONTINUE TO, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: The strength not to wait Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE, O PURE CONTRADICTION', by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK Poem Source First Line: You tell me nothing is wasted Last Line: Your sleep unfolds %under so many eyelids Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSE, OH PURE CONTRADICTION, JOY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of being no-one's sleep under so many lids Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Roses ROSE, THOU ARE SICK, by FRANCIS L. RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: The invisible worm-- %invisible? Last Line: One-eyed black-eyed susans, one-eyed %in the garden of the blind Subject(s): Flowers ROSE, YOUR WARM VOICE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSEBUD, by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rosebud firm and round and rare Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSEBUDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She plucked a rosebud by the wall Last Line: By him who rode to foreign lands Subject(s): Flowers;roses ROSEEN-DHU, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little wild rose of my heart Last Line: Ròseen-dhu! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Longing; Love; Roses; Separation; Isolation ROSEHIPS, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This false fruit, tear-shaped and smooth as a glass eye, cracks like pottery Last Line: Of a myopic child-the boy who rolls these pods, like marbles, across the %ground, and watches the sq Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Roses; Thorns ROSELEAF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little while the rose Last Line: A little while the rose. Subject(s): Flowers;roses ROSES, by AL-GHASSANI Poem Text First Line: Roses, roses fresh and fair Last Line: In the middle of their cup. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES, by HELEN AUGUR Poem Text First Line: Roses bloomed on every bush Last Line: Ah, what a fool was I! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Wellesley College ROSES, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: God made roses. / who made you, Last Line: Worth a bunch of roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, wind of the spring-time, oh, free wind of may Last Line: He gave me the roses of death. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red roses floating in a crystal bowl Last Line: Red roses floating in a crystal bowl. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That there should never be air Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That there should never be air Last Line: To the left corner where we read %'the marvelous' and escape Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send you here a wreath of blossoms blown Last Line: Be therefore kind, my love, whilst thou art fair. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As one sees on sees on the branches in the month of may the rose Last Line: That in death as in life thy body may be roses Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES, by MAXINE SCATES Poem Source First Line: It was reading of the roots Last Line: Made them a hybrid of our knowing Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES, by JENNIFER SNYDER Poem Source First Line: I can barely imagine my mother Last Line: The promiscuous roses %of her disappointment Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers; Roses ROSES (1), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses that briefly live Last Line: Knows was a rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES (2), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harold, on a summer day Last Line: I can never hear again. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES AND RUE, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember we used to meet Last Line: God's heaven and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES ARE A GIFT OF PRICE, by KISA'I OF MERV Poem Source Last Line: What you buy instead of those %that is costlier than the rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love-children of the summer and the sun Last Line: Your fragrant soul escapes -- can memory bind? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROSES BACKLESS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Roses tormented by the storm and slangy purple hymn to joy Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses ROSES BLUSHING RED AND WHITE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For death Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers ROSES FROM THE SEA, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Would gabriel garcia %have recognized their scent Last Line: With the sun's old, %fleeting gold Subject(s): Flowers ROSES OF MY ROSE TREE, by FABIO FIALLO Poem Source First Line: Within the courtyard of my home Last Line: A myriad roses white Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses ROSES ONLY, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do not seem to realise that beauty is a liability rather than Last Line: Your thorns are the best part of you. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses ROSES RETURN DREAMY FROM THEIR COURSE IN PRODUCTOLOGY, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Union is unanimous they're grumbling it's a provocation don't answer Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses ROSIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: There's a rosie show in derry Last Line: Thon day—thon day! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; London; Love; Memory; Roses ROSITIES ROSE IT IS ROSINESS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Rose of nesses %giantry Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses ROUND, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light splashed this morning Last Line: As it does each day Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening ROYAL IS THE ROSE, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Royal is the rose Last Line: White-withered in your clasp. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses ROYALTY, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In purple and fine linen Last Line: Frederic lawrence knowles. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Flowers; Houses; Lilacs; Linen RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 1, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! For morning in the bowl of night Last Line: And lo! The hunter of the east has caught %the sultan's turret in a noose Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Flowers; Roses RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 26, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, come with old khayyam, and leave the wise %to talk Last Line: The flower that once has blow for ever dies Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Poetry And Poets RUBBER ANGEL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is not Last Line: I dare you Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Forests; Owls; Philosophy & Philosophers; Woods RUNAWAY, by DANIEL WHITEHEAD HICKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where did the little boy go, you say Last Line: Oh, do not weep for any lad %lost among the flowers! Subject(s): Flowers RUSSIAN ROULETTE, by VICTOR LODATO Poem Source First Line: What a rose! - the one that shot from his head Last Line: Wide enough to hold the dark moons %that will hang over them, forever Subject(s): Flowers; Roses RUTH, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby girl not two years old Last Line: "safe in the arms of love divine." Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Life Change Events; Love; Mothers; Infants SAIL-BOAT (BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI), by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY Poem Text First Line: All day your snowy sails, rose marigold Last Line: With music of a magic ocean shell. Subject(s): Anchors; Flowers; Marigolds; Sea; Ocean SAILOR, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: That bird flying for the first time Last Line: Who mends torn horizons Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses SAINT DOROTHEA, MARTYR, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: Account it most strange if I should fear Last Line: You will run, you will run to welcome death! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The; World SAINT MARY OF THE FLOWERS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meet me at saint mary of the flowers Last Line: Meet me at saint mary of the flowers'. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Love; Saints; Graveyards; Dead, The SANTA CHRISTINA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saints are god's flowers, fragrant souls Last Line: With which she blossoms in god's sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Flowers; God; Saints SAPPHIC ODE, by ESTEBAN MANUEL DE VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou gracious dweller of the woodland green Last Line: Shatter thy pinions! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring SAPPHO: 3, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight's inner flame grows blue and deep Last Line: I sing for one who falls asleep to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Sunset; Twilight SCENTS, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet white clover Last Line: Bowed by rain. Subject(s): Flowers; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SCILLA, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Scilla, scilla, tell me true Last Line: When you see it, think of me! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SEA IS AWASH WITH ROSES, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon the land Subject(s): Flowers; Pleasure; Roses; Transience SEA LAVENDER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lavender, sea lavender! Last Line: That my hands still hold her hands. Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Marital; Wedding Song; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Epithalamium SEA LILY, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reed / slashed and torn Last Line: To cover you with froth. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Lilies SEA ROSE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose, harsh rose Last Line: Hardened in a leaf? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Roses 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 SEASONS (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spring time when the leaves are young Last Line: And starved the snow he shines upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer SEASONS (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crocuses and snow drops wither Last Line: Till spring and sunlight dawn again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Seasons SEED AND FLOWER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The seed-time of this lovely life Last Line: A thousand years and more! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Flowers; Love SEED CATALOG, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: You have circled white birch Last Line: You're the man lost in the leaves %of his huge brain-shaped tree Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening SEED-TIME, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers of the willow-herb are wool Last Line: Know you the breast of the springing to-be. Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons; Fall SEED-TIME, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When trumpet-flowers begin to blow Last Line: And plant the winged seed. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Seeds SEEKING REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother said: the child is changed Last Line: And think and weep alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Rest; Seasons; Suffering; Misery SEMELE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of light divine! Last Line: Then, clay, in fire depart! Then, soul, in heaven survive! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The SENT TO A LADY WITH FLOWERS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take the last flowers your natal day Last Line: That smile would win me from the skies. Subject(s): Birthdays; Flowers SENT WITH A FLOWER POT, BEGGING A SLIP OF GERANIUM, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sent my empty pot again Last Line: And trouble you no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums SERRANILLA, by INIGO LOPEZ DE MENDOZA Poem Source First Line: From calatrava as I took my way Last Line: Her heart is free, no thought of love has bound her %here with the herds around her Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Spring SEVEN ROSES, by FRANK X. GASPAR Poem Source First Line: Three red, one white, one purple, one yellow, one pink Last Line: How they hate the way they are softly, softly dying for me Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SEVEN TIMES ONE [- CHILDHOOD. EXULTATION], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no dew left on the daisies and clover Last Line: I am seven times one to-day. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Children; Death; Flowers; Life; Childhood; Dead, The SEVEN YEARS OLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven white roses on one tree Last Line: Seven years since, of seven times seven. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Childhood SHAKE THE SUPERFLUX!, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets SHE RENTS LINEN / THE ROSE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: With words blank as sabres flat as sabres for the poem not shiny Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses SHE WILL GATHER ROSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This little girl / only born to Last Line: Only born to / gather wild roses Subject(s): Flowers;girls;roses SHINING STARS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shine, ye stars of heaven Last Line: Bids the end arise! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Stars; Time; Nightmares SIC TRANSIT, by KATHARINE WILLIS Poem Text First Line: As fall the sere leaves from the tree Last Line: Seeds will find roots and flowers grow! Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Flowers; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares SICILIAN ARETHUSA, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sicilian arethusa! Thou, whose arms Last Line: Of time will only make more durable? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sicily; Dead, The SILVER AND LAVENDER, by WILLIAM SHATTUCK Poem Text First Line: The asters now put on the lavender Last Line: Silver and lavender clothes earth and sky. Subject(s): Asters; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Grief; Lavender; Silver; Sorrow; Sadness SIMPLE THINGS, by PAUL JEAN TOULET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite, let me not think on you Last Line: Roses of death. Subject(s): Details; Flowers; Love; Roses; Spring; Things SINCE MAY ALL AFLOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since may all aflower calls us forth tothe fields Last Line: Thy brow in its beauty, thy heart in its love. Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Nature; Joy; Delight SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 52, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are Last Line: Out of a sky of green. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Daisies Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 69, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lily has an air Last Line: When she blows. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Rose (3) Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 81, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have but one rose in the world Last Line: There'll be but thorns for stooping. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SINGING ROSE, by DULCE MARIA BORRERO Poem Source First Line: There is an enchanted rose in a solitary garden; in its Last Line: How could you bloom, merciful rose, in the garden of %grief? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Grief; Roses SINGING WITH SPRING, by JEAN WHITE Poem Text First Line: Today I matched my heart with spring Last Line: "let us match our hearts together!" Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Spring; Joy; Delight SIX EASILY MEMORIZED OFFSHAVINGS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: They're away on leave Last Line: You will understand my state Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses SLOE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: When blackthorn blossoms leap to sight Last Line: Too sharp these plums, %until the touch %of winter comes! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SMALL TENDRILS OF A MORNING GLORY TO THE WELL ROPES CLING, by CHIYO NI Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Kaga No Chiyo; Chiyo-ni; Chiyojo Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories SMALL WHITE FLOWER THAT CONTAINS THE SUN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I shuffle through the leaves of the worn out woods Last Line: And the squirming frog pond thrums Subject(s): Flowers SNOWDROP, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Deep sleeps the winter, cold, wet, and grey Last Line: The fair maids of february stand in the snow! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SO HAS A DAISY VANISHED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are ye with god? Variant Title(s): Poem: 19; Poem: 2 Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers SO MANY FLOWERS...', by JOSE-FLORE TAPPY Poem Source Last Line: Without trembling %your evil pupils Subject(s): Flowers SOLID LIKE THE CRADLE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Song of the blessed sharp breaks in the breath and opening the oyster there's a moment of hush Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Flowers; Roses SOLITUDE AND THE LILY, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bend above the moving stream Last Line: And, if illusion, feel it true. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Solitude; Loneliness SOLSTICE: THE CHILDREN'S WARD, by BOB WICKLESS Poem Source First Line: The secret care the world takes Last Line: To trust all your flowers to love Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Survival SONG, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bride, she wears a white, white rose - the plucking it was mine Last Line: The fallen leaves of other crowns -- rose, laurel, violet! Subject(s): Flowers SONG, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go talk to her, sweet flower Last Line: Keep you, sweet flower, alive. Subject(s): Love; Flowers SONG, by THOMAS DELONEY Poem Text First Line: The primrose in the green forest Last Line: Under the greenwood tree. Subject(s): Flowers SONG, by MABEL B. FREDERICK Poem Text First Line: Sing ho for a garden Last Line: Is a mirror for you. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lovely april, rich and bright Last Line: O lovely april rich and bright. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Lilacs; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are scented with woods after rain Last Line: And the raindrop shed from the daisy's eye. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but sweet music wakes Last Line: My own beloved! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Rain; Smells; Wind; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances SONG, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has summer come without the rose Last Line: Here, where she loves me not. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Unrequited SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of egypt, veil thine eyes! Last Line: My struggling manhood drown! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Summer; Youth SONG, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, lovely rose Last Line: That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Variant Title(s): The Rose Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Flowers; Love; Modesty; Roses; Transience; Impermanence 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 (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh roses for the flush of youth Last Line: Before in the old time. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Flowers; Youth SONG (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We buried her among the flower Last Line: Fair, with the selfsame smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Funerals; Grief; Tears; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (4), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower unfolds its dawning cup Last Line: Wake us in each other's arms? Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Night; Bedtime SONG (9), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daisy now is out upon the green Last Line: Will never speak to me in vain, tho' soundly rapt in peace. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring SONG BEFORE DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mother, in a minute's span Last Line: My true love to my dying day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG DISCORDANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to say it, and I will Last Line: I want to, and I do! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers SONG FOR A VIOLA D'AMORE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady of my choice is bright Last Line: And what is lovelier than that is. Subject(s): Flowers SONG FOR THE CENTENARY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter in spirit elect and consecrate Last Line: Who by thine own words only bid thee hail, and live. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Life; Love; Memory; Roses; Dead, The SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: April goes out as may comes in Last Line: And the gentle adorers %their missions of love begin Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Spring SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There in the flower garden Last Line: There in the rosary %they'll kill me Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Mothers SONG FROM THE MOUNTAIN CHANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The voice that beautifies the land Last Line: The voice that beautifies the land Subject(s): Beauty;flowers;nature SONG FROM THE TRAFFIC, by MARGARET BELLE HOUSTON Poem Text First Line: The black haw is in flower again Last Line: One a-galloping a thousand miles away!) Alternate Author Name(s): Probert, W. H, Mrs.; Houston, Margaret Bell Subject(s): Flowers; Texas SONG OF RENEWAL: 3, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Following his look, I saw the vale shaking Last Line: Faint marks renewed where love burned through, how many centuries ago! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SONG OF ROSES SONG OF WELL GAITED TROTTERS NO GALLOPING, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Song of them ensemble in a very gentle trot Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SONG OF THE ALMOND BLOSSOM FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Joy! The winter's nearly gone! Last Line: But the almond is the first! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG OF THE CHERRY TREE FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Cherries, a treat for the blackbirds Last Line: Is the fortunate cherry-tree one! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG OF THE DESERT LARK, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, love, in vain Last Line: And so die. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Spring SONG OF THE LILAC FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: White may is flowering Last Line: Or sweeter to smell Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG OF THE MORNING-GLORIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We wedded each a star Last Line: Lamenting, die. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories SONG OF THE PEAR BLOSSOM FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Sing, sing, sing, you blackbirds! Last Line: Then sit, sit, sit, little hen! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG OF THE SPRINGTIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O season supposed of all free flowers Last Line: Are fiddlededee! Subject(s): Flowers;seasons;singing & Singers;spring SONG OF THE WILD CHERRY BLOSSOM FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: In april when the woodland ways Last Line: You lovely, lovely thing to see! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG OF THE WILLOW FAIRY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: By the peaceful stream or the shady pool Last Line: And dip my toes in the stream below Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons SONG TO FANNY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy bloom is soft, thine eyes are bright Last Line: United in the skies for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers SONG. THESE PRAIRIES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These prairies glow with flowers Last Line: Will sorrow for my sake. Subject(s): Flowers SONG: 13, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the hedge of roses Last Line: Dear one, to follow you. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SONG: 2, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: I found in the arms of a valley Last Line: How little I brought to you. Subject(s): Flowers 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 SONG: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rose and cypress and tinsel gay Last Line: And whisper with sadness and loving sighs. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs SONG: THE DEATH OF THE ROSE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Life, dear life, thy summer days have flown Last Line: And death had made undying with a kiss. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Nature; Roses; Dead, The SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE: PRELUDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the green bud and the red Last Line: The sacred spaces of the sea. Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Soul; Youth; Ocean SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 5, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: And shall I then complain if thou, the sea-wind meeting Last Line: With equal kindred deep impassioned eyes. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Passion; Youth SONGS OF ROSES: 1. ROSE FANTASIA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose, that flushing hues didst borrow Last Line: Once again. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SONGS OF ROSES: 2. THE MISSIVE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I that tumble at your feet am a rose Last Line: And your life is but a rose's. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SONGS OF ROSES: 3. THE ROSE OF SORROW, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The royal rose our sovereign bard bewitches Last Line: For sorrow's rose is white. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SONGS OF ROSES: 4. THE FALLEN ROSE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, like an overweighted shaken rose Last Line: Broke them away. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 103, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white water-lilies, they sleep on the lake Last Line: Thy spirit comes back to its flowerlike home. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 37, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In god's blue garden the flowers are cold Last Line: To the last carnation dusk and shy. Subject(s): Flowers; Love – Nature Of SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 50, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was the west wind over the garden Last Line: You were the blossom that drew me down. Subject(s): Flowers; Bees SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: THE ESCAPE, by ELIZABETH DEWING KAUP Poem Text First Line: I have run through the great gates of the garden into Last Line: Remained in the shining garden alone in the spring night. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol; Dewing, E. B. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring SONGS WITH PRELUDES: WEDLOCK, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was streaming in. I woke, and said Last Line: And fill the hollow place for ever. Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Sun; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 21, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haste, my nannette, my lovely maid Last Line: Though the wolf prowl, and the sheep stray. Variant Title(s): Nannette Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Sheep; Wolves SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 28, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst others proclaim Last Line: And there is no living without her. Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love; Nymphs; Roses; Eros SONGS: 1. LEND ME THE LYRE AGAIN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That once she lent it. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise SONGS: 10. WHEN CUPID FELL FROM GOLDEN HELL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Of roses, roses red. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Eros SONGS: 4. SAY NOT I NEVER TOLD MY LOVE FOR THEE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: My love for thee, my sweet and infinite love. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses SONGS: 8. I'VE HEARD, I'VE HEARD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I have had love and the sun's light. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Carnations; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses SONNET, by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lady's presence makes the roses red Last Line: Falls from mine eyes, which she dissolves in showers Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers 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, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now with the black grape's blood the barrels flow Last Line: Above the drowsy avenues and drear. Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, all the dust has turned to flower Last Line: That eros fondles with a breath like fire. Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could come again to that dear place Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses SONNET, by CAROLINE PARKER SMITH Poem Text First Line: I have no knack with growing garden flowers Last Line: Fruit, like the flowers, in lips that shall be sealed. Subject(s): Flowers SONNET, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I gathered blushing roses kissed by june Last Line: The pure child fragrance in thy soul complete. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses; Time SONNET ON READING THE POEM UPON THE MOUNTAIN DAISY, BY BURNS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While soon the 'gardens' flaunting flowers' decay' Last Line: His heaven-taught numbers fate herself will guard. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Daisies; Flowers; Poetry & Poets 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 SONNET: 17, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No rose that in a garden ever grew Last Line: Or perished young, or stayed at home in greece. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses SONNET: 18, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Last Line: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Variant Title(s): "shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"";to His Love; Subject(s): Admiration; Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Flowers; Immortality; Love; Roses; Summer; Transience; Impermanence SONNET: 54, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, how much doth beauty beauteous seem Last Line: When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses SONNET: IN ANNIVERSATIO MORTIS. 2, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These flowers shall be my offering, living flowers Subject(s): Flowers; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement SONNET: THE LAST OF THE ROSES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A royal rose! A rose how darkly red! Last Line: His actium came with winter's vanguard -- frost! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SONNET: YELLOW ROSES, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sweet sun-tinted roses, faint and fair Last Line: I may not lose one sun-reflecting leaf. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 44, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers Last Line: And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine. Subject(s): Love; Flowers SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 2. THE FLOWER ASLEEP, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: I stood within the old wood, - and all the past Last Line: It had done nought but bloom, and fade and blow. Subject(s): Flowers SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 17. ANONYMOUS PLAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye too, dim watchfires of some darkling hour Last Line: Between two child-faced masks of merrier days. Subject(s): Flowers; Plays & Playwrights SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 20. THE MANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haughton, whose mirth gave woman all her will Last Line: Praise be with all, and place among our band. Subject(s): Flowers SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10B, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fancy the good fairies dressed in white Last Line: Yet letting the white peep beyond the rim. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Autumn; Fairies; Flowers; Life; Seasons; Fall; Elves SORROW AND FLOWERS; A MEMORIAL WREATH TO C. F., by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A garland for a grave! Fair flowers that bloom Last Line: Than flash in royal diadems. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 4. MATER LILIORUM, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the remembering hours of night Last Line: Mother of lilies, pity me! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Soul SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 10, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With a flower I compared you Last Line: While all fall in love with you Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 13, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A rose of a hundred petals Last Line: How soon it has blossomed out! Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 28, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Many pinkflowers and sunflowers Last Line: Has my lover in his garden Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 32, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When she goes walking Last Line: Roses and lilies she goes pouring Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 36, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My love Last Line: When she wakes up in the morning Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 38, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Your door, they call a door Last Line: And you, early little rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 44, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My beloved is prettier Last Line: Which open out in the morning Subject(s): Beauty; Carnations; Flowers SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 60, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the garden of my queen Last Line: Came another gardener Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Roses SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 74, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rose, if I did not take thee Last Line: I had for my bed a rose Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses SPANISH ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses, roses / yellow and red Last Line: A kiss for a kiss, and a sigh for a sigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): Roses Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Youth; Dead, The SPECIFICATION, by THELMA PHLEGAR Poem Text First Line: I'll never wed a woman Last Line: Her hands when the rain comes down. Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Rain; Wombats; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPEEDWELL: FEMALE FEDELITY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, it is morn Last Line: Faithful to god and thee. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Faith; Flowers; Prayer; Belief; Creed SPHINX-MOTH AND DADDY LONGLEGS, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening when dark is settling down Last Line: Man, the seeker, seeks himself Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Forests; Hummingbirds; Insects; Moths SPINNING SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sisters plucked green leaves at morn Last Line: For the beauty of your eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Flowers; Folk Songs - Indian; Music & Musicians; Spring; Fairs; Pageants SPIRITS OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three creatures of the summer are to me Last Line: Three summer creatures good to know and love. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Soul; Summer SPRAY OF FLOWERS (NOT GIVING IN TO OLD AGE), by GUAN HAN-QING Poem Source First Line: I've plucked every bud hanging over the wall Last Line: I'll walk the lane of misty flowers %no more Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Flowers; Old Age SPRING, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See the spring herself discloses Last Line: Freshly bourgeons every bough. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring SPRING, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Perchance this breeze has roamed through southern / bowers Last Line: The sunshine and—the spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Spring SPRING, by KATHERINE NEAL LOVE Poem Text First Line: Whether it was a profile / of a jagged mountain Last Line: Of a by-gone summer. Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Spring SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young leaves grow green on the banyan twigs Last Line: An idyl of love and spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Poppies; Seasons; Spring SPRING, by ANNE PITKIN Poem Source First Line: The morning glory, promiscuity Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories; Spring SPRING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and spilt blood and an appalling cry Last Line: Bursts, as of old, the blackbird's shameless song. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Graves; Laughter; Pain; Spring; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery SPRING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The robin saw the new spring bonnet Last Line: And it was spring! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Robins; Spring SPRING (2), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the green-kindling hawthorn hill Last Line: Girdled the glad white-flowering hill. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Temples; Graveyards; Mosques SPRING APPLE TREE; AQUARELLE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An apple-tree in spring shakes me,-to see it grow Last Line: And I lift up my lips to kiss her flowering face. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Apple Trees; Flowers; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring; Trees SPRING BLOSSOMS: 1, by KI NO TSURAYUKI Poem Source First Line: On a spring hillside Last Line: Even in the midst of my dreams Subject(s): Flowers; Spring SPRING CAME IN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring came in with a red-wing's feather Last Line: Yet come no more, should he tarry ... Tarry! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring SPRING CAROL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When loud by landside streamlets gush Last Line: Singing the songs of the meadows. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring SPRING FLOWERS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet and charitable friend Last Line: And live, to die no more. Subject(s): Flowers SPRING FLOWERS FROM IRELAND, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the letters rustling fold Last Line: And think the violet eyes thine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Irish SPRING GARLAND, by JAMES RORTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In april the moon is a thin feather of bloom Last Line: What you can %and leave what you must Subject(s): Flowers SPRING GATHERS IN THE GROUND BELOW ME, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Dr. Tulp's class crowds the corpse Last Line: And the blunt end of my brush uncovers it Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Spring SPRING HYMN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant is the opening year! Last Line: Must reap the harvest time hath sown. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Harvest; Seasons; Spring SPRING NOTES FROM ROBIN HILL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 200,000 rhododendron blossoms I estimate Last Line: On the bottom Subject(s): Flowers; Spring SPRING ON BROADWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make way for spring- / spring that's a stranger in the city Last Line: Make way! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Spring SPRING PHANTOMS, by PATRICIO LAFCADIO TESSIMA CARLOS HEARN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The moon, descending her staircase of clouds in one of the 'petits poemes Last Line: Warning - and he dare not! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Poetry And Poets; Spring SPRING QUIET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone were but the winter Last Line: "though far off it be." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 1 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring SPRING SONG, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love daffodils Last Line: "in the spring-time of flowers." Subject(s): Flowers; Spring SPRING SONG, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every sage this scheme indorses: make Last Line: Demijohns. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring SPRING SONG IN FALL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In my dark age, I know better Last Line: Or flowers opening for the bee's blast, %ever to be april's fool is my desire Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Children; Flowers; Spring SPRING SONG ON TOAST, by LUNA CRAVEN OSBURN Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms drifting Last Line: May sweetly woos the earth. Subject(s): Apples; Earth; Flowers; Fruit; May (month); World SPRING SONGS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The rivulet beneath the brae Last Line: As by thy voice,—thou happy-hearted child! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring SPRING THOUGHTS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man grows sick of the walls of brick, and Last Line: "toil, when the woodland's calling me!" Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Spring; Woods SPRING WAKING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A snowdrop lay in the sweet, dark ground Last Line: " 'tis spring!"" laughed the sun, "" 'tis spring!" Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Robins; Spring SPRING WILL COME, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The sun called down to the northwind 'back!' Last Line: And spring has come! Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Seasons; Spring SPRING WILL COME, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring will come to help me: she'll be Last Line: Naught she cares for harvest that lies so far away. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight SPRING'S ADVENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of spring is in the air Last Line: Mocking, she dares the circling shadow of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Spring; Time; World SPRING-BLOSSOMS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little daisies, two by two Last Line: His lovely immortality. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Spring SPRING-TIME, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For once the zephyrs have removed the cold Last Line: Some scantling buds, like ill-set gems, unfold. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Flowers; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Spring SPRING-TIME, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the distant woods are blowing Last Line: Flowers open tremblingly. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers SPRING-TIME, by ESTEBAN MANUEL DE VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet in the green spring Last Line: Of leaves and flowers and zephyrs go again Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring SPRINGTIDE OF THE SOUL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flesh to fragrant whitening of the bough Last Line: Deep meanings, silent, 'mid earth's melodies. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Spring; Thought; Thinking SPRINGTIME, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Month of roses. My poems Last Line: The sweet season of spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring SPRINGTIME SNACKS, by ANTOINETTE ALBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Limbs of magnolia blossoms Last Line: All served on a tablecloth of %green velvet lawns Subject(s): Flowers; Spring ST. CAMPION AND THE MAID OF WICKLOW, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A highland glen and one white cottage there Last Line: "drink! You are thirsty, climbing all the day." Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Heaven; Soul; Nightmares; Paradise ST. DOROTHEA (LINES FOR A PICTURE), by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bear a basket lined with grass Last Line: I find another christian here Subject(s): Conversion; Dorothea, St. (4th Century); Flowers; Fruit STANZAS, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lady, take these wilding flowers Last Line: Owe all her beauties to the shade. Subject(s): Flowers STAR LILIES, by CHERYL LATIF Poem Source First Line: Soil still between your fingers, you lead me through the garden. It is early Last Line: Upstairs, the star lilies. Their fragrant flesh becoming translucent. Soon %petals will fall, one by Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Lilies STAR TRACKS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Alone in bed at night I lie Last Line: Shine out like stars upon the grass. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Stars STAY IN ZORN, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Broad-chested across gaping chaos, he said, we blazed the Last Line: The bora was blowing fiercely, he said, and we had trouble %finding our way Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Paintings And Painters STEALING LILACS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Long before the arboretum opens Last Line: You have to lock me up %but bring me lilacs Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Lilacs; Love; Nature STEM OF A DEPARTED FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a despatch of pinbk Variant Title(s): Poem: 1520; Poem: 154 Subject(s): Flowers STEPHANOTIS, by MINNIE ELIZABETH OTTO Poem Text First Line: You lovely flower / exquisitely fair Last Line: Little princess of tropical flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Perfume; Spring STILL DAYS AND STORMY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday the wind blew Last Line: Is she yet mine? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Marigolds; Wind STILL LIFE: A GLASSFUL OF ZINNIAS ON MY DAUGHTER'S KITCHEN TABLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the interminable quest for truth Last Line: A glassful of zinnias on the table Subject(s): Daughters; Flowers STILL LIFE: A GLASSFUL OF ZINNIAS ON MY DAUGHTER'S KITCHEN TABLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the interminable quest for truth Last Line: A glassful of zinnias on the table Subject(s): Daughters; Flowers STONE INTO ROSE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the paved street dig a place for roots Last Line: Back to the earth in rain to feed a rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Stones; Granite; Rocks STRIKE AMONG THE FLOWERS, by MRS. RUSSELL KAVANAUGH Poem Source First Line: One morn as flora chanced to stray Subject(s): Flowers STRONG BOND, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: I grew %for you Last Line: And then...You'll be mine more than ever Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Complaints; Thorns SUBURBAN IDYL, by POLLY CHASE Poem Text First Line: They are clearing ground to build a house Last Line: And children's arms around us like a wall! Subject(s): Calm; Family Life; Flowers; Suburbs; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Relatives SUMMER APPROACHES, by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: May marches in waving flags as she enters Last Line: Trailing wild beauty the pathway along. Subject(s): Flowers; Summer SUMMER GARDEN, by LAURIE BYRO Poem Source First Line: I want to see the roses Last Line: And what of their loneliness? %and what of mine Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Parks; Roses; Summer SUMMER'S REVEL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! But my mind is weary! Last Line: "come, friend -- you've drunk your last now.'" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Life; Summer; Youth; Wine SUN AND RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day the sun and rain have been Last Line: Their wet eyes heavenward with these of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Baptism; Flowers; God; Rain; Roses; Christenings SUN IS A GLOBE OF FIRE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Water tinkles on the marble fountain Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Spring SUN-WORSHIP, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were the rose at your window Last Line: They'd know where the sunshine grew. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SURVIVORS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Mugwort, tansy, ragged robin, shepherd's purse Last Line: Are with us still Subject(s): Flowers; Love SWEET MOUTH, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet mouth that is inviting to taste Last Line: And all that remains of love is venom Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love - Nature Of; Roses SWEET ROSE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee 'mid the great and fair Last Line: The love I bore for thee, sweet rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses SWEET TIME, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The largest bud in creation travels Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening SWEET TIME, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The largest bud in creation travels Last Line: Their readiness %is making their own sweet ways unburied Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening SWEET TRIOLETS: THE BOUTONNIERE, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: Has though seen my triolet Last Line: That lately blushed upon the bough Subject(s): Flowers SYMMETRY, by NELLE MCCULLOUGH Poem Text First Line: He who thinks too much of the thorns knows Last Line: Is a practical idealist. Subject(s): Flowers; Idealism; Roses; Thorns TABLEAU, by R. GERALDINE LOWN Poem Text First Line: Orchids in your boudoir Last Line: Waiting till I come. Subject(s): Flowers; Perfume TAKE THESE FLOWERS, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And that lotus my soul! Subject(s): Flower TAKE YOURSELF TO THE ROSE-GARDEN, by NEDIM Poem Source First Line: Take yourself to the rose-garden, it's the season of our wandering Last Line: Oh swaying cypress, give back the ruined spring its reign Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TAKING THE BRIDE HOME, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll go not alone, my sweetheart dear! Last Line: The night-wind pipes the melody. Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs TANKA DIARY (6), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers of evergreen tree called bottlebrush Subject(s): Flowers TANKA: 1, by SADAKICHI HARTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter? Spring? Who knows! Last Line: Yet their fragrance augurs spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons TAUT FORM / SLENDER / TAUT AND SLENDER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Iris good thunder oh put on your fatigues Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses TAX CENTR 9TH ARR ST GEORGES CORP DIR TAX AUMALE HEAR, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: My dreams does it run still along your back Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TENDERNESS OF THE DEATH'S HEAD PURE CRANIAL ROSES BLUE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Under abode of sirens blatantly howling roses Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses TENDING THE FLOWER BOXES, by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: Pick off the dry heads of th geranium Last Line: Still sings inside the beheaded stalk Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening TESTIMONY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You can't step into the same Last Line: Either. Not once Subject(s): Butter; Flowers; Rivers THANATOPSIS FOR HETTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hartman's seamstress, hetty Last Line: To the no-more-needy dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THANKSGIVING FOR FLOWERS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bring me flowers - behold my shaded room Last Line: It leaves the world on flower with memories. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Flowers THE 'STILL-HOUSE SPRING, by ELIZABETH PICKETT Poem Text First Line: Dripping over fern and docks Last Line: Forever the 'still-house spring! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The THE ALL-KIND MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, whatever is at hand Last Line: "at her merciful ""arise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Mothers; Nature THE ALPINE FLOWERS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meek dwellers mid yon terror-stricken cliffs! Last Line: And freer dreams of heaven. Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE AMERICAN ALOE ON EXHIBITION, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But few they were who came to see Last Line: Accounting me a weed! Subject(s): Aloe (flower); Flowers 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 APOTHECARY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sick earth, sick with winter Last Line: And the tongue to tell. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Pharmacy & Pharmacists; Sun; Drug Store; Apothecary THE APRON OF FLOWERS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To gather flowers sappha went Last Line: The lap of proserpine. Subject(s): Flowers THE ARMOUR OF THE ROSE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The gorse by her parent, the golden broom Last Line: —to ward off the cattle miscall'd menkind. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses THE ASTER FLOWER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale on its stalk, the aster flower Last Line: We rest together till dawn has come. Subject(s): Asters; Flowers THE BACKGROUND GROUP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crowd huzzas, the music madly plays Last Line: The children orphaned at the mouths of guns. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heroism; Life; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE BATTLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There was a battle in her face Last Line: To battle for my sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses THE BATTLE OF THE FLOWERS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The battle raged, no blood was spilled Last Line: Jeanne ray! Jeanne ray! Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Flowers THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stand ye idle, blossoms bright Last Line: "for what thou takest away!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEST [THING IN THE WORLD], by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's the best thing in the world? Last Line: -- something out of it, I think. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE BIRTH OF SPRING, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: The birth of spring, with ambient sunshine, revives Last Line: And sunshine, birds and rain. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Spring THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS, by MARY MCNEIL SCOTT FENOLLOSA Poem Text First Line: God spoke! And from the arid scene Last Line: He smiled, and there were flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Mccall, Sidney; Scott, Mary Mcneil Subject(s): Flowers THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, when all was still Last Line: To listen—to the watchman bawling! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Passion; Perfume; Poetry & Poets; Spring THE BLACK WALL-FLOWER, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a flower in a desolate plot Last Line: "no flower but thee! Thou exquisite type of sorrow!" Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Flowers THE BLOOM OF THE CACTUS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rare splendor of scarlet in royalest fashion Last Line: So blooms my rich flower in the sun's golden shine. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Love THE BLOSSOM, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merry merry sparrow! Last Line: Near my bosom. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Flowers; Mythology THE BLOSSOMS ON THE TREES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms crimson, white, or Last Line: "the eyes may listen to!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Trees THE BLUE GENTIAN, by LAURA NELSON PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: With misty stars in chalice blue Last Line: Or sunbeams crown the sky. Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians THE BLUE GENTIANS, by EDWARD RYAN WOODLE Poem Text First Line: The fairest blossoms ever bloom the last Last Line: Bend, droop, and wither in the frosty breeze. Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Summer; Fringed Gentians THE BLUE SCARF, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Infatuation; Love - Unrequited; Scarves; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE BLUE SCARF, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE BLUET, by W. I. LINCOLN ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Dearest floweret of the meadow Last Line: And thy golden heart to god! Subject(s): Flowers THE BODY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had dreamed and dreamed what woman's beauty was Last Line: Over age that darkens, and griefs that destroy? Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Flowers; Roses; Women THE BRAMBLE FLOWER, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy fruit full well the schoolboy knows Last Line: In freedom and in joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Flowers THE BREATH OF SWEET, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now did wallflower breathe Last Line: His cold shade beneath. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Rebirth; Dead, The; Paradise THE BRIDE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All veiled in white and silver Last Line: The red red roses grew. Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Flowers; Love; Roses THE BROKEN FLOWER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Wear it on thy heart, my love! Last Line: Cherished, alas! Too late! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers THE BURIED FLOWER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of my chamber Last Line: Breaks o'er deathless paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mourning; Night; Bereavement; Bedtime THE BUTTERFLY AND THE ROSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She pluck'd a wild wood-rose, and fondly strove Last Line: To hold it, thou hast lightly thrown away! Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Bugs THE CALL OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Children, my children, the spring wakes anew Last Line: Like glad-hearted children together. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring THE CAPTIVE OF THE WHITE CITY, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flower of the foam of the waves Last Line: O rain-in-the-face? Subject(s): Chicago; Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The THE CARDINAL FLOWER, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like peal of a bugle Last Line: Thy ardor can tame. Subject(s): Cardinal Flowers THE CARVER'S LESSON, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trust me, no mere skill of subtle tracery Last Line: Left a message for his weary soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Carving (arts); Flowers; Life THE CASCADE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the mountain gray Last Line: Has lasted a thousand years. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Pools; Ponds THE CATHARA, by WALTER COLTON Poem Text First Line: But yesterday thine eyes were bright Last Line: To breathe in fragrant beauty there. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE CHARMS OF LIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hath life to charm us? Flowers Last Line: Life! How sumless are thy joys! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Charm; Echo (mythology); Flowers; Life THE CHILD AND THE ROSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the child to the rose: I would that I Last Line: Dead, with a baby at her breast. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Night; Roses; Winter; Childhood; Bedtime THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night it was jewelled Last Line: A rosy morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Flowers; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Roses; Childhood; Nativity, The; Paradise THE CHRISTMAS ROSE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A star-eyed child of judah's line Last Line: Then bore the babe the christmas rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Roses; Nativity, The THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chrysanthemums alone the garden wears Last Line: -- as also our sad hearts! Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers THE CISTUS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cistus! Whose fragile flower Last Line: Without our privilege so soon to die. Subject(s): Flowers THE CITY CHILD, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dainty little maiden, whither would you wander? Last Line: Daisies and kingcups and honeysuckle-flowers.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Flowers THE CLOISTERED ROSE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose that grew in the nun's white window Last Line: Ah, who may understand? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Nuns; Roses THE CLOTE (WATER-LILY), by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O zummer clote! When the brook's a-gliden Last Line: Thy flow'r afloat, goolden zummer clote! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Summer THE CLOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some sings of the lilly, and daisy, and rose Last Line: While my soul slips away on a breth of purfume. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clover; Flowers; Youth THE COMPANIONS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How few are they that voyage through the night Last Line: By hosts of unknown men. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eyes; Flowers; Soul; Spring; Nightmares THE CONFEDERATE, by WHITELAW SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: Death called, but frightened, he had turned away Last Line: Or that the bloom was death's confederate. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Flowers; Dead, The THE CONNOISSEUSE OF SLUGS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a connoisseuse of slugs Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE CONSUMPTIVE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Bring flowers, fresh flowers, the fairest spring can yield Last Line: Bring flowers ere I depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology) THE CORONET, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When for the thorns which I long, too long Last Line: May crown thy feet, that could not crown thy head. Subject(s): Cross, The; Flowers THE COWSLIP, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It brings my mother back to me Last Line: The mother and the boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers & Sons THE CRAB CACTUS BLOOMS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Today a miracle was swiftly wrought Last Line: "a ""christmas carol,"" bursting into bloom!" Subject(s): Cactus; Christmas Carols; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Leaves; Nature THE CRIMSON ROSE, by EDITH M. DELABY Poem Text First Line: I know that I shall never see Last Line: But fragrance sweet will linger on. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses 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 CROWN, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silently through the dusk my thoughts return to me Last Line: One coronet for both of astral buds and leaves. Subject(s): Children; Crowns; Fear; Flowers; Life; Pride; Childhood; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE CRUSHED AND BROKEN FLOWER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Within the forest depths unknown Last Line: Because he loved us so. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Beginnings; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE CRUSHED FLOWER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As through earth's garden once I strayed Last Line: But its poor heart was crushed! Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Flowers THE CRY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not hear her crying Last Line: To find her before I die! Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; God; Grass; Lakes; Lilies; Woods; Pools; Ponds THE DAISIES, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune Last Line: "and all of their dancing was, ""life, thou art good!" Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers THE DAISIES, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the scented bud of the morning o Last Line: In the field where the daisies are. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers THE DAISY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I know not why thy beauty should Last Line: Share my lost place with the wild green. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers THE DAISY, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Star of the mead! Sweet daughter of the day Last Line: To hail the daisy, flower of faithful love. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers THE DAISY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little daisy Last Line: In field and garden everywhere Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies THE DAISY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daisy blossoms on the rocks Last Line: St stephen's constancy. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Trees THE DAISY, by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With little white leaves Last Line: And I am the star of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers THE DAISY TOLD A LIE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I asked a pretty maiden Last Line: The daisy told a lie. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Legends; Love - Unrequited THE DAISY WHITE, by LUELLA DOWD SMITH Poem Text Last Line: To take us back to childhood's hour. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers THE DAISY'S MISTAKE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sunbeam and zephyr were playing about Last Line: "I had now been safe in my native bower!" Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Beauty; Daisies; Flowers; Kisses THE DAISY; WRITTEN AT EDINBURGH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love, what hours were thine and mine Last Line: My fancy fled to the south again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Italy; Love; Monaco; Italians THE DANDELION, by MARTHA E. CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: She's just a little wayward minx Last Line: And leave her in disgrace. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE DANDELION, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dandelion, rich and haughty Last Line: More golden than before. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE DANDELION, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand poets have sung the rose Last Line: The dandelion! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Weeds; Wind THE DANDELION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With locks of gold today Last Line: O man, thy fortune told! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE DANDELION, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Studding the grass with golden sheen Last Line: Loved by its well-loved light. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE DANDELION (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o dandelion, yellow as gold" Last Line: And blow my hair away Variant Title(s): "dandelion, What Do You Do?; Subject(s): Dandelions;flowers;weeds THE DEAR ADVENTURER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dear adventurer, once more dost thou Last Line: What talk, what treasures shown, what shining hours! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Past; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year Last Line: So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Dejection THE DEVOTION OF THE FLOWERS TO THEIR LADY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O queen, we are loyal: shall sad ones forget? Last Line: Rose, attesting it spite of the worm. Subject(s): Flowers THE DIAL OF FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a lonely thought to mark the hours Last Line: A charm for the shaded eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Charms (magic); Flowers THE DIFFERENCE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Let two go forth into the garden of life Last Line: They find themselves, and that is all they find. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise THE DISCARDED ROSE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has thrown a rose away Last Line: The roses that you have today. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE DYING BOY TO THE WINDFLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And have ye come again Last Line: I follow! Lead the way! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Death - Babies THE DYING GIRL AND FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear them not from grassy dells Last Line: Where no death can touch the rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers THE DYING POETS FAREWELL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou wondrous arch of azure Last Line: To that high and laurelled quire. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Farewell; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Dead, The; World; Parting THE DYING ROSE, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose lay dying in the summer heat Last Line: And lived an hour to deck a singer's wreath. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE EARLY PRIMROSE, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire! Last Line: Serene the ills of life. Variant Title(s): To An Early Primrose Subject(s): Flowers; Primroses THE EGLANTINE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was setting in the summer west Last Line: And memories of the by-past, sad and sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Memory; Roses; Youth THE ENCHANTED SPRING, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er golden sands my waters flow Last Line: Come! Sip it freshly as it flows. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Water THE EXILES, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, - the new rose is rich and fair Last Line: That kept life sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE FADED BLOSSOMS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One gazed back sadly on his years withdrawn Last Line: We need not mourn the unsoiled blank of youth. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Trees 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 FADING ROSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a rose, in bloom, but sad Last Line: "tis there I have laid her and trod her in.'" Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE FAIREST ROSE IS FAR AWA', by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morn is blinking o'er the hills Last Line: The fairest rose that's far awa'. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE FAIRY SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think I know where the flowers go Last Line: And school is out at last! Subject(s): April; Children; Flowers; Schools; Spring; Childhood; Students THE FAIRY, THE ROSE, AND THE NIGHTINGALE; A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rose while yet 'twas early morn Last Line: So to revel in the golden ray. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses THE FALL OF THE ROSE; ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR YOUNG LADY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose was saturate with dew Last Line: Unchanging glows. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The THE FAUN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my garden's silence and seclusion Last Line: Thy pagan soul! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Past THE FAVORITE FLOWER, by MARIANNE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Wild rose! Sweet rose, your beauty charms the heart Last Line: With friendship's call we thrive, our future glows. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE FEAR OF FLOWERS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nodding oxeye bends before the wind Last Line: In every place the very wasp of flowers. Subject(s): Flowers THE FIELD DAISY, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a pretty little thing Last Line: "surely winter's gone away." Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers THE FIELD SWEET-BRIER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the flowers that come about with spring Last Line: Our wild sweet-brier would be the one to choose. Subject(s): Brier; Flowers; Briar THE FIRE VASE, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Said the potter to the flower pots: 'it's a question of design Last Line: He saw love's lost illusions safe within the potter's vase. Subject(s): Flowers; Pottery And Potters; Vases THE FIRST DANDELION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close Last Line: The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds THE FIRST FLOWERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For ages, on our river borders Last Line: Were real, or the rhymer's dream! Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Spring; Trees THE FIRST OF MARCH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bud is in the bough, and the leaf is in the bud Last Line: O thou sunny first of march! Be it dedicate to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; March (month); Peace; World THE FIRST ROSE OF SUMMER, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh dear! Is summer over? Last Line: "why, it's just begun!" Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Summer; Childhood THE FLORIST WEARS KNEE-BREECHES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My flowers are reflected Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWER, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a flower, with a cup Last Line: Disherited. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWER, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fresh, o lord, how sweet and clean Last Line: Forfeit their paradise by their pride. Variant Title(s): Revival Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers THE FLOWER, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, across a foreign plain Last Line: He murmurs, 'lawk-a-daisy!' Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could not see at that hour Last Line: The blindness -- the blindness -- that ruined me! Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Moon; Night; Rain; Destiny; Bedtime THE FLOWER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a golden hour Last Line: Call it but a weed. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees THE FLOWER, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the other day, to spend my hour Last Line: Thus all the year I mourn. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Happy Are The Dead;the Hidden Flower;i Walked The Other Day Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers; Mourning; Bereavement THE FLOWER (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I grow tensions Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE FLOWER AND THE BUTTERFLY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once to the butterfly a floweret sighed Last Line: "the sky—the mead." Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF, OR THE LADY IN THE ARBOUR; A VISION, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now turning from the wintry signs, the sun Last Line: Thy simple style to suit thy lowly kind. Subject(s): Fables; Flowers; Nature; Vision; Women; Allegories THE FLOWER FACTORY, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Lisabetta [or lizabetta], marianina, fiametta, teresina Last Line: Fill their baby hands with roses, joyous roses of the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Flowers; Wellesley College THE FLOWER FAIR, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city walls rise up to greet Last Line: The crimson and gold of the flower fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWER FOLK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth Last Line: But the rose with all its thorns excels them both. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Hope;sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 17 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE FLOWER MARKET, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the royal city spring is almost over Last Line: "would pay the taxes of ten poor houses." Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Flowers; Social Protest THE FLOWER OF THE DESERT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou thus in thy beauty cast Last Line: "by the lonely, loneliest flower!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Deserts; Flowers; Food & Eating THE FLOWER OF THE VALLEY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet flower of the valley, why droop'st thou so low Last Line: And chant o'er thy ruins the dirge of the dead. Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWER SUTRA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep drowsy shade under the broad leaves Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWER THAT FEELS NOT SPRING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the prisons dark of the circling bark Last Line: If it waft me, o fanny, my daughter, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Spring; Dead, The THE FLOWER-GATHERERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where a brook with lisping tongue Last Line: Forgets he had a course to run. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Mothers; Destiny THE FLOWER-GIRL, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose or jasmine? Last Line: And the sunflower of thy heart! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Sunflowers THE FLOWERING FAGGOTS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a field called floridus, east of small bethlehem town Last Line: Howbeit, the tale is handed down, and the field lies near bethlehem town. Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Legends; Roses THE FLOWERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buy my english posies! Last Line: Masters of the seven seas, oh, love and understand. Subject(s): England; Flowers; English THE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When love arose in heart and deed Last Line: So red, so ripe, the roses burn'd! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are not ours Last Line: It blooms and vanishes again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWERS ALONE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have to be Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWERS APPEAR ON THE EARTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young girls wear flowers Last Line: Lost eden's own delection. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWERS OF ETERNITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The good deeds we have sown Last Line: In that fair realm beyond the sun. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Roses THE FLOWERS OF HELICON, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The solitudes of helicon Last Line: To her own western world again. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Flowers; Helicon (mountain), Greece THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST, by ALISON RUTHERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling Last Line: For the flowers of the forest are a' wede away. Alternate Author Name(s): Cockburn, Patrick, Mrs.; Cockburn, Alison; Cockburn, Alicia Subject(s): Flowers; Fortune THE FLOWERS' BALL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an olden story Last Line: The little china aster. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Flowers THE FLOWERY ALCHEMIST, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hist, oh hist! Last Line: Thou wildest bee in black and yellow! Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Flowers; Love; Story-telling THE FLUTE-PLAYER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw her. 'twas long ago Last Line: With a different sound must fall! Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Flutes; Love; Rain; Roses; Seasons; Fall THE FORBIDDEN ROSE, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wore a cold, hard lily on her breast Last Line: With passion, and whose very scent was red. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE FORTUNE IN THE DAISY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of what are you dreaming, my pretty maid Last Line: A richer flower than daisies! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers THE FRANCE FLOWER, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stroll forth this flowery day Last Line: The france flower, the flower of light! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Flowers THE FRIENDSHIP-FLOWER, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first the friendship-flower is planted Last Line: But leave the blossoms where they died. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship THE FUNERAL RITES OF THE ROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose was sick and smiling died Last Line: And closed her up as in a tomb. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE GARDEN, by LOIS STANTON PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: A haven of rest to soul and to eye Last Line: And each precious blossom breathes the word love. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise THE GARDEN IN SPRING, by EDITH MCNALL Poem Text First Line: When the garden gate is open Last Line: In weariness. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN IN THE SKIES, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I see a garden in the skies Last Line: From a flower bed in the skies! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise THE GARDEN OF LOST ROSES, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, beware, sister mine, of the gardens Last Line: On the dreams that can never come true. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses THE GARDEN OF ROSES, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the beautiful garden of roses Last Line: "and the moon and the stars by night!" Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses THE GARDEN VIGIL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep silence of the garden-bowers Last Line: May in thy flame adore his hidden face. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Rest; Silence; Graveyards; Dead, The 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 GARLAND, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pride of every grove I chose Last Line: The justice of thy chloe's sorrow.' Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Nymphs; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 3. ECSTASY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let spring illume the western hills with blossoming / brands of fire Last Line: Swept o'er the flood-gates of my life to drown my waiting heart! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Passion; Spring THE GAUDY FLOWER, by ISAAC TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Why does my anna toss her head Last Line: And wins the eye, but not the mind. Subject(s): Flowers THE GOSSIPS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: The rose bud that grew by the settle Last Line: The rover returns to the rose. Subject(s): Flowers THE GOSSIPS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose in my garden, the sweetest and fairest Last Line: "and you are the loveliest flower that grows." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now grave to rose complaineth Last Line: "I fledge with angel's wing." Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grave said: 'rose, so bright of hue Last Line: "god's paradise to fill." Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE GREAT MULLEN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: One leaves his leaves at home Subject(s): Flowers THE GYPSY'S WINDOW, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems a stage Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Reality; Roses THE HAREBELL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Last Line: And flocks in quiet feeding round! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Harebells; Memory; Perfume THE HARVESTING OF THE ROSES, by MENAHEM IBN SARUK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From his garden bed our lord Last Line: They were in death to him restored. Alternate Author Name(s): Menahem Ben Saruq; Menahem Ben Jacob Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Jews; Roses; Dead, The; Judaism THE HEART OF A MAID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the heart of a rose Last Line: And with fading must break. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE HEART OF THE ROSE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet talked with the happy rose Last Line: And rich in its attar depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE HEATHROSE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a boy a rosebud spied Last Line: Heathrose fair and tender! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE HILL-FLOWERS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving through the dew, moving through the dew Last Line: Moving through the dew, moving through the dew. Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE HOLY ROSE, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The holy rose her leaves will soon unfold Last Line: And seething, overflow. ... Hosannah, lord! Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses THE HUMAN FLOWER: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the old void of unrecorded time Last Line: The world's consummate, peerless human flower. Subject(s): Flowers; Time THE HUMAN FLOWER: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall that bright flower the countless ages toiled Last Line: Transplant it to his realm of paradise? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The THE HUMMING-BIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a monster bee Last Line: Into a murmurous sound of wings too swift for sight! Subject(s): Flowers; Hummingbirds; Marigolds; Summer; Wings THE INADEQUATE ORDERLY SIMPLIFICATION. BUT THE THREE NATURAL UNITS. AND ONLY ARBITRARY CONSTANTS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you sit in the chair of the flower it will hear you Subject(s): Flowers THE INQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the rose of keenest thorn Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Under The Rose; %'the Iniquity Of The Fathers Upon The Children' Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Flowers; Roses; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE IVORY GATE: DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let dew the flowers fill; / no need of fell despair Last Line: Death's arrow oft is love's. Subject(s): Flowers THE IVY CROWN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The whole process is a lie Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE JEALOUS ROSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ravish thy beauty, o wind, o breeze" Last Line: "where the storms abide, / scatter my petals wide" Subject(s): Betrayal;flowers THE JESSAMINE BOWER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a bower where the jessamine blows Last Line: Peace is the priestess and silence the psalm! Subject(s): Flowers THE JEWELS OF DAWN AND OF DUSK, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Like a diamond on a roseleaf when the dew has Last Line: So steals upon a darken'd heart thy smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses THE JOURNEY; FOR JANE KENYON (1947-1995), by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside me on the plane Last Line: Calling its petals home. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 4. THE KNIGHT BEAUCLERC TO THE LADY GLORIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that the queen with all her maids came / singing Last Line: Farewell! Farewell! But I have loved you best. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Dreams; Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Roses; Nightmares THE LAMENT OF THE FLOWERS, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I looked to find spring's early flowers Last Line: "to glad the heart, and save from harm." Subject(s): Flowers THE LANE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How are those berries lovely in Last Line: And plucking other flower of dreams. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Winter; Childhood THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, by MARIA ABDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mystic science is not mine Last Line: To commune with the flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A. Subject(s): Flowers THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does the rosemary remember? Subject(s): Flowers THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should this flower delay so long Last Line: By the great face behind. Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers THE LAST FLOWER OF THE GARDEN, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The last flower of the garden was blooming Last Line: And the once lovely flower was withered and dead. Subject(s): Flowers; Winter THE LAST LOOK, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shade of the will fell dark on the tide Last Line: "ah, who will now watch o'er my favourite flowers!" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Childhood THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing on, sing ever, and let sobs arise Last Line: An universe, a god, a living ever. [she dies. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Songs THE LAST MAN: ROSILY DYING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll take that fainting rose Last Line: And give to me thy pink, reclining death. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Revenge; Roses; Dead, The THE LAST MOWING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a place called far-away meadow Last Line: I needn’t call you by name Variant Title(s): Mowing Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Mowing & Mowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers THE LAST PALE FLOWERS, by LYDIA JANE PEIRSON Poem Text First Line: The last pale flowers are drooping on the stems Last Line: With all the beautiful to pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Lydia Jane Subject(s): Flowers THE LAST REQUEST, by MAURICE RABINOWITZ Poem Text First Line: E bade me pluck a rose o'red Last Line: Is bloomin' in me 'eart. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Dead, The THE LAST ROSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O which is the last rose? Last Line: That fill'd all the world. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the last rose of summer Last Line: This bleak world alone? Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness THE LAURELS ARE FELLED, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled Last Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled. Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grass; Laurels; Lilies; Woods THE 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 LIFE OF FLOWERS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When hath wind or rain Last Line: Felt safe, unsoiled, nor lost one grain of gold. Subject(s): Flowers THE LIKENESS OF HIS YESTERDAYS ..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The likeness of his yesterdays is such Last Line: Than yesterday's -- brought from the day before? Subject(s): April; Flowers; Hearts; Roses THE LILACS; TO A -- AND H --, ROYAL AIR FORCE, AUGUST 1925, by WILLIAM FAULKNER Poem Text First Line: We sit drinking tea Last Line: He's not dead, poor chap; he didn't die . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; War THE LILIES OF THE FIELD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers! When the saviour's calm benignant eye Last Line: Than yours, ye lilies! Chosen thus and graced! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Religion; Theology THE LILY, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, on the river banks we knew Last Line: And wore it at the ball that night. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory of flowers! Pre-eminent o'er all Last Line: The virgin mother of all nations blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE LILY, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that after wandering long I came Last Line: And as I walked beside her, I awoke. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilies; Nightmares THE LILY, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How withered, perish'd seems the form / of yon obscure unsightly root Last Line: Eternal spring! Shall burst the gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY AND THE LINDEN, by FRED CROSBY Poem Text First Line: Far away under skies of blue Last Line: And gilded the grave of the lily fair. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Nature THE LILY AND THE ROSE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph must lose her female friend Last Line: They reign united there. Subject(s): Flowers; Great Britain; Lilies; Roses THE LILY AND THE ROSE, by VICTORIEN SARDOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A secret I wish to disclose Last Line: United to form a bouquet. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses THE LILY OF MALUD, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lily of malud is born in secret mud Last Line: But she knows not what it was. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies THE LILY OF THE RESURRECTION, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the lily dwells in earth Last Line: Dies a bulb, to live a flower! Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE LILY OF THE VALE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See bending to the gentle gale Last Line: That blossoms in this wild retreat. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest of the flowers a-blooming Last Line: In the valley shades of death. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY OF YORROW, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the heart of the forest the lily Last Line: He has discovered it first, and perhaps I shall find it to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY POND, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: O lily-pond, thy early charm Last Line: The changing permanent. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY SPEAKS, by ELSIE FRANKLIN Poem Text First Line: Gay little lily Last Line: "its language is god!" Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LILY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The modest rose puts forth a thorn Last Line: Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Lilies; Mythology THE LITTLE BLACK ROSE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little black rose shall be red at last Last Line: In a wind o'er the plains of athenry. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE LITTLE BRETHREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brendan went to the greenwood Last Line: Wept: and he heard their tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Brendan, Saint (484-578); Fairies; Flowers; God; Jesus Christ; Soul; Tears; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Elves THE LITTLE FLOWER STREWERS, by MATTHEW RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Dear children, kiss your flowers, and fling them at his feet Last Line: And at whose feet, dear children, our flowers, our hearts, we throw. Subject(s): Flowers THE LONG SEASON, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Now when all slopes and fields not crushed by storm Last Line: The mortal increase. Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Flowers; Nature; Seasons THE LOST LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wind is it that stirs Last Line: Whence none returns, none goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Loss; Roses; Wind; Youth THE LOST NAME, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voice of my true love is low Last Line: And know her by her tears! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses THE LOTOS AND THE LILY: THE LILY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: View us, white-robed lilies Last Line: To true love's completeness, Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE LOVELIEST FACE AND THE WILD ROSE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The loveliest face! I turned to her Last Line: In the white being of one girl. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses THE LOVELY CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilies are both pure and fair Last Line: Than a primrose, blossoming? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Childhood THE LOVER, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Come let us now to each discover Last Line: "my loves begun, it will not end" Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): Beauty;faces;flowers;love THE LOVER'S POSY, by RUFINUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send a garland to my love Last Line: So must you too, haughty maid. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE LUCKFLOWER, by HARVEY W. FLINK Poem Text First Line: Upon a rugged hill-side Last Line: Upon the mountain sides. Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Flowers; Mountains; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LURE OF THE BUTTERCUP, by ELEANOR STIMMEL Poem Text First Line: Why do you hang your head like that? Last Line: Bent down and kissed the lovely face. Subject(s): Flowers THE LYRE AND FLOWER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lyre its plaintive sweetness poured Last Line: Not like that flower! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers THE M??TIER OF BLOSSOMING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fully occupied with growing--that's Subject(s): Flowers THE MAGIC FLOWER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bear a flower in your hand Last Line: Let not your magic blossom fall. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of THE MAGIC FLOWER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through many days and many days Last Line: The unfolding of our love's white flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Flowers; Love THE MAGIC OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I buried my heart so deep, so deep Last Line: "is it the spring, the spring?" Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Rebirth; Spring; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MARIGOLD, by GILLES DURANT Poem Text First Line: I love the modest violet Last Line: But most I love the marigold. Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds THE MARIGOLD, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When with a serious musing I behold Last Line: Which merit not the service we bestow.... Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Poetry & Poets 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 MARK OF THE ROSE, by HOWARD THAYER KINGSBURY Poem Text First Line: I opened the book before me Last Line: Shall last forever and aye. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Roses THE MASTERPIECE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas blush of morning as I went Last Line: Cries 'lilac! Lilac! Lilac!' Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Walking THE MEASURE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Now frail the flower and strong the weed Last Line: Measures the long step of the sun. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Nature; Planets; World THE MENACE OF AUTUMN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amber and yellow and russet, gold and red Last Line: And wold and woodland lie, austere and bare. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall THE MENAGE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up stand / six / yellow / jonquils Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Flowers THE MESSAGE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So fair the world about me lies Last Line: I will send unto her the rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Love; Roses THE MESSAGE OF THE ROSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Only a rose in a glass Last Line: "I thank thee, rose, dear rose" Subject(s): Flowers;roses THE MILL GARDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately stand the sunflowers, glowing down the garden-side Last Line: Fair befall the fair green close that lies below the mill! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE MOONFLOWER, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The flower that lives in the light of the moon Last Line: There to sleep forever, drowned in the nectar I have drunk. Subject(s): Flowers; Women THE MORNING-GLORY, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We wreathed about our darling's head Last Line: Twine round our dear lord's knee. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Morning Glories; Dead, The THE MORNING-GLORY, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the peach ripens to a rosy bloom Last Line: That form too fair, on earth, unsullied to abide Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories THE MOSQUES, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a flower in ancient fez Last Line: Till time, and life, and death are past. Subject(s): Flowers; God 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 MOSS ROSE, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mossy rose on mossy stone Last Line: One the root and one the life. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE MOUNTAIN FLOWER, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, the rude mountain turf adorning Last Line: And had bloom'd and died unseen. Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE MOUNTAIN LILAC, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the hills Last Line: Upon the hills. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) 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 NEW GOD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye morning-glories, ring in the gale your bells Last Line: Calling to you, ye swinging spears of the larkspur. Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories 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 NOSEGAY, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll pull a bunch of buds and flowers Last Line: Is the sweet little girl that bound them. Subject(s): Flowers THE OLD COUPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pair of oldsters, humble folk, come straying Last Line: Behold them -- king and queen! Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eyes; Faith; Flowers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Belief; Creed THE OLD ROOTS OF LOVE, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the old roots of love Last Line: A tall and budded spray... Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love THE OLD SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the dead go wed the dead Last Line: God have mercy on all lovers! Subject(s): Daisies; Death; Flowers; God; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The THE ONE WHITE ROSE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sorrowful woman said to me Last Line: And the one white rose on the breast! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE OPENING OF THE LILIES, by GRACE ROBERTSON TUTTLE Poem Text First Line: In the still cool of the morning Last Line: Gold centers to the sky. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE ORANGE LILY-O, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh did you go to see the show Last Line: There's not a flower in erin's bower / can match the orange lily-o Subject(s): Flowers THE ORIENTAL NOSEGAY, BY PICKERSGILL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the light curtains came the perfumed air Last Line: Fling, fling the flowers away! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Paintings & Painters THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ARGUMENT, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But she prefers the morning glory Last Line: To fill half the day with blue Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories THE PAINTED CUP, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fresh savannas of the sangamon Last Line: Of these bright beakers, drain the gathered dew. Subject(s): Flowers THE PARTERRE, by E. HARRIET PALMER Poem Text First Line: I don't know any greatest treat Last Line: Than every roses buttoning there. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Noses; Roses; Women THE PASQUE FLOWER, by STELLA PFEIFFER BAISCH Poem Text First Line: Anemone of purple hue Last Line: Sweet, modest wind-flower of the plain. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; The Resurrection THE PASSION FLOWER HATH SPRUNG UP TALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tending toward the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Passion Flowers THE PETAL OF A ROSE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us be quiet for a while Last Line: Blushes in the solitude! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE PHANTOM OF THE ROSE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet lady, let your lids unclose Last Line: "e'en kings are jealous of its bliss." Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Women THE PICTURE OF LITTLE T.C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: See with what simplicity / this nymph begins her golden days! Last Line: Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Mortality; Childhood THE PIMPERNEL, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walks beside the silent shore- Last Line: Forgotten, is the pimpernel. Subject(s): Flowers; Longing; Love; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE PLAINT HUMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Season of snows, and season of Last Line: And much too much of the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brothers; Flowers; Grief; Seasons; Snow; Half-brothers; Sorrow; Sadness THE PLAINT OF THE ROSE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the budding rose, 'all night Last Line: "to the calm of the cloister night!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE PLAINT OF THE WILD FLOWER, by JOHN SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: I was not born for the town Last Line: Where I was born. Subject(s): Flowers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 294, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the flower among the leaves Last Line: Red cheeks don't last long Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Flowers; Mortality THE POET'S JOURNAL: CHURCHYARD ROSES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woodlands wore a gloomy green Last Line: Of love, that death has sanctified! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Flowers; Forests; Love; Roses; Dead, The; Woods THE POET'S JOURNAL: IF LOVE SHOULD COME AGAIN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If love should come again, I ask my heart Last Line: And silently we parted for repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Destiny THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE MYSTIC SUMMER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the dropping of the flower Last Line: The mystic summer wanes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Summer THE POOR LITTLE RICH FLOWER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: It's better to be a buttercup out in the / grass Last Line: Flower, in a lady's bower. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Summer; Wealth; Childhood; Riches; Fortunes THE PRAISE OF ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pour we roses into wine! Last Line: Drinking mid the summer's heat. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Praise; Roses THE PRESCIENCE OF THE ROSE, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out imprisoning petals - velvet red Last Line: Be all unfolded and revealed to me? Subject(s): Flowers; Red (color); Roses; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE PRESSED GENTIAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time of gifts has come again Last Line: The flower upon its inmost side! Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians THE PROMISE OF SPRING, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O day of god, thou bringest back Last Line: His sweet and silent ways. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Spring 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 QUEEN OF FLOWERS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the light, fantastic queen of flowers Last Line: While vermeil curtains round my pillow close. Subject(s): Flowers 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 RECLUSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you live in shadows and sighs Last Line: "will hide me forever from your eyes!" Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; God; Hearts; Hermits; Life; Night; Roses; Supernatural; Bedtime THE RED AND THE WHITE ROSE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The red rose bowed one golden summer's night Last Line: The heaven-bound votaress and the earthly queen! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE RED LILY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call her the red lily. Lo! She stands Last Line: As, woven once, what lordliest will can break? Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE REFORMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man once stood before a frowning wall Last Line: And deified his name to after-times. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Heaven; Lies; Love; Paradise THE RESURRECTION, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My true love still is all that's fair Last Line: Which throws a shadow on my mind. Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Love; Resurrection, The; Trees THE RETURN OF MAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Fairy queen, adorned with flowers Last Line: Oh! Lovely may. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; May (month) THE RETURN OF THE FLOWERS, by AUGUSTUS WATTERS Poem Text First Line: Oh, dainty baby foresters Last Line: And only love shall live. Subject(s): Flowers THE REVERSE OF THE GOLDEN SHIELD (AN EASTER MORNING REVERIE), by WILL MAJOR MAUPIN Poem Text First Line: Along the chancel rail, and on the altar stair Last Line: Starve, and within the shadow of his church to-day. Subject(s): Churches; Easter; Flowers; God; Holidays; Lilies; Prayer; Cathedrals; The Resurrection THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER?, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In may, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes Last Line: The self-same power that brought me there brought you. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Religion; Rhodora; Theology THE RHYME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is the sign of Subject(s): Flowers; Loss THE RIVAL QUEENS; AN APOLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A damask rose and a lily white Last Line: "hath some that we have not!" Subject(s): Flowers THE ROAD TO OLD MAN'S TOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fields of youth are filled with flowers Last Line: The road to old man's town! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Flowers; Roads; Towns; Youth; Paths; Trails THE ROCK-LILY (NEW SOUTH WALES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The amber-tinted level sands Last Line: The glory of these austral plains. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Flowers; Lilies THE ROLL OF THE ROSES, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: We called the roll of the roses Last Line: With a troubadour tolling a bell. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Troubadours; Minnesingers THE ROMANCE OF THE LILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever love the lily pale Last Line: Of the closing gates of hell. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Magic; Story-telling; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor rose! I lift you from the street Last Line: I'll drop you in the river. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Variant Title(s): Le Roman De La Rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSARIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One ask'd me where the roses grew? Last Line: A bud in either cheek. Variant Title(s): The Rosary Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fixed to her necklace, like another gem Last Line: And must, indeed, have been much happier. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My lilla gave me yestermorn Last Line: The lovelier rose that give it too? Subject(s): Flowers;roses THE ROSE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, who smiles wherever he goes Last Line: To cover her burning cheek. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose had been washed, just washed in a shower Last Line: "may be followed perhaps by a smile." Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a boy beheld a bright Last Line: Rose once redly glowing. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of summer, lovely rose Last Line: Tis lasting beauty to be wise! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Summer; Youth THE ROSE, by GUDMUNDUR GUDMUNDSSON Poem Text First Line: It drooped and it faded, my rose of beauty rare Last Line: Unbroken peace. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The THE ROSE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Press me not to take more pleasure Last Line: For my answer is a rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before mans fall, the rose was born Last Line: But ne're the rose without the thorn. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, what a history is on the rose! Last Line: Unfolded to the earliest breath of june. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, serene, sky-like flower Last Line: Because her cheeks are near. Variant Title(s): Ode To Lucasta. The Rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It tossed its head at the wooing breeze Last Line: Will hide in the leaves in wait for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Sun THE ROSE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, mignonne, hath not the rose Variant Title(s): Ode Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations THE ROSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, edith! Spare the rose; it lives, it lives Last Line: And fill with eden odours all the air. Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; God; Grace; Innocence; Prayer; Punishment; Roses; Salvation THE ROSE, by ELIZABETH TOLLET Poem Text First Line: Beneath my feet when flora cast Last Line: And love and life must fade and fall. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love's star over eden, / how pale and faint thou art! Last Line: It is hers, my rose, my heart! Subject(s): Evening Star; Flowers; Love; Roses THE ROSE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle, gentle river / hurrying along Last Line: T will cheer life's wilderness. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Rivers; Roses THE ROSE (1), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First the warmth, variability Last Line: Coldly its perfection Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rose, thou flower of flowers, thou fragrant wonder Last Line: To gladden earth and cheer all hearts below. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The stillness of the rose Last Line: Long since begun Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE (3), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose is obsolete Last Line: Penetrates space Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE AND MAPLE LEAF, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Came a loud knocking at the empire's gate Last Line: An empire knit in one vast brotherhood. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROSE AND THE BEE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a bee and you were a rose Last Line: "if you were a bee." Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs THE ROSE AND THE FERN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, life's sweetest lesson wouldst thou learn Last Line: Gather life's full-blown rose! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE AND THE GRAVE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grave said to the rose Last Line: The grave said to the rose. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROSE AND THE THORN, by MARY FRANCES WARD Poem Text First Line: Love is like a charming rose Last Line: When you grasp it tightly. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Metaphor; Roses; Similes THE ROSE AND THE WIND, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, think you, comes the wind Last Line: Roses must live and love, and winds must blow. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Wind THE ROSE AND THORN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's loveliest of the festal throng Last Line: The thorn has pierced her heart. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Thorns THE ROSE ENTHRONED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It melts and seethes, the chaos that shall grow Last Line: A fair and fragile weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Flowers; Life; Nature; Roses; World THE ROSE FARMER, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming through the rye Last Line: The flower of a subject is enough. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE HAS LEFT THE GARDEN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose has left the garden Last Line: Still in her death. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The THE ROSE I GREW, by JULIA S. ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: In pensive mood Last Line: As one I grew and watched from day to day! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses THE ROSE IN WINTER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When last I saw this opening rose Last Line: Who could have dreamed so strange a thing? Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter THE ROSE OF FLAME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose! Last Line: O fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Peace; Roses; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Nightmares THE ROSE OF SHARON, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: Oh! I love to roam in fancy o'er the hills where Last Line: For our god has made our mission not for us but for all men. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Jews; Nature; Palestine; Roses; Judaism THE ROSE OF THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark rose of thy mouth Last Line: Kiss me, imperishable fire, dark rose, o rose of my desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Immortality; Mortality; Mouths; Reincarnation; Roses; Transmigration; Pretas THE ROSE OF WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its leaves are bright with the cannon-shine Last Line: For the breath of the tomb is there. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; War THE ROSE SHE WORE IN WINTER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rose, so subtly sweet Last Line: The summer's by-gone bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter THE ROSE TREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O words are lightly spoken Last Line: "can make a right rose tree." Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Connolly, James (1868-1916); Flowers; Freedom; Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879-1916); Roses; Liberty THE ROSE'S MESSAGE, by MARY WINCHESTER ABBOTT Poem Text First Line: Can you read in the heart of a rose, love Last Line: Do not spurn it or crush it, my sweet! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE'S PHILOSOPHY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When red and white the rose of june Last Line: Who loves the rose must love the thorn' Subject(s): Flowers;gardens & Gardening;labor & Laborers;perfume;philosophy & Philosophers;roses THE ROSE-BUD; TO A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM BROOME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of fragrance, lovely rose Last Line: And thou must be what they are now. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses; Transience; Impermanence THE ROSE-BUSH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a rose-bush in a garden growing Last Line: Its every bud grown into perfect flower Subject(s): Flowers;life;roses THE ROSE-BUSH IN AUTUMN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know, and the sunset-angel knows Last Line: And the tints of its topmost spray! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Fall THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE ROSE-LADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream that you are kisses allah Last Line: For having kissed the dust beneath my feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; God; Kisses; Roses; Nightmares THE ROSE: A BALLAD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his tower sat the poet Last Line: Down upon the poet's cheek. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses THE ROSEBUSH, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bush whereon the blushing rose, when Last Line: In sorrow and in pain. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses THE ROSES OF LA GARRAYE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the ruins of la garraye Last Line: Leaving only its ghost at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSES OF SAADI, by DESBORDES VALMORE Poem Text First Line: This morning I had roses for thee found Last Line: Breathe on my bosom, love, their odours blent. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses THE ROSES ON THE TERRACE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose, on this terrace fifty years ago Last Line: Glows in the blue of fifty miles away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSY WREATH, by RUFINUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rhodocleia, flowers of spring Last Line: Thou thyself must fade some day. Subject(s): Flowers; Transience; Impermanence THE ROUND, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Light splashed this morning Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 1, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! For morning in the bowl of night Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 26, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, come with old khayyam, and leave the wise / to talk Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Paradise THE RUBAIYAT, 1889 EDITION: 19, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes think that never blows so red Last Line: Dropt in her lap from some once lovely head. Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Flowers THE RUIN AND ITS FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweets of the wild! That breathe and bloom Last Line: She seeks despair, with heart-reviving smile! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Ruins THE RUINED CROSS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wreathed bright flower-wreaths in her hair Last Line: The youthful wanderer died. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The THE RUSH-BEARING AT AMBLESIDE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come, with her leaves and her flowers Last Line: Let us seek the green rush by the deep woodland springs. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Festivals; Flowers; Fairs; Pageants THE RWOSE IN THE DARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In zummer, leate at evenen tide Last Line: Ov her bright feäce by mornèn light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Love; Marriage; Roses; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SADNESS OF SUMMER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful summer! Thou bringest again Last Line: We hear the sweet whisper, we 're fain to obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Desire; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Roses; Death - Babies; Paradise THE SAILOR'S RETURN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I see her as she went Last Line: Because so well I love her. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE SATURNIAN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I must follow it high and low Last Line: And from my birth have I been such. Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Flowers; God; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime THE SCATTERED ROSE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rose from the flowers in her garden she offer'd Last Line: To merit that blessing by loving her less. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses THE SEA-SWALLOWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fell when christmas lights were done Last Line: "the ways are sair fra' the till to the tyne." Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Roses; Sea; Nativity, The; Ocean THE SEASONS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In springtime life from out the earth Last Line: And loving hearts surround. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Seasons; Spring THE SECRET GARDEN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way you see it first is through Last Line: Before we're through with tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Flowers; Food & Eating; Gardens & Gardening; Green (color); Guests; Lilies; Secrets; Tea; Worms; Visiting THE SEMANTICS OF FLOWERS ON MEMORIAL DAY, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Historians will tell you my uncle / wouldn't have called it world war ii Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Memorial Day THE SENIOR AND THE ROSE, by EVA LINNETTE SOULE Poem Text First Line: A few faded rose-leaves Last Line: And what was that college man's name? Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Schools; Students THE SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight is not more bewildering Last Line: Like some vast bubble blown of summer noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Summer; Nightmares THE SERF'S SECRET, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a secret, such a one Last Line: To meet the upland sun. Subject(s): Flowers THE SERMON OF THE ROSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilful we are, in our infirmity Last Line: The smoldering sweetness of a dead red rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Roses; Sermons THE SHADOW OF A FLOWER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a dream of olden days Last Line: -- shadows of buried flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SHEPHERD TO THE FLOWERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sweet violets, love's paradise, that spread" Last Line: "then may remorse, in pitying of my smart, / dry up my tears, and dwell within her heart" Subject(s): Flowers;remorse THE SICK ROSE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O rose, thou art sick! Last Line: Does thy life destroy. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Despair; Flowers; Mythology; Roses; Worms; Dead, The THE SINGER'S MUSE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought in these to make her kitchen sweet Last Line: "her bashful singer and her servant boy." Subject(s): Babylon; Dublin, Ireland; Fame; Flowers; Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Sex; Spring; Troy; Reputation THE SISTERS, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: There are two sisters, one is a rose Last Line: Ribbon fades on the sapped stem. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Sisters THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 30, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And she hath placed a red rose in her hair Last Line: The freshest, fairest flower the dews begem. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Love; Roses THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 91, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: This fragrant herb it forced upon the tongue Last Line: Between her rival's lips the lady set. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Love THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 94, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Now toward the dawn they glide with love-lock'd hands Last Line: Rob of one charm the sweet-lip'd violet? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses THE SOLITARY ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy rose, red rose, that bloomest lonely Last Line: O happy rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Flowers; Night; Nightingales; Roses; Bedtime THE SOLSEQUIUM, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like [lak] as the dumb solsequium, with care Last Line: Fareweill, with patience perforce till day. Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1) Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Mythology - Classical; Sun THE SONG OF FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a bird but a living flower? Last Line: The song of a flow'r-soul hears! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nature; Singing & Singers; Soul THE SONG OF WERNER, by JOSEPH VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O roman maid! Why do you try Last Line: My lady sleeping in the tomb. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 4, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For me, the eldest and the loveliest god Last Line: Leaving his outworn body for my food. Subject(s): Bodies; Flowers; Soul; Women THE SOUL OF THINGS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day by day the soul of things / up its countless ladders springs Last Line: Up its countless ladders springs. Subject(s): Flowers; Soul THE SPECTRE OF THE ROSE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Your silken fringed lids unclose Last Line: So blessed all kings may envy it.' Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SPECTURE OF THE ROSE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those marble-lidded eyes unclose, / wake from thy sleep's angelic trance! Last Line: "e'en kings might envy for its bliss!" Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SPELL OF THE ROSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mean to build a hall anon Last Line: Too late to tell me so! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SPLENDOR OF LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, rare as the splendor of lilies Last Line: To carpet a path for our king. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE SPRING, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Why, gentle spring, why hide away Last Line: "even as now they still are thine." Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Pleasure; Spring THE STAR AND THE WATER LILY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun stepped down from his golden throne Last Line: And sank in the stormy tide. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Stars THE STAR'S SONG, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower! Flower, why repine? Last Line: In heaven, as a star. Subject(s): Flowers THE STATUE OF THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH. MERAN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is seated by the river Last Line: Where all rivers wend their way. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Soul; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUBVERTED FLOWER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She drew back; he was calm: Last Line: And drew her backward home Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Flowers; Male-female Relations THE SUMMER IS ENDED (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathe no more lilies in my hair Last Line: Only a little while. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Summer; Dead, The THE SUNSHINE OF THE GODS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall sunder the fetters Last Line: The hour of perfect song! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers THE SWEET-BRIAR, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet-briar flowering Last Line: Held the trusting heart of a little child. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Daisies; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE THORN THAT GUARDS, by T. G. P. Poem Text First Line: Far in the corner on the stairs Last Line: "you forget what american beauties cost." Subject(s): Flowers THE THOUGHT OF DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since when her faithful eyes, to which I yield Last Line: Whose thought brings comfort to my heart again. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Eyes; Flowers; Hearts; Dead, The THE THREE ROSES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the buds began to burst Last Line: Mute the tongue, and closed the eye. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE TIME OF ROSES, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, it is the time of roses! Last Line: Crown me with the rose of love! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Nature Of; Perfume; Roses THE TOUCH-ME-NOT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So ticklish is my skin Last Line: And bid you touch-me-not. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers THE TRAILING ARBUTUS, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darlings of the forest! Last Line: And live in the dear woods where my lost childhood played. Subject(s): Arbutus; Flowers; Mayflowers THE TRAILING ARBUTUS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago, in the sweet spring weather Last Line: We will hunt for spring's sweet blooms together. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Arbutus; Flowers; Spring; Mayflowers THE TRANSLATED WAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art like unto a flower Last Line: So fine and clean and pure. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Flowers; Translating & Interpreting; Virtue THE TRENCHES, SELS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in canada now that spring / is merry Last Line: Proud the life that shields you from the flaming wind of war! Subject(s): Canada; Flowers; Spring; Canadians THE TRIUMPH OF TIME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tender, delicate flowers Last Line: "and conquers all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Future; Love; Time; Dead, The THE TULIP AND THE LILY, SELECTION, by JAMES BARCLAY Poem Text First Line: To these proud taunts and more beside Last Line: "perfumes e'en cloe's fragrant breath." Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Lilies; Beekeeping; Bugs THE TUNE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I played a crazy tune Last Line: And the same waters flow. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers THE TWA GOWANS, by JESSIE D. M. MORTON Poem Text First Line: Twa wee gowans bloom'd on a gowanie lea Last Line: An' the bonnie wee floorie sune wither'd awa. Subject(s): Flowers THE TWO FLOWERS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Helen wore it in her hair Last Line: No little flower so holy anywhere! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE TWO ROSES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These roses take, which rival hues invest Last Line: The red-rose there love's victory bespeaking? Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The THE TWO ROSES, by JOSEPH MARIE SOULARY Poem Text First Line: Yestreen beneath the greenery Last Line: "the farmer's boy that drives the herds." Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Love; Roses; Childhood THE UNHEARD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One in the musical throng Last Line: The song in her heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Music & Musicians; Roses; Singing & Singers; Violins THE UNRETURNING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, knowing not eld, in thy youth all / divine Last Line: But not from the dark come my darlings to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Mothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE USE OF FLOWERS, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God might have bade the earth bring forth Last Line: Will care much more for him! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees THE VALLEY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fairy-like valley, with grim mountains / hiding it Last Line: And scent of the wild flowers filling the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Rest; Valleys THE VALLEY OF PALE BLUE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a hidden valley a pale blue flower grows Last Line: My soul slowly, slowly, slowly, will sink to its ultimate hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Nothingness; Salvation; Youth; Nightmares; Nihilism; Voids THE VEIL: THE FLOWER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horizon to horizon, lies outspread Last Line: He sought companion in earth's dwelling-place. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Flowers 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 WALL-FLOWER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wall-flower - the wall-flower Last Line: Thou art the flower for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones THE WALL-FLOWER, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Text First Line: O wall-flower! Or ever thy bright leaves fade Last Line: Be its bridal torch! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Spring; Dead, The THE WARS OF THE ROSES, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, white, white brother, tossing in the garden! Last Line: So we whisper, so we shake, so we dream o' nights Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; War Of The Roses THE WATER CROWVOOT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O small-feac'd flow'r that now dost bloom Last Line: Fair small-feäc'd flow'r o' the frome. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooks; Flowers; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WATER LILY, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O star on the breast of the river! Last Line: "they rise -- to the sweetest place." Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE WATER LILY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Beautiful thou art Last Line: As from a shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE WATER LILY FAIRY, by MARGUERITE FRANZISKA ERNST Poem Text First Line: There's an alabaster palace Last Line: And blossoms of delight. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies THE WATER-LILY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence, o fragrant form of light Last Line: Left her garment in the tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Plants; Trees; Planting; Planters THE WATERED LILIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The master stood in his garden Last Line: To water his flowers again Subject(s): Flowers;lilies;religion; Theology THE WAY OF LOVE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly loves the rose Last Line: Of another, a redder rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE WEATHER-COCK POINTS SOUTH, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put your leaves aside Last Line: Thrust upon by a softly-swinging wind. Subject(s): Flowers THE WEDDING OF THE ROSE AND THE LOTOS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wide pacific waters Last Line: To wed the red red rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Flowers; Lotus; Roses; Lotos THE WEE FLOWER OF THE HEATHER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Thou pretty wee flower, humble thing Last Line: Safe seated at the dark rock's feet. Subject(s): Flowers THE WEE WILD ROSE, by ROBERT TENNANT Poem Text First Line: The wee wild rose, the sweet wild rose, the soft winds fondly kiss it Last Line: But there's a realm above the sky that death's dark wing ne'er shadeth. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE WEE YELLOW PRIMROSE, by ROBERT TENNANT Poem Text First Line: The wee yellow primrose, sweet child o' the spring Last Line: And lessons worth learning frae them I shall learn. Subject(s): Flowers; Primroses THE WHITE FLAG, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my love two roses Last Line: The white rose meant surrender. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE WHITE FLOWER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In father's garden there silently grows Last Line: Now fills my wounded breast. Subject(s): Flowers; Love THE WHITE ROSE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose of the desert! Thou art to me Last Line: Of glory, like the pure white rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Leaves; Roses; Smells; Thorns; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE WHITE ROSE O' JUNE, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bricht sun, and the soft simmer showers Last Line: And may he that should wear it wear scotland's auld croun! Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Scotland - Relations With England THE WILD FLOWER'S SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wanderd the forest Last Line: But I met with scorn Variant Title(s): "as I Wandered""; Subject(s): Bible; Disappointment; Flowers; Mythology THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair flower, that dost so comely grow Last Line: The frail duration of a flower. Subject(s): Flowers; Honeysuckle THE WILD ROSE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High climbs june's wild rose Last Line: The clouds of an evetide's wreath. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; June; Roses THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snowdrop is the prophet of the flowers Last Line: Nature's most beautiful and perfect flower. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Nature; Roses THE WILD ROSE COURAGEOUS, by LYDA LAURINE PAGE Poem Text First Line: Undaunted by pitiless scourging Last Line: The wild rose will blossom again. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE WILD ROSE OF PLYMOUTH, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the plymouth shore the wild rose blooms Last Line: Of love and beauty ever to remain. Subject(s): Flowers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Roses THE WIND AND THE ROSE; AN APOLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little red rose bloomed all alone Last Line: "and kill where he meant to cure!" Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: AT THE WINDOW, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vine, vine and eglantine Last Line: Dropt, a flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Flowers THE WINTER FLOWER; A BIRTHDAY OFFERING (FOR MUSIC), by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bloom, beloved flower! Last Line: Of the dull world's caressing. Subject(s): Flowers; Winter THE WITHERED ROSE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, fading rose, a present to my fair Last Line: With water of my tears, or with my blood. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Transience; Sorrow; Sadness; Impermanence THE WOMAN WHO LOOKS FOR HER LOST SISTER SHE SAYS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walks all the time in the heart ward Last Line: ‘no,’ she said, ‘it’s too late for flowers dear.’ Subject(s): Flowers; Sisters THE WOOD-ROSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wordsworth found those beds of daffodil Last Line: Seen, lost and seen, along the reedy brink. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) 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 WORLD, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what a palace rare hast thou created Last Line: And the blood-offering of a grateful heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Tears; Joy; Delight THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is like a star Last Line: Melody, fragrance and fire! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Sleep; Nightmares THE WREATH, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now will I weave white violets Last Line: Upon her scented hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Flowers; Perfume THE WREATH, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child through sunny meadows strolled Last Line: Both fruit and flowers it bore! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE WREATH: TALE OF THE MOORISH BARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earliest beauty of the rose Last Line: Land of hearth and home, aught to liken to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers THE YEAR OF THE ROSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the depths of the green garden-closes Last Line: Over the red rose-land. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses THE YEARS, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Each life is like a changing flower Last Line: And leave rich seeds of memory! Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Memory; Time THE YELLOW CHRYSANTHEMUM, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The golden glory of its heart has entered in to mine Last Line: Happiness such as I have never known is mine. Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers 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 THE YOUNG ROSE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young rose which I gave thee, so dewy and bright Last Line: She'll think the sweet night-bird is courting her still. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Roses THEM FLOWERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take a feller 'at's sick and laid up Last Line: Is a-leakin' -- I'm blamed ef they ain't! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Youth THERE NEVER BLOWS SO RED THE ROSE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As march's catalogs disclose %and yearly I fall prey to Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring THERESE, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rose once pressed against thy lips Last Line: And die upon my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses THESE ARE LILACS, by NIJOLE MILIAUSKAITE Poem Source Last Line: And for me Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs THEY FLY IN THIS PLACE WHERE THEY ARE WHICH IS THE WORLD, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: In the abundant rosery which is the world merely Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THEY KNOW WHEN THE DOSE IS FATAL (OR SO SLIGHT A RUMOR, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: By inhaling but it's brutal Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Poetry And Poets; Roses THEY SAW THE PROBLEM, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do you turn into a flower of the field, Last Line: More than a lifetime to construct that airport Subject(s): Flowers THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 1. DANDELIONS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Around the corolla of dandelions Last Line: That complete moment of surrender Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dandelions; Flowers; Parents; Weeds THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 4. GARDEN, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: We are changed Last Line: Speechless before dawn Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature THINK-ABOUTS, by DAISY MAUD BELLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was very little, and had been put Last Line: "into garlands, and the flowers answer all my ""think-abouts." Subject(s): Flowers; Habits; Thought; Thinking THIS FLOURE IS FAIRE AND FRESCHE OF HEUE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and ever was, and ever shall" Subject(s): Flowers THIS IS A BLOSSOM OF THE BRAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The flower of our lord Variant Title(s): Poem: 945; Poem: 111 Subject(s): Flowers; God THIS MORNING THE DAY CAME UNSTOPPERED NOW AND AGAIN, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: The fizz escaping from the bottles but that's the sound roses make Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses THISTLE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time a lily in a garden- a rich man's Last Line: Remained without knowing christ Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Thistles THISTLEDOWN (SPRING ON THE CAMPAGNE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bloweth like snow / from the grey thistles Last Line: The thistledown. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; Italy; Spring; Italians THISTLEDOWN: 18, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: The flowers take her for an april day Last Line: "my heart and all the flowers sigh, ""alas!" Subject(s): Flowers THORN LEAVES IN MARCH, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking out in the late march midnight Last Line: Sank nearer already, listing toward summer Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Spring; Thorns THORNS OR ROSES, by IRENE L. HANSING Poem Text First Line: Life had only thorns for me Last Line: And find the rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Roses; Thorns THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 6. FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, o pure and lovely forms, again Last Line: Whether the couch be that of life or death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer winds is sniffin' round Last Line: And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips fer me and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THREE DREAMS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that you were dreaming Last Line: Dreamed of you Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Morning; Weeds THREE FATES: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O masquer, are you loth love sleep Last Line: To make the bed for you. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Destiny THREE FLOWERS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herewith I send you three pressed withered flowers Last Line: Guarding his ashes with most lovely eyes. Variant Title(s): With Three Flowers Subject(s): Flowers THREE ROSES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just when the red june roses blow Last Line: My world was gained and lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; June; Roses THREE SONGS OF LOVE (CHINESE FASHION): 2. RIVER SONG, by WILLIAM A. BEATTY Poem Text First Line: Like you, sweet bud Last Line: Sunlight. Subject(s): Flowers; Rivers THREE THINGS, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three things filled this day for me Last Line: Wondering why they wondered. Subject(s): Buttercups; Cows; Flowers THY BIRTHDAY, by CLAUDE A. BARR Poem Text First Line: Rememberest the lilies-of-the-valley, fair my love Last Line: Praise to thee, o faithful keeper of the fire, fair my love. Subject(s): Birthdays; Flowers; Love TIGER-LILY, by RAQUEL CHALFI Poem Source First Line: One dakness %I was a tiger-lily Last Line: All that a plant can, all that a beast can %one night Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies TIME OF ROSES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clean flows the wind as from its grand source flowing Last Line: At first that this year grass has brought forth roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Flowers; Landscape; Roses; English TIME'S GARDEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Years are the seedlings which we care- / less sow Last Line: The year you gave, beloved, your rosemary. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love TO - (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Music, when soft voices die Last Line: Love itself shall slumber on. Variant Title(s): Music;memory Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Roses; Bereavement TO -, WITH A ROSE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked my heart to stay Last Line: I send a rose unto a rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO A BEAUTIFUL VINE AND A ROSE-BUSH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou fair expanding mossy-rose Last Line: Thy straying buds of brigthest red. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO A BUNCH OF LILAC, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Is it the april springing Last Line: And long but to love, and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hope; Life; Lilacs; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Optimism TO A CHEROKEE ROSE, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy one white leaf is open to the sky Last Line: A virgin dowered with a heart of gold. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO A CHILD OF FIVE YEARS OLD, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest flower, all flowers excelling Last Line: Evergreens! Which ne'er decay. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Flowers; Nature TO A CHRYSANTHEMUM, by JOHN ANGUS THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Thou beauteous flower, with heart of gold Last Line: Only last night. Subject(s): Flowers TO A CLOISTRESS, by JUAN DE TASIS Poem Source First Line: Thou who hast fled from life's enchanted Last Line: Now heaven's bright harbor opens to thy %gaze! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring; Thorns TO A COLLECTION OF PASTORALS, by FRANKLIN BALDWIN WILEY Poem Text First Line: I plucked some simple flowers in the early morning hours Last Line: May scorn to sneer at them or the garden where they grew. Subject(s): Flowers TO A CONSERVATORY FLOWER, by ALPHONSO GERALD NEWCOMER Poem Text First Line: Ho, thou art a tardy comer Last Line: At her feet! Subject(s): Flowers TO A DAISY, by JOHN HARTLEY Poem Text First Line: Ah! I'm feared thou's come too sooin Last Line: Of some use if but to thee! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers TO A DAISY, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slight as thou art, thou art enough to hide Last Line: From god's side even of such a simple thing? Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers TO A DYING ROSE, by SARAH ORSHANSKY Poem Text First Line: Fading petal of a dying rose! Last Line: The wind bloweth past . . . A sigh! . . . Good-bye. Subject(s): Flowers; Mortality; Roses TO A FLOWER, by CORRINNE M. ARTHUR Poem Text First Line: A fragile little bud upon a stem Last Line: Earth's queen of beauty you were born to be. Subject(s): Flowers 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 FRIEND, WHO SENT ME FLOWERS, WHEN CONFINED BY ILLNESS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While sickness still my step detains Last Line: Shall soften half the winter's gloom! Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Sickness; Illness TO A GERANIUM WHICH FLOWERED DURING THE WINTER WRITTEN IN AUTUMN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Native of afric's arid lands Last Line: And downy leaves of vernal hue. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums TO A JUNE ROSE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O royal rose! The roman dress'd Last Line: O royal rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO A LADY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lady! Can I sing of flowers Last Line: This precious flower, true love's last token. Subject(s): Flowers; Madeira (island) TO A LADY FOR A NOSEGAY, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who does not love a flower? Last Line: An emblem of the giver. Subject(s): Flowers 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 LADY, WITH SOME PAINTED FLOWERS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers to the fair: to you these flowers I bring Last Line: Your best, your sweetest empire is _ to please. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Flowers TO A LADY; WITH FLOWERS FROM THE ROMAN WALL, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take these flowers which, purple waving Last Line: Wild-flower wreaths for beauty's hair. Subject(s): Flowers TO A LILY, by JAMES MATHEWES LEGARE Poem Text First Line: Go bow thy head in gentle spite Last Line: And make thy leaf a stain. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies TO A LLANGOLLEN ROSE, THE DAY AFTER IT HAD BEEN GIVEN BY MISS PONSONBY, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft blushing flower! My bosom grieves Last Line: Which tears it from so sweet a home! Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses 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 PERSIAN ROSE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the world's garden close Last Line: Neath those hot skies. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO A POT OF HELIOTROPE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Shake out your purple petals Last Line: Hung in the breeze to blow. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heliotropes; Roses TO A PRESSED FLOWER (FOUND IN AN OLD LATIN DICTIONARY), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Forgotten bloom that years ago was buried Last Line: I to a busy world of joy and tears. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness TO A PRESSED ROSE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Lovely faded rose Last Line: A lovely faded rose. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time TO A PRIMROSE, by EDNA S. CODDINGTON Poem Text First Line: Prim little primrose Last Line: By thee on the sill. Subject(s): Flowers; Primroses TO A ROSE, by LOUISE LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: Layer on layer, your mute perfection grew Last Line: O rose of perfect beauty, ever new? Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Susan Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO A ROSE, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, rose, and in her golden hair Last Line: Shall place your body in the tomb! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO A ROSE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou new-born rose, emerging from the dew Last Line: Love to mankind, and confidence in god. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Aphrodite; Flowers; Love; Mankind; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Human Race TO A ROSE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast not toiled, sweet rose Last Line: Its shadow falls alike on thee and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO A ROSE, by MRS. O. O. TUCKER Poem Text First Line: Oh lovely rose Last Line: As your lovely blossoms fair. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO A ROSE DEAD AT MORNING, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O purple blossoms, rained upon Last Line: And sheds her song is even as you! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO A ROSEBUD, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little timid rose Last Line: Lo, thou art dead! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Dead, The TO A SHASTA LILY, by ORVILLE WILLIS JONES Poem Text First Line: In god's cathedral of the open wood Last Line: Like you, with sure feet march to purple age. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies TO A 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 WATER LILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dream, dream / perfume-laden one!" Last Line: Drowsy in dream! Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;lilies;perfume;sleep; Nightmares TO A WATER-LILY, by C. WENTWORTH Poem Text First Line: Thin ivory petals upon dark blue waters Last Line: Between the hills. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Romance TO A WILD ROSE ON A INDIAN GRAVE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the pasture where the grasses are the first to / herald spring Last Line: The good shall live forever, and the pure shall never die. Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Flowers; Legends; Roses TO A WITHERED ROSE, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy span of life was all too short Last Line: To live and die a rose? Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Roses; Trees 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 ADOLPHE GAIFFE, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young man free from melancholy Last Line: Words! Words! Come gather roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring; Wisdom; Youth TO ALISON, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ghouls and ghosts shall science lay? Not ours! Last Line: Their ghosts turn flowers; like angels they array them. Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; Hearts; Supernatural; Time TO AN ELDER POET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be able Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Old Age; Flowers TO APOLLO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luminous master of song and sunbeams Last Line: Harlots and publicans enter in. Subject(s): Apollo; Flowers; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Soul TO BE AMONG ROSES I A VERY BAD WALTZER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO BE AMONG THE ROSES, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Being any rose in the body of the singable able to begin Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses TO CHARLES LAMB, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not thine to tread the midmost marl of hell Last Line: These were thy gift, and these outlast the skies. Subject(s): Flowers; God; Hell; Love; Mothers; Muses TO DAFFODILS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair daffodils, we weep to see / you haste away so soon Last Line: Ne'er to be found againe. Variant Title(s): To Daffadills Subject(s): Daffodils; Flowers; Life Change Events; Transience; Impermanence TO DAISIES, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, drops of gold in whitening flame Last Line: Bursting its cerement. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers TO DAISIES, NOT TO SHUT TOO SOON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night Last Line: Itself to live or die. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers 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 EMILIA VIVIANI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madonna, wherefore hast thou sent to me Last Line: Health like a heap of embers soon to fade. Subject(s): Flowers TO F. H., by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little the world will heed Last Line: Some image of my face. Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs TO FLOWERS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time of life, I grac't ye with my verse Last Line: Weeping, shall make ye flourish all the yeere. Subject(s): Flowers TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunned in the south, and here today Last Line: To tell man whence you came. Subject(s): Flowers; Italy; Italians TO GEORGE H. BOKER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you the homage of this book I bring Last Line: A heart, dear friend, that never falsely beat. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Boker, George Henry (1823-1890); Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Seasons TO HELEN KELLER, by THOMAS NUNAN Poem Text First Line: A rose unfolding in the sun Last Line: And radiates a light divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Roses; Soul; Stars TO HELEN KELLER, by JOHN VARNEY Poem Text First Line: Her eyes, miniature mirrors Last Line: Her hands touch hands! Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love TO HILDA OF HER ROSES, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enough has been said about roses Last Line: Ledwidge, even! Subject(s): Flowers; Ledwidge, Francis (1891-1917); Poetry & Poets; Roses TO J. B., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within an old world, classic vase Last Line: That triumphs over time. Subject(s): Flowers; Time TO JAMES FORBES ON HIS BRINGING ME FLOWERS FROM VAUCLUSE, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spoils of consecrated bowers Last Line: Nor, like my verse is born to die. Subject(s): Flowers; Forbes, James (1749-1819); Preservation TO JOHN KEATS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,' Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO LULU, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only love Last Line: Like spokes of the same wheel! Subject(s): Flowers; God; Love; Pain; Rain; Sleep; Soul; Suffering; Misery TO M.A., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Had I landor's power and pen Last Line: But kiss you on the lips. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TO MARY ROSSETTI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were born in the spring Last Line: In green and in flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Spring TO MARYGOLDS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give way, and be ye ravisht by the sun Last Line: And as he shuts, close up to maids again. Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds TO MEADOWS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have been fresh and green Last Line: Your poor estates alone. Variant Title(s): Honeysuckle: Sweetness Of Disposition;to Meddowes Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO MISS RAWLINSON, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the many flowers you brought me Last Line: Was the blossom of the may. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Flowers; May (month) TO MISTRESS ROSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose by any other name? Last Line: "that sets our hearts aflame!" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO MOLLY, by LILLIAN S. RING Poem Text First Line: You are like a flower of two colors Last Line: The seed of death. Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Nuns TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: DEDICATION, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: It is somewhat like painting the lily Last Line: Of thoughts which are portrayed by you. Subject(s): Beauty; Character; Flowers; Lilies TO MRS, WILLIAM HAYES DANA I DEDICATE THIS BOOK .. FOR HER ROSE GARDEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You took a piece of earth and made it fair Last Line: A coronal of beauty for tributing Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses TO MRS. ANN FLAXMAN, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little flower grew in a lonely vale Last Line: Tis your own fault if you dont flourish now Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Mythology TO MURIEL: AT THE OPERA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses and rose-buds, red and white Last Line: But if the rose were muriel? Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO MY CLASS: ON CERTAIN FRUITS AND FLOWERS SENT ... SICKNESS, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale Last Line: Baltimore, christmas, 1880. Subject(s): Flowers; Fruit; Gifts & Giving TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE ROSE, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the honey drops of pearly showers Last Line: Heaven put his hand forth, and did glean.' Subject(s): Flowers; Mourning; Roses; Bereavement TO MY FIOR-DI-LISA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose is love's own flower, and love's no less Last Line: In the deep-hearted rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses TO MY ITALIAN PERGOLA REVISITED, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shaded avenue of bloom Last Line: That your glowing hearts are mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Nature; Roses; Spring TO MY ROSE, by ALEKSEY MERZLYAKOV Poem Source First Line: Bright queen of flowers, o! Rose, gay blooming Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO ONE WHO SPOKE OF ETERNAL THINGS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! For the shadow of a flower Last Line: More than eternity. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Future Life; Trees; Worship; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO ONE WITH A SPRING NOSEGAY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, silvia, here I send you these spring flowers Last Line: From a true heart their greenest leaves among. Subject(s): Flowers TO ROSE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eat, drink and be merry, he said Last Line: Raise up the ghost of a rose Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TO SWINBURNE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poet! Thou art to me a faery king Last Line: Sea, wind and sun, the gods who rule the earth. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean TO TERESA, by JOSE DE ESPRONCEDA Poem Source First Line: Visions of days outworn, why do ye grow Last Line: Who recks of one more corpse laid low in earth? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory TO THE BEES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh whither, honey-bees Last Line: My life that nourish Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Kisses; Life; Lips; Spring; Beekeeping; Bugs TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yea! All the beauty of sorrow, like a crown Last Line: Immortals thralled for ever to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO THE COWS LIP, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more thou flower of childish fame Last Line: No bud clings to its withering stem %to hope for springs return Subject(s): Flowers TO THE DAISY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth from rock to rock I went Last Line: Art nature's favourite. Variant Title(s): To The Daisy Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers TO THE DAISY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With little here to do or see Last Line: Of thy meek nature! Variant Title(s): To The Daisy Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers TO THE DAISY (3), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright flower! Whose home is everywhere Last Line: In peace fulfilling. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers TO THE DANDELION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way Last Line: On all these living pages of god's book. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds TO THE END, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are lilies for her sisters Last Line: And leaning from the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Death; Flowers; Heaven; Lilies; Love; Dead, The; Paradise 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 HOUSTONIA CERULEA, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often, modest flower Last Line: The joy that peace imparts. Subject(s): Flowers TO THE ROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, happy rose, and interwove Last Line: And burn thee 'up, as well as I. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days! Last Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Legends, Irish; Roses; Irish TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 7. THE AZALEA, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, where the sun shines first Last Line: Sweet to myself that am so sweet to you!' Subject(s): Azaleas; Flowers TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 3. ARBOR VITAE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With honeysuckle, over-sweet, festoon'd Last Line: And eats its dead-dog off a golden dish. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening TO THE URANIAN APHRODITE, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My days pass wreathed in dreams while time's dim room Last Line: Hope's rainbow gleamed through foam of troubled seas. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Fate; Flowers; Love; Mythology - Classical; Time; Destiny 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 THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Last Line: You may forever tarry. Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO THIS OLD STUMP, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: To this old stump of a plum tree Last Line: There may or may not be a new flower Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Spring 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 TO VIRGINIA, by HENRY ATKINS Poem Text First Line: Spring and the daffodil again Last Line: Thy valentine. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Spring TO W. B. YEATS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathless of laurel plucked by delian springs Last Line: Where thy own rose reigns queen of all the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Temples; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Paradise; Mosques TO WILLIAM COWPER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never hath gentler soul or purer heart Last Line: To thy meek sons, or make thy sages kind. Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Soul; Destiny; Paradise TO-MORROW, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Myriad rambler roses Last Line: I'll linger until you bloom. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TODAY A PINK ROSE IN A VASE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tomorrow, petals Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Nature TOKEN, by CHARLES J. SCHUSTER Poem Text First Line: I paced the grove an hour / my spirit ill at Last Line: In that sequestered spot. Subject(s): Flowers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AMONG THE FERNS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay among the ferns Last Line: Death shall change as the light 'twixt moonset and dawn. Subject(s): Equality; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SQUINANCY-WORT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I done? Last Line: Perhaps in his infinite mercy god will remove this man! Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Sin; Male-female Relations TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE TRYSTING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far over the hills, ten miles, in the cloudless summer morning Last Line: And gains her presence at the feet of god. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TOWN AND COUNTRY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers are blooming in the woods, the Last Line: "when the sun goes down, if I can chase myself to town, to see the movie shows." Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Towns; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TRAGEDIES: 11, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: In the middle of my garden-bed Last Line: And die along with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses TRAGEDIES: 12, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: In the warm wax-light one lounged at the spinet Last Line: And all the sweet while they were fading away. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Moon; Pleasure; Roses TRAGEDIES: 2, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: She reach'd a rose-bud from the tree Last Line: The worst is over when we die! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The TRAINED FLOWERS: WILD GRASSES, by MIAO HUI Poem Source First Line: When the mouth smiles Last Line: Garden flowers and wild grasses are just the same. %others speak out Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Zen Buddhism TRANSITION, by RAYMOND R. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: Where'er we turn, the specter waits Last Line: That all things work with joy, and sleep at close of day. Subject(s): Children; Death; Flowers; Friendship; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood; Dead, The TRANSLUCENT FINGERS, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Translucent fingers on the yellow keys Last Line: To live among the other waxen flowers. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Old Age TRANSPLANTING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Watching hands transplanting Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening TRANSPLANTING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching hands transplanting Last Line: The whole flower extending outward, %stretching and reaching Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening TRAVELLER'S JOY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Traveller, traveller, tramping by Last Line: Somewhere a lass looks out for a boy: %luck be with you, and traveller's joy! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons TRIOLET: THOSE VIOLETS BLUE, by H. W. BANKS Poem Text First Line: Those violets blue on my lady's breast Last Line: Nestling there in sweet content. Subject(s): Breasts; Flowers TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 8. THE LAST PILGRIMAGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough of ease, o love, enough of light Last Line: And all things born took comfort from the sun Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Roses; Tristram And Isolde TRUE GIFT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a young maiden, in the morning air Last Line: Than heaped-up flowers no thoughtful care disposes. Subject(s): Flowers; Orchards; Roses; Spring; Youth TRUE LOVE'S REWARD, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Love, walking in the garden of the king Last Line: And lo! The king made him an honored guest. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Love; Love - Nature Of TRYSTING, by EDNA DENHAM RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: Oh, mystery lake, and mystery night, and tender silver stars Last Line: As I remember our trysting night when beauty and wonder stood still. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Togetherness TUBEROSES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tuberose you left me yesterday Last Line: Forswear to-day, o man, and take to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TULIP, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Our stalks are very straight and tall Last Line: Now in your gardens we abide- %and aren't you glad we came? Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons 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 TULIPS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: They are the breathing that passes Last Line: Over and over for all our days Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Herbs; Nature; Tulips TWA PU'D FLOWERS, by ROBERT FORD Poem Text First Line: I pu'd a flower in yonder vale Last Line: "my violet, that droop'd, and died." Subject(s): Flowers TWELVE SONNETS: 3. THE VALLEY ROSES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: And have we left the roses far behind? Last Line: Than all the wild scents of the hot low lands. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TWINS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April, on whose wings Last Line: Now seems too divine. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Twins TWO, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory of you is - a blue spear of flower Last Line: And they cover you. Subject(s): Flowers TWO CUTWORMS, by FLORENCE DAZEY REED Poem Text First Line: I had a beautiful pansy Last Line: And whispered of hope. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening TWO EASTER LILIES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the reed of scorn Last Line: Her lord to greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; The Resurrection TWO RED ROSES, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish they could live forever Last Line: These roses my darling brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TWO RED ROSES ACROSS THE MOON, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a lady lived in a hall Last Line: Two red roses across the moon. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses TWO ROSES, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were you to blame, child love Last Line: To him. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses UN BUQUE DE FLORES, by DAVID HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Especifically for you / salamente para ti %I will climb the tallest tree Last Line: Yogurt ice cream on your table %solamente para ti / especifically for you! Subject(s): Flowers; Love 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 GROUND, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between a garden and old tomb Last Line: "yea, we the rose entomb." Subject(s): Flowers; Roses UNDER THE ROSE, by CATHERINE Y. GLEN Poem Text First Line: Last night the blush rose clustered Last Line: Under the rose! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses 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 UNDERCURRENTS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Mrs. Hawkins! What a perfect rose! Last Line: (green waters—and blue sky and golden light!) Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Summer UNIVERSE OF THE ROSE, by TADA CHIMAKO Poem Source First Line: Each of these microscopic points and lines is in itself a complete world Last Line: My bones will be adorned with the rose Subject(s): Flowers; Roses UNTIL THE DAWN, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: A lonely grave hard by the prison wall Last Line: Of earth and sorrow pale before its light. Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Mourning; Nurses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement UNTO THE PERFECT DAY, by WILLIS BOYD ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A morning-glory bud, entangled fast Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories UP CLOVER LANE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Up clover lane and daisy street Last Line: Touching with my head the sky Subject(s): Flowers UPON A VIRGIN KISSING A ROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas but a single rose Last Line: Not so much rose, as wreathe. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses UPON ROSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a lawne, then skyes more cleare Last Line: Gave them their ever flourishing. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses UPROOTED UPROOTER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: By the uprooting window Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Roses VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1886, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's latest snowflake is the snowdrop flower Last Line: My pleasure and my treasure o blessed mother mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Life; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALLEY LILIES, by NELLIE S. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Month of bold winds, you are stealing the snow Last Line: Do not uncover them, march, till the last. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies VARIATIONS: 17, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tear the pink rose petal by petal Last Line: Will light again the same. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses VEINS OF OTHER FLOWERS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Without a syllable Variant Title(s): Poem: 811; Poem: 79 Subject(s): Flowers VENILIA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the faint shores of the foamless gulf Last Line: When on the gay wind swims the yellow leaf. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Circe; Flowers; Lilies; Silence VENUS IN A GARDEN, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at early morning Last Line: Gathered from the roses red. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Love; Mythology; Roses VERMONT WILD FLOWERS IN AUGUST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild flowers all vermonters love Last Line: The chickory and lady's lace. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Mountain Life - Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (1), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love, they say is like a rose Last Line: Tis mutual love the gift bestows Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (2), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the lab'rer in his sunday clothes Last Line: And rouses joyous at the welcome close. Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (3), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Never before did I quarrel with a rose Last Line: When I lie my head on welcome pillows Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (4), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning I woke from a quite repose Last Line: If I write any longer my verse will be prose Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses VIA DOLOROSA: 2. DELIVERANCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, fair death, sole comforter and sweet Last Line: Denied him: darkness hath unsealed his eyes.' Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Night; Roses; Dead, The; Bedtime VIGIL, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: The crimson roses burn and glow Last Line: Or still the crimson roses glow. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses VIGIL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flower/then the flower Subject(s): Mothers; Illness; Flowers VILLANELLE, by RICHARD MOUNT Poem Text First Line: I wonder, will the guelder-roses bloom Last Line: When you and I have heard the trump of doom. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses VILLANELLE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies whisper in the park Last Line: Wan ghosts that haunt the fragrant dark. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies 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 VIOLET: MODESTY, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For hamlet, and the trifling of his favour Last Line: The perfume and suppliance of a minute; %no more Subject(s): Flowers 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 ON LON HALVERSON'S GRAVE, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: No one has visited you for years Last Line: Spreading like pure light Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Heaven 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 VIOLIN SONGS: THE FLOWER-ANGELS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of old, with goodwill from the skies Last Line: In flowers even read his mind. Subject(s): Angels; Flowers; God VIOLIN SONGS: WILD FLOWERS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Content primroses, / with hearts at rest in your thick leaves' soft care Last Line: Of a past, age-long somnolence ! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Nature; Dead, The VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were yesterday polemons natales kept Last Line: With satten sleeues hath grac'd his sackcloth sute. Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Names; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect VIRGINIA, by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: I know not how her trees compare Last Line: Me, resurrection's spring! Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Trees; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain) VISIONS: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dream both strange and sad to see Last Line: Headlong I fell, and -- woke from sleep. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Time; Nightmares VISIONS: 4. A ROSE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose, as fair as ever saw the north Last Line: The fairest blossom of the garden dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Variant Title(s): Vision Of The Rose;vision: 5 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses VISIONS: 5, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in a valley, by a forest's side Last Line: So glorious flowers to live in such a shade. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Flowers VOTIVE TABLETS: THE GOOD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The good's the flower to earth already given -- Last Line: The beautiful, on earth sows flowers from heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Flowers W I S M R DO I SAY EROS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Subject(s): Flowers; Roses 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 WAIFS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Between the road and garden bed Last Line: And bore it home triumphantly—ah, then, it knew at last! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; September WAIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know, o faltering heart Last Line: Press bravely on -- and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Night; Waiting; Bedtime WAITING FOR THE MORNING GLORIES, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each year, / no matter what seeds, out of Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories WAITING FOR THE MORNING GLORIES, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each year, %no matter what seeds, out of Last Line: With its beauty. Something final %besides just death Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories WALKING FLOWERS AT BERLIN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Under the lindens, my dear friend Last Line: Each neck, how swanlike it seems! Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Flowers; Women WALL-FLOWER, by JOHN LANGHORNE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Why loves my flower, the sweetest flower Subject(s): Death; Flowers WANDERER'S BOUQUET, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: Once one year, and I don't know when Last Line: Where the hand of a new wanderer extends the bouquet, %is the child coming to receive it? Subject(s): Flowers; Smells; Wanderers And Wandering WAR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are not the hours Last Line: Not worth it! -- of one torn and martyred one! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; War; Optimism; Suffering; Misery 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 WARPED FLOWER, by SHEILA BARBOUR Poem Text First Line: Twisted and pale, oh passionate one Last Line: Upon you set. Subject(s): Flowers WARUM SIND DENN DIE ROSEN SO BLASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest, canst thou tell me why Last Line: That thou forsakest me? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WASH DAY, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it rained while you slept! Wakeful Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening WASH DAY, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it rained while you slept! Wakeful Last Line: You'll laugh, but I feel it - %some power has gone from the sun Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening WATCHING THE FLOWERS, by PO-TZU T'ING Poem Source First Line: Some prefer peach blossoms - swollen, lush Last Line: And by whom? Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Zen Buddhism WATER LILIES, by G. W. D. Poem Text First Line: The hours are water lilies Last Line: Unutterably dear! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love WATER LILIES, by IBN HAMDIS Poem Text First Line: Drink by the pool Last Line: Their tongues of flame. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies WATER LILIES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you have forgotten water lilies floating Last Line: And the shadow of mountains will not fall on your heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies WATER LILIES; A FAIRY SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come away, elves! While the dew is sweet Last Line: And the life of the lily may not be long. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Lilies; Elves WATER-LILIES, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water-lilies on the meadow stream Last Line: In dangerous deeps, yet out of danger's way. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies WATER-LILY, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lily floated white and red Last Line: But beauty is its own reward, %being a form of peace Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies WATERING IMPATIENS, by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Looking up as if to ask heaven for signs Subject(s): Flowers WATERLILIES AND JAPANESE BRIDGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is the drowsy girl who rows 'between the sleeping Last Line: "-is it from him? Or around him? His old man's forehead / Subject(s): Bridges; Flowers; Japan; Japanese WATERLILIES AND JAPANESE BRIDGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is the drowsy girl who rows 'between the sleeping Last Line: - is it from him? Or around him? His old man's forehead %garlanded Subject(s): Bridges; Flowers; Japan WE IN THE SHAPE OF A WET FEATHER, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: From the springs, he said, set forth Last Line: Circular shadow on the springs, he said, a star bait in %flames Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Rain; Spring WEBLESS AUGUST SPIDERS, by CYNTHIA SUE PEDERSON Poem Source First Line: Hang from liquid silk Last Line: While crickets crowd out %any strand of silence Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening WEED PULLER, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the concrete benches Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening WEED PULLER, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the concrete benches Last Line: Crawling on all fours, %alive, in a slippery grave Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening WEEDS, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: The lawn is filled with dandelions Last Line: And take advantage of this market. %'cause he wants to buy some weed Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds WEEDS, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She planted marigolds because they kept Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Weeds WHAT A DEAD MAN SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what a dead man said to me Last Line: That the voice of the dead man spoke to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Flowers; Roses; Secrets; Cadavers WHAT I LEARN WEEDING, by KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN Poem Source First Line: A dandelion root can grow two feet long Last Line: And sunburst of maddened flower! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Weeds WHAT SAPPHO WOULD HAVE SAID .. LEAP CURED INSTEAD OF KILLING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, love, that having found a heart Last Line: Fill me and make me wholly thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Hate; Hearts; Love; Time WHAT SOLITUDE WHEN YOU REFUSED TO SPIT ON ME YOUR BUTTOCKS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Will be atttttously more complicated more uncertain going into trance Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses WHAT YOU'RE TEACHING ME, by RON SCHREIBER Poem Source First Line: I already knew the principles of a perennial garden Last Line: & listening attentivelty to what they say %even if they don't use words Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening WHAT'S THE MATTER, ROSE, by FLORENCE CASSEN MAYERS Poem Source First Line: Our old aunt rose Last Line: She knows what gertrude stein said a rose is Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening WHEN A BUTTERFLY SEES A FLOWER, by SONG-I Poem Source Last Line: Which must not come again Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Hearts; Insects; Love WHEN DAISIES BLOOM, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon field is white with daisies Last Line: We will meet, my sweetheart, then. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers WHEN I AM ASKED, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The only thing that would grieve with me Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Poetry And Poets WHEN I AM DEAD, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have you mourn when I am dead Last Line: Murmur my name and smile, remembering me. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WHEN ROSELEAVES FALL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When roseleaves fall in evenings cold Last Line: When roseleaves fall. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Stoicism; Summer WHEN SHE WENT, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: She'd long gone strange %a yellowed button Last Line: And when we knocked those down, nothing Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Sky 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 WHEN THE CALL CAME, by NORBERT KRAPF Poem Source Last Line: The rock garden. Yes, we %accept her, I said. Yes Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening WHEN THE ROSE HAS OPENED, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of dreams, in the midnight gloom Last Line: For the rose and the pearl are mine, are mine!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Flowers; Pearls; Roses WHEN THE ROSE IS DEAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The rose's bloom is short; and when it goes Last Line: "you'll seek, and find a thorn and not a rose" Subject(s): Flowers;roses;transience; Impermanence WHEN THE STORY BREAKS, by OLIVER RICE Poem Source First Line: Evolved in a furnished room Last Line: That is absent from every bouquet Subject(s): Flowers; News WHERE BEAUTY DWELLS, by JOHN MARTIN SMITH Poem Text First Line: I walked in a garden of beauty today Last Line: For you are my queen among the flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses WHERE DO ALL THE DAISIES GO?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: That is where they go! Subject(s): Babies;birds;daisies;flowers;mothers;winter; Infants WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?, by PETE SEEGER Poem Source First Line: Where have all the flowers gone? - long time passing Last Line: When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? Subject(s): Flowers WHERE LILIES FLOAT, by ANNIE C. SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: Three children played where lilies float Last Line: Of grace to feed the lean of soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Lilies WHERE YOU MAY REST, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a pleasant mead Last Line: Where thy heart may rest. Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Rest; Sleep; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones WHERE-AWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the lands of where-away! Last Line: Find in lands of where-away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fantasy; Flowers; Kisses; Childhood 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 WHILE ASTERS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And covenant gentians - frill! Variant Title(s): Poem: 33 Subject(s): Flowers WHILE TRYING TO RIVAL YOUR HAIR, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Into dirt, into smoke, into dust, into darkness, into nothingness Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Carnations; Flowers; Hearts; Man-woman Relationships WHISPERING FLOWERS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Whispering flowers, murmuring hours Last Line: Love which we know? Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nature; Story-telling WHITE AZALEAS, by HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL Poem Text First Line: Azaleas - whitest of white! Last Line: That looks into god's own eyes! Subject(s): Azaleas; Flowers WHITE BRYONY, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Have you seen at autumn-time Last Line: Is there any handiwork %prettier than mine? Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by WEI YE Poem Source First Line: Thick fog? Lots of frost? Last Line: It's fine to reas %at night Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Zen Buddhism WHITE CLEMATIS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: The old porch cries beneath its shabby paint Last Line: "elusive sweetness of white clematis." Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Paintings And Painters WHITE CLOVER, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: I'm little white clover, kind and clean Last Line: My honey is good, and meant for you ! Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons WHITE EASTER LILIES, by BLANCHE MALLERY PAYNE Poem Text First Line: Rows of stately easter lilies stood shining and purely white Last Line: Was first an easter lily pure, and grew in god's own care. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology WHITE LILACS, by MABEL CLELAND LUDLUM Poem Text First Line: I know that life's a long road with no turning Last Line: "saying, once more, ""be happy while you may!" Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilacs; Dead, The WHITE LILACS, by BORRIES FREIHERR VON MUNCHHAUSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was damp -- the snails were out, for token Last Line: Ran the gold ditties of the nightingale. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs WHITE ROSE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the inland valleys Last Line: And the lily died. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Spring WHITE ROSE, SENT BY A YORKISH GENTLEMAN, by JAMES SOMERVILE Poem Source First Line: If this fair rose offend thy sight %placed in thy bosom fair Subject(s): Admiration; Flowers; Roses WHITE ROSE, SENT BY A YORKISH GENTLEMAN, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this fair rose offend thy sight %placed in thy bosom fair Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Admiration; Flowers; Roses WHITE ROSES, by ADELE BABBITT Poem Text First Line: White roses speak to me Last Line: And sorrows healed of pain. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Sorrow; Sadness WHITE ROSES, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: There was a rose-tree grew so high Last Line: And while the others wept I smiled. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses WHITE ROSES, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Raw as %marrow, blossoming, they burn Last Line: Of an endless winter, drawing %blood Subject(s): Despair; Flowers; Passion; Roses 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 WHITENESS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White roses set in ivory urns Last Line: The white sea of the tears of god. Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Jesus Christ; Night; Roses; Tears; Wine; Bedtime WHY FLOWERS CHANGE COLOUR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These fresh beauties (we can prove) Last Line: Colours goe, and colours come. Subject(s): Flowers; Virginity; Vestals WHY?, by BENJAMIN SIMMONS Poem Text First Line: Why does the flower bloom? Last Line: And I still plead! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Graves; Tulips; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones WIDOW, by BILL YAKE Poem Source First Line: You know I've never liked clouds or winter Last Line: Since and hope he's gone under mr hangley's house %it would serve him right for parking by my gladio Subject(s): Animals; Flowers WILD ASTERS, by CELIA GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Sky opens, a black rain Subject(s): Asters; Flowers WILD ASTERS, by RICHARD PEVEAR Poem Source First Line: Now come the asters, purple, unclenching like fists Last Line: Light lessens, things die: the asters stand staring like eyes Subject(s): Asters; Flowers WILD ASTERS, by SARA V. PRUESER Poem Text First Line: They fly a silent retreat Last Line: With blossoms rare and select. Subject(s): Asters; Colors; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WILD ASTERS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring I asked the daisies Last Line: Not one knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Asters; Daisies; Flowers WILD BLOSSOMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: No lilies all for milk Last Line: With a sign of the cross. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Flowers WILD CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by NO CHUN-MYUNG Poem Source First Line: How lonesome autumn would look Last Line: Here is for thee the soft cushion, reed-plumes Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers WILD COREOPSIS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sea of blossoms, golden as the glow Last Line: Theocritus amid the asphodels! Subject(s): Flowers; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.) WILD FLOWERS, by OLIVE BODA BROWN Poem Text First Line: In springtime by the sunny woods Last Line: But bluebirds catch them everyone! Subject(s): Flowers WILD FLOWERS, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone I strode where the broad rhine flowed Last Line: Lie here at thy door neglected? Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Flowers WILD FLOWERS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fragrant dewy rose Last Line: And with my love endower. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Flowers; Nature WILD FLOWERS, by GERTRUDE A. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Over the fields gay with violets, tulips and fern Last Line: Knowing that life will be short, but if merry -- amen! Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WILD FLOWERS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Cold shoots through the soles of our shoes Last Line: Trusting the world to help catch us when we fall Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Oak Trees WILD FLOWERS, by GUSTAVE LEMOINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Field flower, a pretty sunburnt maid Last Line: And tears of pitying grief withhold. Subject(s): Flowers WILD FLOWERS, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Moving to the prairies, there are things you should know Last Line: Wild flowers, warnings Subject(s): Flowers; Ranch Life WILD FLOWERS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair rising from her icy couch Last Line: And speak in various ways the bounteous hand of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Flowers WILD FLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We grow where none but god Last Line: To sleep awhile. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers WILD FLOWERS GATHERED FOR A SICK FRIEND, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise from the dells were ye first were born Last Line: Is health to the bosom on which ye die. Subject(s): Flowers; Sickness; Illness WILD FORM, by ANTHONY CONRAN Poem Source First Line: That's not a hydrangea, is it? Last Line: Orgasmic cry of colour %in a green room Subject(s): Flowers WILD GERANIUMS, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: Sunlight through the new leaves Last Line: About the size and softness of your palm Subject(s): Flowers; Geraniums WILD MORNING-GLORY, by KATHERINE KELLEY TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: You wild morning-glory, how lawless ... Growing Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories WILD PLUM BLOSSOMS, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Seafoam and mist and moonbeams Last Line: Robed in their bridal lace. Subject(s): Flowers; Plums; Trees; Plum Trees WILD ROSE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: I am the queen whom everybody knows Last Line: One word which is my secret and my song, %'tis 'england, england, england' all day long Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons WILD ROSE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do I believe? O lovely rose Last Line: So I believe in thee! Subject(s): Faith; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses; Belief; Creed WILD ROSE, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: I can almost hear the words Last Line: Another thing born without wings Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Roses WILD ROSE/ECLIPSE, by DAVID PINK Poem Source First Line: There was a crow wing passed over the single light in the back lot Last Line: As we try to live these days beyond the romantic notions we've honed Subject(s): Eclipses; Flowers; Nature; Roses WILD ROSES, by RHODA S. BARCLAY Poem Text First Line: Flash of pink by the roadside Last Line: O roses, I love you! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses WILD ROSES, by EDGAR FAWCETT Poem Source First Line: On long, serene midsummer days Last Line: Like rustic maids that meekly stand %below the ladies of their land! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses WILD ROSES, by BETH CHENEY NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Two lines of blushing roses go dancing down the lane Last Line: Two lines of wild pink roses are making dreams for me. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses WILD ROSES AND SNOW, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet the sight of roses Last Line: Whereby these roses blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Flowers; Roses WILD VIOLET, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Violet, violet, sparkling with dew Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Violets WILD-ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the dim hot summer blue Last Line: And brown bees drone their honey-call. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Summer; Beekeeping; Bugs WILDFLOWER, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Flowers WILDFLOWERS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There is a wildwood beauty spot Last Line: Where only god doth know. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Innocence; Leaves WILDFLOWERS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Clover cf Last Line: Honeysuckle p Subject(s): Flowers WILTED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little blossom, thou and I Last Line: Haply, more eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WIND FLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As whispers for a moment rest Last Line: Half-visible are found. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers WIND LAST NIGHT BLEW DOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Don't brush them away Subject(s): Flowers WINDFLOWER, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lookest up with meek, confiding eye Last Line: O'erjoyed that in thy early leaves I find %a lesson taught by him who loved all humanity Subject(s): Flowers WINDFLOWER LEAF, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This flower is repeated Last Line: The wind young and strong lets these last longer than stones. Subject(s): Flowers; Wind WINGS OF LACE, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: Pasque flowers hide within their hearts of gold Last Line: To seed-pearls which take flight on wings of lace. Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WINTER ACONITE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Deep in the earth Last Line: Spring calls, and comes; 'tis no mistake Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons WINTER FLOWERS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though nature's lonesome, leafless bowers Last Line: That has no stain of sin to hide. Subject(s): Flowers WINTER JASMINE, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: All through the summer my leaves were Last Line: And we say: 'good cheer! %we're here! We're here!' Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons WINTER ROSE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God's benison upon each happy day Last Line: Lo! The heart blossoms, like a winter rose! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses WINTER ROSES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My garden roses long ago Last Line: The heart of sharon's rose! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter WINTER'S TALE: PRIMROSE: EARLY YOUTH, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, my fairest friend Last Line: Most incident to maids Subject(s): Flowers WITH A BOUQUET OF TWELVE ROSES, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw lord buddha towering to my gate Last Line: "in peace, that once I found in every rose." Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Flowers; Roses WITH A PRESSED FLOWER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little blossom from afar Last Line: Or here our granite rocks among. Subject(s): Flowers WITH FLOWERS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If recollecting were forgetting Last Line: That gathered these to-day! Subject(s): Flowers WITH FLOWERS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These have more language than my song Last Line: A foolish and an overwise. Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Love WITH FLOWERS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send to you a nosegay that but now Last Line: Then love me, while thou'rt fair, ere youth is gone! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Time; Youth; Dead, The WITH FLOWERS IN OUR HANDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come let us walk thro' their burning hell Last Line: Have to hurt us who carry flowers! Subject(s): Evil; Flowers; Hell; Walking WITH LILACS, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL Poem Text First Line: I beg the pardon of these flowers Last Line: By love's own music, softly played. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs WITH ROSES, by SHEFFIELD PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Within the box whose gilded sides Last Line: Long years ago. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses WITH THE CURRENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rarest mood of all the year! Last Line: As the bubbles go. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Rivers; Roses; Sky; Paradise WITHERED HOPES, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Last night my heart was as a fading rose Last Line: But, like my heart, the soul o' the rose had fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Hope; Love; Roses; Optimism WITHERING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fade tender lily Last Line: Back to pleasant spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Flowers; Seasons; Fall WITHIN THE VEIL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She holds a lily in her hand Last Line: But sure one day to be mine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Roses WITNESSES, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses remember; golden noons recall Last Line: Remembers. We were young. Are we so old? Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Roses WOMEN AND ROSES, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of a red-rose tree Last Line: They circle their rose on my rose tree. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses WONDERS OF NATURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah! Who has seen the mailed lobster rise Subject(s): Flowers;nature;nonsense WOOD FLOWER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a flower in the wood Last Line: And now, alas, what voice shall wake her! Subject(s): Fantasy; Flowers; Forests; Woods WOODLAND SONG, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Flowers WORDS IN A CERTAIN APPROPRIATE MODE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not music, though one has tried music Last Line: It is not death, though one has often died Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The WORLDS, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I lived within a world of bloom Last Line: Flowers at the thought of god. Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Theology WOULD I WERE A ROSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I would I were a damask rose Last Line: And blush with the snows Subject(s): Flowers;roses WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?, by MARY C. THURLOW Poem Source First Line: A morning-glory on our wall Subject(s): Flowers; Morning Glories WRITTEN BY THE SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are white dreams I' the dusk, yet sweeter far Last Line: White joy, white peace, white balm that healeth me! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean YALLER ROSES, by ELIZABETH THORNTON KOLTS Poem Text First Line: Honey, bring de yaller roses Last Line: To de lonely heart dat grieves. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses YARROW, by CICELY MARY BARKER Poem Source First Line: Among the harebells and the grass Last Line: Would miss my clusters white and pink, %if I should disappear Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Seasons YE ARE NOT MISSED, FAIR FLOWERS!, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye are not missed, fair flowers, that late were spreading Last Line: To say earth's human flowers not more are missed. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers YELLOW FLOWERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: For the tombs %of the nameless Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Flowers; Graves; Human Rights - Argentina; Solitude; Women YELLOW FLOWERS, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Pie-wedge petals Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening YELLOW FLOWERS, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pie-wedge petals Last Line: It begins with a 'c' %yes: coreopsis Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening YELLOW FLOWERS, by BERTHA GERNEAUX WOODS Poem Source First Line: The painted-cups, the pitcher-plants Subject(s): Flowers; Pitcher Plants YELLOW SPRING, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: April had come, brimful %of yellow flowers Last Line: God was opening his hand full of yellow Subject(s): April; Flowers; Spring YESTERDAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, he spoke of a woman's face Last Line: That yesterday is the long ago. Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Past; Time YOLKI FLOWERS AT TEL HAZIKA, by ELISHA PORAT Poem Source First Line: That autumn, when their time came Last Line: Soured from forgotten blood? Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons YOU, by ROSE FORTE Poem Text First Line: You came into my life and brought the sunshine Last Line: You took the brightness when you went away. Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Life; Love; Joy; Delight YOU AND I, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: My house is full of myrtle flowers, yours is full of Last Line: House, or gathered my roses Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses YOU SKREEEECH YOU SCHREEEEEKKK YOU OF JANUARY 1ST, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Then again roses also jabber and clear their throats at the year's succinct beginning Subject(s): Flowers; Roses YOU WANT ME WHITE, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source Last Line: Pretend I'm snowy, %pretend I'm chaste Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Sisters YOUNG DANDELIONS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am a bold fellow Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Weeds YOUNG GIRL, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: More slightly your wisdom binds her blue-veined wrist Last Line: Wondering at the choked green death. Subject(s): Flowers; Girls; Love YOUNG LOVE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a flower in a forest Last Line: My last sob-note is sung! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth YOUR GARDEN, by THEODORA ROSCOE Poem Text First Line: The violets are here to be picked Last Line: A breath? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening |
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