Crocus Poems

Crocus Poems

The Palace of Art, by Alfred Tennyson

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house
Wherei...

Discord, by Conrad Aiken

The hurdy-gurdy sings in the golden morning;
...

The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde, by Amy Lowell

The Bell in the convent tower swung.
High over...

Georgic IV, by Virgil

Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now
Tak...

The Bluebird, by Andrew Downing

I saw a pretty bluebird, yesterday,
Rocking ...

Hymn to Apollo, by Callimachus

What force, what sudden impulse thus can make
...

Question--Answer, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

WINTER. The sun is waning wan and old;
The d...

Spring, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

To what purpose, April, do you return again?
...

The Paschal Flower, by Eliza Allen Starr

From a crown of pale leaves like the thorny,
...

Metamorphosis, by Joyce Kilmer

He was an evil thing to see--
Of joy his mouth...

A Visit to Tusculum, by Richard Chenevix Trench

A solemn thing it is, and full of awe,
Wande...

The Flight of April, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

By frozen rills
Among the hills
Was smiling A...

Change, by Sarah Knowles Bolton

To M. L. B. I watched the crocus, purple, wh...

Birds of Spring, by Watie W. Swanzy

Trooping o'er the meadows,
Chatter, chatter,...

The Birth of the Red Rose, by William Wilsey Martin

Thro' the gateways of Eden, Eve all mournful
...