Flower Poems

Flower Poems

The Offering to Lais, by Paulus Silentiarius

These withered rendings of brow-wreathing rose;...

Potent Charms, by Paulus Silentiarius

Who hangs a garland on the rose?
How idle then...

Fight, by Percy MacKaye

The Tale of a Gunner at the Battle of Plattsbur...

Urology, by Peter Finch

from Zen Cymru hardly anything hurts here
fro...

The Swallows, by Pierre-Jean de Béranger

On the Moorish coast, chain-tethered,
Thus a...

Psyche, by Pierre Quillard

O MELANCHOLY tender Psyche, sleep.
Lily of da...

Yesterday's Footprints, by Ric Masten

last summer whenever possible
my visiting gran...

Atlantis, by Richard Chenevix Trench

I could loose my boat
And could bid it float
...

Love, by Richard Chenevix Trench

Seemeth not Love at times so occupied
For thee...

A Visit to Tusculum, by Richard Chenevix Trench

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

The Aurora Borealis, by Richard Francis Towndrow

The nights of October 24th and 25th, 1870, we...

Art, by Richard Watson Gilder

Following the sun, westward the march of power...

The Letter, by Robert Birch

From Sweet Sorrow & Bitter Apple The yello...

The Banks o' Doon, by Robert Burns

Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon,
How can ye ...

A Red, Red Rose, by Robert Burns

O, my luve is like a red, red rose,
That's ...

Tam o' Shanter, by Robert Burns

WHEN chapman billies leave the street,
And dr...

April, by Robert Elliott Gonzales

Thine eyes are the stars of the morning,
Thy ...

The Dance of the Fairies, by Robert Elliott Gonzales

I Somewhere in magic mystery,
Beyond the hil...

Love's Return, by Robert Elliott Gonzales

Since when in days agone we met,
My life is d...

A Vision of Atlantis, by Robert Elliott Gonzales

I stood upon the topmost crag of rock-ribbed Ta...

The First Rose of Summer, by Robert Gilfillan

'Tis the first rose of summer that ope's to my ...

The Happy Days o' Youth, by Robert Gilfillan

O! The happy days o' youth are fast gaun by,
...

'Twas Not the Song, by Robert Gilfillan

'Twas not the song, 'twas not the dance,
Tha...

The Withered Rose, by Robert Gilfillan

On finding one in the author's copy of Dante. ...

Chop-Cherry, by Robert Herrick

Thou gav'st me leave to kiss,
Thou gav'st me ...