Hyacinth Poems

Hyacinth Poems

To Helen (II), by Edgar Allan Poe

Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean ...

The Burial of the Dead, by T. S. Eliot

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs...

Balin and Balan, by Alfred Tennyson

Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot
I...

Guinevere, by Alfred Tennyson

Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat
T...

Ode II, by Hafez

From the Divan The bird of gardens sang unto t...

Firelight and Nightfall, by D. H. Lawrence

THE darkness steals the forms of all the queens...

Invocation, by Anna de Noailles

PRIAPUS, on thine altar here I lay,
That tho...

A Face, by Robert Browning

If one could have that little head of hers
Pa...

An Epithalamium, by Sappho

Fragments 91, 92, 99, 106, 104, 103, 100,...

One Girl, by Sappho

I Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the ...

A Young Man Talking about a Woman, by Mark Turbyfill

I She is touched with a beauty the sere of ree...

Alexis, by Virgil

Alexis, beauteous, and his lord's delight,
...

Gallus, by Virgil

This closing effort, Arethusa, aid;
A few b...

Georgic IV, by Virgil

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

No Winter in Los Angeles, by August Wilhelm Wern

There is no winter here!
With joy we hail Octo...

To the Aurora Borealis, by Christopher Pearse Cranch

Arctic found of holiest light,
Springing thro...

Sylvia in the Springtime, by Clinton Scollard

Voice of the youth of the year,
Wren song and...

A Precocious Hyacinth, by Henry O'Meara

The classic conceit as to the origin of the Hya...

Pygmalion, by John Hooley

In Cyprus, in an old world time
Dreamy, myst...

Europa, by Moschus

Cypris, when all but shone the dawn's glad bea...

Lament for Bion, by Moschus

Ye mountain valleys, pitifully groan!
Rivers ...

My Lady Hyacinth, by Nellie Seelye Evans

Jars of purple, pearl, and blue,
Quick she ...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, by Omar Khayyám

I

WAKE! For the Sun, who scatter'd into ...

Crossing, by William Wilsey Martin

I lay afloat, in an idle boat
(A fisher-lad h...