Lily Poems

Lily Poems

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White, by Alfred Tennyson

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; ...

Bifurcation, by Robert Browning

WE were two lovers; let me lie by her,
My tom...

Rabbi Ben Ezra, by Robert Browning

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,...

Episode in Grey, by Conrad Aiken

I So, to begin with, dust blows down the str...

Bright Sunlight, by Amy Lowell

The wind has blown a corner of your shawl
Into...

The Captured Goddess, by Amy Lowell

Over the housetops,
Above the rotating chimne...

Clear, with Light, Variable Winds, by Amy Lowell

The fountain bent and straightened itself
In t...

The Cremona Violin, by Amy Lowell

Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut t...

The Foreigner, by Amy Lowell

Have at you, you Devils!
My back's to this tr...

The Hammers, by Amy Lowell

I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang!
Bang!
Tap!...

The Matrix, by Amy Lowell

Goaded and harassed in the factory
That tears ...

The Red Lacquer Music-Stand, by Amy Lowell

A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since b...

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed, by Amy Lowell

A drifting, April, twilight sky,
A wind whi...

Sappho to Her Girlfriends, by Sappho

Fragments 34, 77, 76, 61, 71, 48, 86, 83...

An Evening Walk, by William Wordsworth

Far from my dearest Friend, 'tis mine to rove
...

Vaudracour and Julia, by William Wordsworth

O happy time of youthful lovers (thus
My story...

Hudson River, by Evelyn Scott

The thin hill pushes against the mist.
Its fad...

Ophelia, by Arthur Rimbaud

I
On the calm black water where the stars ar...

Fiesole Idyl, by Walter Savage Landor

Here, where precipitate Spring, with one ligh...

The Book of Thel, by William Blake

I The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round thei...

The Lily, by William Blake

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humbl...

Maid of Wu, by Li Bai

Wine of the grapes,
Goblets of gold--
And a ...

The Easter Flower, by Claude McKay

Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly
M...

A Red Flower, by Claude McKay

Your lips are like a southern lily red,
Wet w...

By the Yawning Door, by Francis Jammes

By the yawning door, thick and studded and pai...