Lily Poems

Lily Poems

The Little Brown Bat, by Edith Matilda Thomas

Quoth the little brown bat: "I rise with the ow...

On the Eve of Sleep, by Edith Matilda Thomas

What is softer than two snowflakes meeting
In ...

A Dream, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

The world had long been sleeping;
The earth w...

A New Hampshire Pond, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

Bordered by birches white and tall,
And pines...

Autumn, by Edwin Curran

In ashes lies the lovely rose,
The jonquils b...

A Cemetery in France, by Edwin Curran

Dawn takes the everlasting skies
And shoulders...

The Palmer's Rosary, by Eliza Allen Starr

No coral beads on costly chain of gold
The Pal...

Over the Graves, by Eliza O. Peirson

Ermine robes of the winter's weaving
Jeweled a...

On the Way to Avalon, by Florence Peacock

Yet it may be I shall sleep sound,
And nothin...

The Black Boars, by George Houghton

I The Black Boars crouch, a huddling pile,
...

The Handsel Ring, by George Houghton

"Here, O lily-white lady mine,
Here by thy w...

O! Who That Lookt Could Chance But Love?, by Gerald Massey

All glorious as a Rainbow's birth,
She came i...

The Pilgrim From the East, by Gustave Kahn

IT is a pilgrim coming from the East.
There ha...

The Easter Lily, by Guy Wetmore Carryl

A little child, as winter turned to spring,
...

Mary at the Cross, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his moth...

The Shadow, by Harriet Maxwell Converse

Imposing a silence on the waves of the sea,
I...

Flos Morti, by Henry Abbey

Maiden, whom I so briefly knew
That unto me t...

The Spring Bulbs' Advent, by Henry O'Meara

Now from their crysalis trance our bulb-loves p...

Maidenhood, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Maiden! With the meek, brown eyes,
In whose ...

Gayeties of Night in the City, by Isaac McLellan

It is eight o'clock of night, and the pallid f...

The Hillside Rivulet, by Isaac McLellan

An Eden haunt, a charming fairy grot,
The an...

The Singing Leaves, by James Russell Lowell

“ What fairings will ye that I bring?&rdq...

Divided, by Jean Ingelow

I An empty sky, a world of heather,
Purple ...

For the Missing in Action, by John Balaban

From Locusts at the Edge of Summer Hazed with ...

Golu, by John Boyle O'Reilly

Once I had a little sweetheart
In the land of ...