Plant Poems

Plant Poems

Morning Joy, by Claude McKay

At night the wide and level stretch of wold,
...

A Red Flower, by Claude McKay

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

The Snow Fairy, by Claude McKay

I Throughout the afternoon I watched them ther...

Archaic Torso of Apollo, by Rainer Maria Rilke

We never knew his incorrigible head
where the ...

Alexis, by Virgil

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

Gallus, by Virgil

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

Georgic I, by Virgil

Whence joyful harvests spring, what heav'nly s...

Georgic II, by Virgil

Thus far the tilth of fields and stars of heave...

Georgic III, by Virgil

Thee too, great Pales, will I hymn, and thee...

Georgic IV, by Virgil

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

Pharmaceutria, by Virgil

The tale of love Alphesiboeus sung
And Damon, ...

Silenus, by Virgil

First breathed my Muse the Syracusan strain,
...

Amsterdam, by Francis Jammes

THE pointed houses lean so you would swear
Tha...

By the Yawning Door, by Francis Jammes

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

The Cricket's Song, by Francis Jammes

LAST night the cricket sang when all was still....

The Dead Child, by Francis Jammes

A small house with a dog in front..
O my love!...

In the Foliage, by Francis Jammes

As I stand in the foliage
     ...

Love, by Francis Jammes

LASS, when they talk of love, laugh in their ...

Madame de Warens, by Francis Jammes

MADAME DE WARENS, you would watch the storm
F...

Extreme Unction, by Donald Evans

Across the rotting pads in the lily lake
Her g...

Love in Patagonia, by Donald Evans

Forgetting her mauve vows the Fania fled,
Tak...

Marise Kissing Her Shoulders, by Donald Evans

It is Easter morning,
And my beloved, with a...

The Mother of God: Acute Alcoholism, by Donald Evans

There was a snake in the gutter--
She was posi...

Oubliettes, by Donald Evans

I. IRIS It was better so
When you did not kno...

Somnambulist, by Donald Evans

Like a long winding-sheet unrolled
Across the ...