Plant Poems

Plant Poems

Two Deaths in the Bronx, by Donald Evans

The sodden stretches of the months of pregnancy...

Hell's Gate, by A. E. Housman

Onward led the road again
Through the sad unco...

Autumn, by A. Ferdinand Herold

DEAR, do you see the autumn fruits a-lying?
L...

The Bear Hunt, by Abraham Lincoln

A wild-bear chase, didst never see?
Then hast...

I Have a Rendezvous with Death, by Alan Seeger

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some dispute...

The Birth of Light, by Albert Laighton

My form was hid in darkness; when the earth
Wa...

In the Woods, by Albert Laighton

I walked alone in depths of Autumn woods;
The...

The Tress of Hair, by Albert Laighton

A single tress of golden hair;
A sacred relic...

Cleopatra, by Albert Samain

I LEANING in silence on the tower-rampart,
T...

Ermione, by Albert Samain

THE tender sky was strown with roses pale..
Yo...

The Infanta, by Albert Samain

MY soul is an Infanta robed in state,
Whose e...

October, by Albert Samain

TOWARD sweet October pilgrim winter creeps,
B...

Winter, by Albert Samain

THE sky weeps white tears that freeze
On the r...

The Dinosaur at Old Faithful, by Albert Whipple Hadley

A Dinosaur reared to his uttermost height
and ...

Eros, by Alcaeus

He sprang, of gods the mightiest god,
From Z...

No More for Lycus, by Alcaeus

No more for Lycus will I sigh,
Or seek his fo...

To Sappho, by Alcaeus

O violet-tressed Sappho chaste,
O maid with h...

Ave Maria, by Alfred Austin

I In the ages of Faith, before the day
When ...

Love and Sleep, by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Lying asleep between the strokes of night
I sa...

A Match, by Algernon Charles Swinburne

If love were what the rose is,
And I were lik...

Campion, by Alice Williams Brotherton

I placed a scarlet campion flower
In the wreat...

The Dandelion, by Alice Williams Brotherton

The dandelion disks of gold
Like mimic suns th...

Dorothy Vernon's Flight, by Alice Williams Brotherton

There was dancing and revelry and feasting,
O...

The Dying Rose to the Nightingale, by Alice Williams Brotherton

What were the gifts of a thousand lovers
To th...

June Roses, by Alice Williams Brotherton

O roses, June roses! From yonder beds of bloom...