Plant Poems

Plant Poems

Under the Beeches, by Alice Williams Brotherton

In the gray beech shadows
Dewey violets hide, ...

The Pear-Tree, by Allen Upward

This shade-bestowing pear-tree, thou
Hurt not...

The West, by Alphonse de Lamartine

The sea grew silent like a seething bowl
That ...

Atlantis, by Amanda Theodocia Jones

PRELUDE   I If earth's lost youth thou ha...

The Battle of Gaines' Hill, by Amanda Theodocia Jones

June 27, 1862.   INSCRIBED TO THE GALLANT...

Shipwrecked, by Amanda Theodocia Jones

I We two waited on the deck--
All around us r...

The Soldier's Mother, by Amanda Theodocia Jones

Awake, little daughter, awake!
The sad moon ...

And Now With All Thy Pencil's Truth, by Anacreon

And now with all thy pencil's truth,
Portray ...

As Late I Sought the Spangled Bowers, by Anacreon

As late I sought the spangled bowers,
To cull...

Now the Star of Day is High, by Anacreon

Now the star of day is high,
Fly, my girls, ...

On a Basin Wherein Venus was Engraved, by Anacreon

What bold hand the sea engraves,
Whilst its u...

On Himself, by Anacreon

On this verdant lotus laid,
Underneath the my...

The Rose, by Anacreon

With the flowery crowned spring
Now the vernal...

Thou, Whose Soft and Rosy Hues, by Anacreon

Thou, whose soft and rosy hues
Mimic form and...

Vulcan! Hear Your Glorious Task, by Anacreon

Vulcan! Hear your glorious task;
I do not fro...

The Bluebird, by Andrew Downing

I saw a pretty bluebird, yesterday,
Rocking ...

Evening in New Mexico, by Andrew Downing

Far off the Rio Grande crawls,
A silver serpe...

Falling Leaves, by Andrew Downing

Now the leaves are falling, bronze and brown a...

The Heart Will Remember, by Andrew Downing

When life burns to ashes that hold but an ember...

The Hummingbird, by Andrew Downing

Hush! Make no sound, nor move your fingertips-...

The Sunflower State, by Andrew Downing

Doubtless you have heard the saying, Kansas la...

Courtship, by Anna Katherine Green

Not the wind
But the soft sunshine best constr...

In Light: In Night, by Anna Katherine Green

Dark 'gainst the deepening skies,
Frosty with...

Love, by Anna Katherine Green

They who see her call her fair;
Say her smile...

Shadows, by Anna Katherine Green

A zephyr moves the maple-trees,
And straightw...