Plant Poems

Plant Poems

Pompeii, by Guy Wetmore Carryl

POMPEII, 1900. The giant slept, and pigmies ...

Psyche, by Gérard D'Houville

NOISELESSLY through the silent mansion treading...

The Aurora Borealis, by Hannah Flagg Gould

The north! The north! From out the north
What ...

Mary at the Cross, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Nearing the Twilight, by Harriet Maxwell Converse

Through mellow beams of the sun's declining ray...

The Shadow, by Harriet Maxwell Converse

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

To a Field Daisy, by Harriet Maxwell Converse

Thou bright "e'e of daie" that is opening to th...

To the Night, by Harriet Maxwell Converse

The west is barred with hurrying clouds,
With...

Unfolded Hopes, by Harriet Maxwell Converse

Many a bud enfolds a hue that never sees the su...

The Stream of Time, by Harvey Rice

It rolls in grandeur lone--
The stream of Time...

Chrysilla, by Henri de Régnier

O GODDESS, when the sands at last are run,
L...

Autumn Ballad, by Henry Abbey

How mild and fair the day, dear love! And in t...

By Hudson's Tide, by Henry Abbey

What pleasant dreams, what memories, rise,
...

Eleusinia, by Henry Abbey

The sun-bronzed Arabs, living at the base
Of ...

Flos Morti, by Henry Abbey

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

The King and the Naiad, by Henry Abbey

When the wrongs of peace grow mighty,
They be...

On a Great Warrior, by Henry Abbey

In memory of Ulysses S. Grant When all the sky...

Ontiora, by Henry Abbey

Moons on moons ago,
In the sleep, or night, ...

Trailing Arbutus, by Henry Abbey

In spring when branches of woodbine
Hung leafl...

The Last Day of Pompeii, by Henry O'Meara

August 24, A.D. 79. Widespread the centuries,...

A Precocious Hyacinth, by Henry O'Meara

The classic conceit as to the origin of the Hya...

The Sacred White Elephant from Siam, by Henry O'Meara

Written in response to an offer by P. T. Barnam...

The Spring Bulbs' Advent, by Henry O'Meara

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

Texas, by Henry Van Dyke

I THE WILD BEES All along the Brazos river,
...

Autumn, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

With what a glory comes and goes the year!
The...