Rose Poems

Rose Poems

Georgic IV, by Virgil

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

Silenus, by Virgil

First breathed my Muse the Syracusan strain,
...

Amsterdam, by Francis Jammes

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

The Dead Child, by Francis Jammes

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

Love, by Francis Jammes

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

Somnambulist, by Donald Evans

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

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...

Cleopatra, by Albert Samain

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

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 ...

A Match, by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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...

Under the Beeches, by Alice Williams Brotherton

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

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...

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, ...

The Rose, by Anacreon

With the flowery crowned spring
Now the vernal...