Violet Poems

Violet Poems

The Death of Yazdagird, by Ferdowsi

From the Shahnameh There was a paladin, a Tur...

Wedded Love, by Gerald Massey

The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, ...

Narcissus, by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Since the great, glad greeting of dawn from th...

The Shadow, by Harriet Maxwell Converse

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

Speckled Bass at Lake Pepin, Minn., by Isaac McLellan

It is a fair, pellucid lake,
With towering b...

The Ecstasy, by John Donne

Where, like a pillow on a bed
A pregnant ban...

Lullaby For a Baby Fairy, by Joyce Kilmer

Night is over; through the clover globes of cry...

The Flower-Peddler, by Kenneth Rand

With the columbine
And the eglantine
For new ...

The Violets, by Mary Dow Brine

Today I saw the violet-girl, with sad and wist...

Voices, by Mary T. Lathrap

There are voices sweet in the echoing wood,
A...

December, by M.H. Cobb

Far down the somber-tinted North,
Where Argol...

Europa, by Moschus

Cypris, when all but shone the dawn's glad bea...

Pompeii, by Robert Stephen Hawker

How fair the scene! The sunny smiles of day
Fl...

Christmas Pictures, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Christmas-Eve! And all unruffled
Dumb white sp...

Hasheesh Visions, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Fiery fetters fiercely bound me,
Globes of go...

A Summer Idyl, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Pictures of sunset, yester eve,
The still la...

Because I Love You, by Sarah Knowles Bolton

"I cannot bring you wealth, " she said;
"I ca...

The Turn of the Year, by Teresa Hooley

To-day is January still,
Yet, fugitive and h...

Birds of Spring, by Watie W. Swanzy

Trooping o'er the meadows,
Chatter, chatter,...

Home, by William H. Bushnell

Where the rustic porch was hidden by roses, re...