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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PLANTING Matches Found: 120 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PLANT WONDERS, by FLORENCE CROW Poem Text First Line: I wonder if my growth had started soon Last Line: A little pot plant, perfect, miniature. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters A WINDFLOWER, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the roadside and the wood Last Line: Between the woodside and the road! Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters ALL IN THE FAMILY, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time in memory Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters AN OLD FRONT YARD, by JESSIE GIDLEY CARTER Poem Text First Line: Flushed peonies bend above the flagstones gray Last Line: As in those radiant, roselit junes of old. Subject(s): Plants; Wellesley College; Planting; Planters BLOSSOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For this the fruit, for this the seed Last Line: Forgets utility. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters BUDS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The raining hour is done Last Line: Of that companionship. Subject(s): April; May (month); Plants; Planting; Planters BULBS FOR SPRING BLOOMING, by VIRGINIA RUSS Poem Text First Line: Planting these inert globes in new dug mound Last Line: Still in deep crocus heart dwells the cool pearl. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters CHICORY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters COLUMBINE, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strolled along the beaten way Last Line: The eye to charm, the ear to bless. Subject(s): Columbines; Plants; Planting; Planters CONTRABAND, by INA H. BEAN Poem Text First Line: Lovelier than the glow Last Line: The prairie's contraband. Subject(s): Farm Life; Plants; Agriculture; Farmers; Planting; Planters COPA DE ORO (CALIFORNIA POPPY), by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy satin vesture richer is than looms Last Line: Brimmed with the golden vintage of the sun. Subject(s): Plants; Poppies; Planting; Planters COUNTRY LORE: SOWING DAYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sow your wheat in muddy weather Last Line: In the dust your barley sow Subject(s): Farm Life;plants; Agriculture;farmers;planting;planters CROCUS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When trees have lost remembrance of the leaves Last Line: And then lead on again the universe? Subject(s): Crocuses; Earth; Plants; Universe; World; Planting; Planters CROCUSES, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desires Last Line: Of ivory, purple, and gold. Subject(s): Crocuses; Desire; May (month); Plants; Planting; Planters CROCUSES, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They come / by stealth, spreading Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Seasons; Planting; Planters CYCLAMENS, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are terribly white Last Line: Of this handful of cyclamen. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Cyclamen; Plants; Planting; Planters DISAPPOINTED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: An old man planted and dug and tended Last Line: "arise, old man, and plant again!" Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters EMBLEMS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where sweet ferns blow, where hemlock shadows lie Last Line: The living trees are emblems of our dead! Subject(s): Death; Plants; Trees; Dead, The; Planting; Planters EROTIC ENERGY, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't tell me we're not like plants Subject(s): Plants; Coming Of Age; Girls; Planting; Planters EXPERIMENT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast a lap full of seed Last Line: Some stinking weed Variant Title(s): "o Lapwing;""thou Hast A Lap Full Of Seed""; Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Plants; Seeds; Planting; Planters FALSE START, by MABEL DODGE LUHAN Poem Text First Line: Ask me no more of the full flower's speech Last Line: I sicken from sunlight but give me the rain, for I am but seed. Subject(s): Growth; Nature; Plants; Rain; Sun; Planting; Planters FLORA, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remote from scenes, where the o'erwearied mind Last Line: Afford an antepast of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Planting; Planters FLOWERS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not have the mad cytie Last Line: For fairest of all is she. Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Roses; Planting; Planters FROM THE UNDERGROUND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, before the wintry gale Last Line: Comes drifting to the light! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters GARDEN RELIEF, by MARGARET PITCAIRN STRACHAN Poem Text First Line: Did you ever carry water Last Line: Upon their bended knees? Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters GOLDENROD, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: When the wayside tangles blaze Last Line: Goldenrod! Subject(s): Goldenrod; Plants; Planting; Planters GREEN THINGS GROWING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the green things growing, the green things growing Last Line: If I may change into green things growing. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Growth; Plants; Planting; Planters HEALALL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the daily love, grass high Last Line: It will cure her. Subject(s): Healing; Plants; Cures; Planting; Planters HEARTSEASE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While o'er my life still hung the morning star Last Line: I sing through life with heart's-ease at my breast Subject(s): Plants;trees; Planting;planters HEPATICAS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: They are like sky children Last Line: "at this miracle of spring!" Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Hepatica; Plants; Spring; Joy; Delight; Planting; Planters HOUSEPLANTS IN WINTER, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their survival seems an open question Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Last Line: The day being done. Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Sun; Swamps; Trees; Planting; Planters; Bogs; Fens; Marshes IMPROMPTU, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is a puddle in the street reflecting green sirius Last Line: And a wine-cup reflecting sirius in the water held in my hands. Subject(s): Mortality; Plants; Planting; Planters IN A GREENHOUSE, by FLORA T. MERCER Poem Text First Line: Long rows of dull white boxes filled with / loam Last Line: To all the beauty of infinity. Subject(s): Flowers; Greenhouses; Plants; Spring; Planting; Planters IN SHIMMERING ROBES, by VIRGINIA SPATES Poem Text First Line: They told me when a wondering child Last Line: Brings shining visions down to earth. Subject(s): Children; Plants; Trees; Childhood; Planting; Planters KILLING THE PLANTS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That year I discovered the virtues Last Line: Flowers, the example of persistence Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters LA CONDITION BOTANIQUE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Romans, rhuematic, gouty, came Last Line: His daily and all-nourishing bread Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters MARCH CROCUSES, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fickle and uncertain march Last Line: Are underneath the snow! Subject(s): Crocuses; March (month); Plants; Planting; Planters MELILOT, by MUNA LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the house is the millet plot Last Line: All but the smell of the white melilot. Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Plants; Planting; Planters MERRY-GO-ROUND, by JOHN WILLIAM SCHOLL Poem Text First Line: Men plow their fields, manure and plant Last Line: To honor the god of things that be. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters MY LADY ANEMONE, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: Beneath soft snows harsh winter lingering Last Line: Beneath soft snows. Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters MY MEADOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, it's still the loveliest meadow in all vermont Last Line: Maybe I have lived too long with the world Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plants; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Planting; Planters NARCISSUS, by NELL BARNES KNORR Poem Text First Line: Little brown bulb in a little brown bowl Last Line: Little brown bulb how you've brightened our place! Subject(s): Bulbs; Growth; Plants; Planting; Planters NOTE ON LOCAL FLORA, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a tree native in turkestan Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters NOW I AM A PLANT, A WEED, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Plants; Farewell; Planting; Planters; Parting PANAMA; HOME OF THE DOVE-PLANT OR HOLY GHOST FLOWER, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES Poem Text First Line: What time the lord drew back the sea Last Line: Let all men pass who come in love.) Subject(s): Panama Canal; Plants; Canal Zone; Planting; Planters PLANT POEM, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shrimp plant on my desk had one long low branch Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters PLANTS AND MEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You berries once Last Line: Of plants and men. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters PRAISE OF CREATED THINGS, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Text First Line: Be thou praised, my lord, with all thy creatures Last Line: And produces divers fruits with colored flowers, and herbs. Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Moon; Plants; Sun; World; Planting; Planters PRAISES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vegetables please us with their modes and virtues Last Line: Flowers, love's language, love, heart's ease, poems, praise Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Plants; Praise; Vegetables; Planting; Planters PUTTING IN THE SEED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You come to fetch me from my work tonight Last Line: Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Plants; Childhood; Planting; Planters ROMAN ANEMONES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden meadows softly blush Last Line: Transfigured into flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters SERENA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In paraguayan forests there's a flower Last Line: And thee than autumn roses! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Forests; Paraguay; Plants; Woods; Planting; Planters SHADES OF GREEN, by FORREST BENJAMIN ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: I too am partial to the shades of green Last Line: They'd be a tree -- a bush -- the flowers -- sods. Subject(s): Green (color); Plants; Planting; Planters SIGNATURES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Plants; Planting; Planters TANKA DIARY (5), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of scanning newspaper headlines, Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE ANEMONE; ON FINDING ANEMONE HEPATICA THE EARLIEST FLOWER OF SPRING, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a fading bank of snow Last Line: How soon will all around be spring! Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters THE ANXIOUS FARMER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was awful long ago Last Line: For every single seed! Subject(s): Children; Plants; Childhood; Planting; Planters THE CROCUS, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the frozen earth below Last Line: Till a sunbeam dissolve it into the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Crocuses; Nature; Plants; Planting; Planters THE CROCUS, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On mountains the crocus Last Line: So she breathes the sun-song of the crocus, -- reveal it, repeat it, who can! Subject(s): Crocuses; Love; Plants; Planting; Planters THE CROCUS BED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yellow as the noonday sun Last Line: Crocuses must leave us soon. Subject(s): Crocuses; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Plants; Spring; Planting; Planters THE CYCLAMEN, by ARLO BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the plains where persian hosts Last Line: If she but live, what are the dead! Subject(s): Cyclamen; Plants; Planting; Planters THE GARDEN-MAKER, by L. D. MORSBACH Poem Text First Line: An old slat bonnet hid her face Last Line: Gave gladly back the smile of god. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Plants; Vegetables; Planting; Planters THE HEATH, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the wide heath, where the unequal ground Last Line: Of their hard lot. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE HOP GARDEN: BOOK 1: HOPS AND PROPS, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When phoebus looks through aries on the right Last Line: They've felt; 'tis then we fell sublimer props. Subject(s): Cold; Plants; Seasons; Winter; Youth; Planting; Planters THE HOROLOGE OF THE FIELDS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For her who owns this splendid toy Last Line: As light they dance among the flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE INDIAN CORN PLANTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He needs must leave the trapping and the chase Last Line: With fostering richness, mothers every grain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Native Americans; Plants; Hunters; Work; Workers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Planting; Planters THE IVY GREEN, by CHARLES DICKENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green Last Line: A rare old plant is the ivy green. Variant Title(s): English Ivy Subject(s): Decay; Ivy; Plants; Rot; Decadence; Planting; Planters THE JAPANESE ANEMONE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All summer the breath of the roses around Last Line: And dead long ago, being lovely for ever. Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters THE LITTLE PLANT ON THE WINDOW SPEAKS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If you had let me stay all winter long / outside Last Line: And great big gardens call you out to play. Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; January; Plants; Play; Childhood; Planting; Planters THE MAIZE, by WILLIAM WHITEMAN FOSDICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song for the plant of my own native west Last Line: Who sent us from heaven the maize! Subject(s): Corn; Plants; Planting; Planters THE MARIPOSA LILY, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Insect or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing Last Line: Thou winged bloom! Thou blossom-butterfly! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Plants; Planting; Planters THE MOSS ROSE, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The angel of the flowers, one day Last Line: Could there a flower that rose exceed? Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Roses; Planting; Planters THE MOUNTAIN FERN, by ARTHUR GERALD GEOGHEGAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, the fern! The fern! - the irish hill fern! Last Line: T is the green flag of time, 't is the irish hill fern. Subject(s): Ferns; Plants; Planting; Planters THE NETTLE-KING, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a nettle both great and strong Last Line: But he said not a word, and went his way. Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Poisons & Poisoning; Planting; Planters THE NORTHWEST CORNER, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish that nate had let me grow Last Line: I did not dare! Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Roses; Planting; Planters THE PLANTING, by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY Poem Text First Line: I have planted a tree Last Line: I have planted a tree. Subject(s): Plants; Prayer; Snow; Trees; Planting; Planters THE PLANTING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plant it safe and sure, my child Last Line: "it will grow while thou art sleeping." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE PUMPKIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Greenly and fair in the lands of the sun Last Line: Golden-tinted and fair as thy own pumpkin-pie! Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Pumpkins; Thanksgiving Day; Planting; Planters THE PYXIDANTHERA, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL Poem Text First Line: Sweet child of april, I have found thy place Last Line: And every hour be touched with grace and light. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE QUESTION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way Last Line: That I might there present it! -- oh! To whom? Variant Title(s): A Dream Of Spring;a Dream Of The Unknown;shelley's Lists Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Rivers; Spring; Planting; Planters THE SEA-POPPY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poppy grows upon the shore Last Line: Where she sits shivering and forlorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Plants; Poppies; Planting; Planters THE SENSITIVE PLANT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sensitive plant in a garden grew Last Line: No light, being themselves obscure. Variant Title(s): To The Sensitive Plant;a Garden Subject(s): Permanence; Plants; Women; Planting; Planters THE SENSITIVE PLANT: A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, ask the nymph with beauty blest Last Line: And modesty, when in the mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE SILENCE OF PLANTS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A one-sided relationship is developing quite well between you and me. Subject(s): Plants; Relationships; Planting; Planters THE SMALL CELANDINE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a flower, the lesser celandine Last Line: Age might but take the things youth needed not! Variant Title(s): A Lesson;the Celandine Subject(s): Celandine; Plants; Planting; Planters THE SOWER, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds had hushed at last as by command Last Line: Will blossom and bear fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE SOWER, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When robert put the seed in, seed in, seed in Last Line: A star like burning snow. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE SOWER, by ELIZABETH Poem Text First Line: Beneath the mild sun vanish the vapor's last wet traces Last Line: With steady hand he paces afield without a mutter. Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis Subject(s): Plants; Solitude; Planting; Planters; Loneliness THE SOWER, by DOROTHY PRESSLER HILLYER Poem Text First Line: I am the man who sows the seed Last Line: How bravely a man can die. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE SOWING, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: April is a man Last Line: And we pray. Subject(s): April; Plants; Seeds; Planting; Planters THE SUGAR-CANE: THE SHAME OF FRANCE, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False gallia's sons, that hoe the ocean isles Last Line: And, with abhorrence, reprobate the name. Subject(s): France; Grocers; Plants; Salespersons; Sugar; Planting; Planters; Selling THE TREE GOD PLANTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The wind that blows can never kill Last Line: Forever grows Subject(s): Growth;plants;trees; Planting;planters THE VERNAL SHOWER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the lucid tears of may Last Line: Sweet the balmy vernal shower. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE WAR IN THE GORSE, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warm, yellow gorse is a child of the noon Last Line: And there's peace on the hill until spring. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters THE WATER-LILY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence, o fragrant form of light Last Line: Left her garment in the tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Plants; Trees; Planting; Planters THE WEEDS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawn, beside the red house Last Line: In the dusk of late summer. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mothers & Sons; Plants; Weeds; Planting; Planters THE WOODSPURGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind flapped loose, the wind was still Last Line: The woodspurge has a cup of three. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Plants; Sorrow; Sadness; Planting; Planters THE YELLOW CROCUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were you, little monarch, crowned Last Line: Bow the knee. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Planting; Planters THREE NATURE POEMS: RESURECTION, by EVA HINTON ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: There's a stir of life beneath the sod Last Line: Narcissus blooms again -- is blessed to grow. Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters TO A CYCLAMEN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come to visit thee again Last Line: We are but wither'd leaves at best. Subject(s): Cyclamen; Plants; Planting; Planters TO A DYING EXOTIC, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Lovely faded plant, the blight I mourn Last Line: Like thee the flowers of pleasure smile and fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, modest crimson-tipped flower Last Line: Shall be thy doom! Variant Title(s): A Mountain Daisy Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Plants; Plowing & Plowmen; Planting; Planters TO A WILD CROCUS, by EDITH CAROLYN NEWLIN Poem Text First Line: 16 ems Last Line: Golden dregs, they left for me. Subject(s): Crocuses; Plants; Planting; Planters TO A WIND-FLOWER, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Teach me the secret of thy loveliness Last Line: For beauty born of beauty -- that remains. Variant Title(s): To A Windflower Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters TO BE SENT IN A MAY BASKET, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER Poem Text First Line: Here's just one sprig of water-cress, another one of Last Line: We gathered them together once, and so I send you these. Subject(s): Plants; Wellesley College; Planting; Planters TO BLOSSOMS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair pledges of a fruitful tree Last Line: Into the grave. Subject(s): Plants; Trees; Planting; Planters TO DR. DARWIN, ON READING HIS LOVES OF PLANTS, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No bard e'er gave his tuneful powers Last Line: To libel harmless trees and flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802); Linneaus (carl Von Linne) (1707-1778); Plants; Planting; Planters TO GO, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bees; Plants; Beekeeping; Planting; Planters TO MARIE, WITH A COPY OF THE TRANSLATION OF FAUST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This plant, it may be, grew from vigorous seed Last Line: The form is mine, color and odor yours! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Faust; Plants; Translating & Interpreting; Planting; Planters TO THE BLUE ANEMONE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flower of starry clearness bright! Last Line: Flower of soul, anemone! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Anemone; Plants; Planting; Planters TO THE CYCLAMEN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou cyclamen of crumpled horn Last Line: Go, carry her this little song. Subject(s): Cyclamen; Plants; Planting; Planters TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou blossom bright with autumn dew Last Line: May look to heaven as I depart. Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Plants; Fringed Gentians; Planting; Planters TO THE SMALL CELANDINE (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies Last Line: Hymns in praise of what I love! Variant Title(s): To The Small Celandine Subject(s): Celandine; Plants; Planting; Planters TO THE SMALL CELANDINE (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasures newly found are sweet Last Line: Who will love my little flower. Variant Title(s): To The Same Flower Subject(s): Celandine; Plants; Planting; Planters TRINKET, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love watching the water Last Line: Small enough to contain it. Subject(s): Plants; Self; Time; Water; Planting; Planters TULIPS, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: A thousand tulip bulbs she bought last autumn Last Line: The beauty that she grubbed and planted for. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Plants; Spring; Tulips; Planting; Planters VERNAL PICTURES (WITHOUT AND WITHIN), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid fresh roses wandering, and the soft Last Line: "song like the swallow darts through fancy's sky." Subject(s): Morning; Plants; Planting; Planters WHITE CURRANTS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I give you white currants? Subject(s): Plants; Planting; Planters WILD COLUMBINE, by JANE MCKAY LANNING Poem Text First Line: The hands of god move exceedingly fine Last Line: God sets the bells ringing of wild columbine. Subject(s): Columbines; Plants; Planting; Planters |
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