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Last Line: And yet I bar the flour away
Subject(s): Roses


"OF A ROSE, A LOVELY ROSE", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "lestenyt, lordynges, both elde and yinge"
Last Line: And schyd us fro the fyndes bond
Subject(s): Flowers;roses;winter


"THE WHITE ROSE, SENT BY A YORKISH GENTLEMAN TO LANCASTRIAN MISTRESS", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If this fair rose offend thy sight / placed in thy bosom fair
Last Line: "with envy pale 'twill lose its dye, / and yorkish turn again"
Variant Title(s): "the White Rose Sent By A Yorkish Gentleman To His Lancastrian Mistress;the White Rose, Sent By A Yorkish Lover;
Subject(s): Admiration;flowers;roses


A BALLAD OF DREAMLAND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hid my heart in a nest of roses
Last Line: Only the song of a secret bird.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Sleep; Nightmares


A BOWL OF ROSES, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a bowl of roses
Last Line: O, was it you?
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A BUNCH OF ROSES, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses ruddy and roses white
Last Line: Bending his head to a bunch of roses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Hearts; Life; Roses; Dead, The


A BUNCH OF ROSES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rosy mouth and rosy toe
Last Line: To kiss and play together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Babies; Flowers; Roses; Infants


A CLUSTER OF ROSES TO A FRIEND, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses, beautiful roses
Last Line: Be the gifts of his matchless love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Love; Roses


A CONCEIT, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, touch that rosebud! It will bloom
Last Line: You bid it close.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A CORSAGE BOUQUET, by CHARLES HENRY LUDERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Myrtilla, tonight
Last Line: Wears jacqueminot roses.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A DEAD ROSE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O rose, who dares to name thee?
Last Line: Lie still upon this heart which breaks below thee!
Subject(s): Roses


A DEAD ROSE IN AN OLD BOOK, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O anne in town, at rainy hallowmas
Last Line: Grudge I its red or any sweet of june.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A DECEMBER ROSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose is a rose all times of the year
Last Line: A rose is a rose all times of the year.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A DISCOURAGING MODEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just the airiest, fairiest slip of a thing
Last Line: To expect a result half so fair?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Flowers; Models; Roses


A FADING ROSE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the rose that yesterday
Last Line: A sob in her throat and her blue eyes wet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A FANCY FROM FONTENELLE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose in the garden slipped her bud
Last Line: For the rose is beauty; the gardener, time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Variant Title(s): The Rose And The Gardener
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time


A FRAGMENT, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, rose, my chloe's bosom grace
Last Line: You die with envy, I with love.
Variant Title(s): Love's Emblem
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


A GARLAND FOR HELIODORA, by MELEAGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll frame, my heliodora! A garland for thy hair
Last Line: Queen of them all, the red red rose, the flower which lovers love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses


A GHOST STORY, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her life was plain, her death
Subject(s): Death - Children; Roses; Death - Babies


A LAST WISH, by CHRISTOPH CHRISTIAN STURM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my heart has ceased for ever beating out / the dirge of time
Last Line: For the weary sleeper chooses but the evergreen and cross.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Wishes; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


A LAY OF THE EARLY ROSE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose once grew within
Last Line: And this yearning to completeness!'
Variant Title(s): The Lay Of The Rose
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A LITTLE SONG, by REXFORD EIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wandering out amain
Last Line: Of what we sought.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


A LOST FLOWER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Droop all the flowers in my garden
Last Line: My rose that has died to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A MAIDEN, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh if I were the velvet rose
Last Line: More red than roses blow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A MOSS-ROSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the rose of all flowers be the rarest
Last Line: The moss was a bonnet of plush.
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Seasons


A NEREID (2), by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the glaucous waves that kiss gold tauris' beaches
Last Line: From her soft hair she wrung the foam in garlands drifting.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Love; Roses; Dead, The; Paradise


A PASTORAL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flower of the medlar
Last Line: To wake our wedding-day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Marriage; Nymphs; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june
Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile.
Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes


A REMINISCENCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose to the wind has yielded: all its leaves
Last Line: O sorrow, and commune with thine heart: who knows?
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Roses; Soul


A REMINISCENCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the wild honey-bee kissing a rose
Last Line: That a bee could have carried me so far away?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Memory; Roses; Sun


A ROSE, by ARLO BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a jacqueminot rose
Last Line: "went a kiss that I'm wearing."
Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses


A ROSE, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day with bright, appealing face
Last Line: His soul and breaks his fetter?
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Roses; Soul


A ROSE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thy purfled petals are like angels' lips
Last Line: And thou a pledge whence all perfections are.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


A ROSE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: I send to thee this fair and fragrant rose
Last Line: And seek the sunbeam through the wintry snows.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Spring


A ROSE, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blown in the morning, thou shalt fade ere noon
Last Line: Anticipating life, to hasten death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A ROSE, by HELEN RAMSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A flake of dawn's new splendor
Last Line: You voiceless living melody!
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Gifts & Giving; Love; Roses; Inspiration; Creativity


A ROSE FROM MOTHER'S GARDEN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose that was the last to fade was one his / mother brought
Last Line: Her mother-love, as sweet, as brave, will blossom on and on.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A ROSE IN OCTOBER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I strayed, all alone, where the
Last Line: She'd bloom for me aye, as -- my wife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Marriage; October; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A ROSE PLANT IN JERICHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At morn I plucked a rose and gave it thee
Last Line: Yea, give thy very self to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Jericho; Roses


A ROSE WILL FADE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were always a dreamer, rose - red rose
Last Line: A rose will fade in a day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time


A SEPAL, PETAL, AND A THORN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I'm a rose!
Subject(s): Roses


A SIGH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was nothing but a rose I gave her
Last Line: Cannot make it old
Subject(s): Death;flowers;roses; "dead, The;


A SLEEPING-PLACE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When into the rose
Last Line: For lids in maiden slumber wed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Roses


A SONG, by CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, red is the english rose
Last Line: Will grow for a love that never and never can fail.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; World War I - Casualties


A SONG FOR ROSETIME, by SNOW LONGLEY HOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rosetime, rosetime, rosetime in gardens
Last Line: Roses bloom eternally, death's hand is stayed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Snow Longley
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring


A SONG FOR WINTER, by F. H. MCMAHON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is red as the rose
Last Line: Message of red and white.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter


A SONG IN JUNE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a rosebush that grows in the garden you
Last Line: And it would not be june if it were not for you.
Subject(s): Flowers; June; New York City - Dutch Period; Orioles; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


A SONG OF THE ROSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose! What dost thou here?
Last Line: Darkening thine earthly bowers, o bridal, royal rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A SONNET TO LOVE'S TRANSIENT ROSES, by ARDIS M. WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night - long I lay amid love's fragrant roses
Last Line: Return to haunt my reveries at night?
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


A SONNET. THE ROSE AND LILY, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Courted by cupids, and the amorous air
Last Line: And rose and lily do in empire join.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses


A THOUGHT (2), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer rose the sun has flushed
Last Line: Until the cross became its vase.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A THOUGHT OF THE ROSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How much of memory dwells amidst thy bloom
Last Line: Yet may we meet thee, joy's own flower, again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A WALK IN THE SHRUBBERY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The florists, who have fondly watch'd
Last Line: Are still replaced by a succession.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Flowers; Roses


A WAYWARD ROSE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mischievous rose from the rose-tree swaying
Last Line: Rose from the rose-tree swaying.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A WHITE ROSE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red rose whispers of passion
Last Line: Has a kiss of desire on the lips.
Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Roses


A WOMAN'S WISH, by ELLA MASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wish I might be like the rose
Last Line: Leaving a fragrant memory . . .
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


A WRAITH OF SUMMER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In its color, shade and shine
Last Line: And the rocking lily never even rustles as it rings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Roses; Summer


ABANDONED HOTHOUSE, by JIRINA FUCHSOVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rows of roses
Last Line: Death tired %hands
Subject(s): Flowers; Houses, Deserted; Roses


ACTAEON'S MOVE WAS UNINTENTIONAL UNLIKE MINE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Orders come from the forms of the contents of things
Subject(s): Flowers; Paintings And Painters; Roses


AD ROASAM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a vacant dwelling
Last Line: Particulars within.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ADMONITION, by FAITH HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We cannot share the rose without its thorns
Last Line: The stinging wounds that fill us with regret.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


ADVENTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: I loved my garden; in its cloistered plot
Last Line: Nor turn dismayed from unknown fate.
Subject(s): Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses; Sea Voyages; Destiny


ADVICE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must do as you do? Your way I own
Last Line: But I trust we shall meet -- in town.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Advice; Flowers; Friendship; Life; Roses


AFFINITY FOR BEES, by VIRGINIA MCGUIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lark liked to be barefoot in the garden
Last Line: To be intimate with roses
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Roses


AFTER GREAT DROUGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain gropes with delicate pushing fingers
Last Line: The world's as sweet as a rose: a rain-wet rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; Drought; Flowers; God; Hope; Rain; Roses; Optimism


AFTER THE FROST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the frost! O the rose is dead
Last Line: After the frost -- the frost!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Frost; Gardens & Gardening; Kisses; Roses


AFTERMATH, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The herald redbreast sings his winter lays
Last Line: Flaunts the imperial chrysanthemum.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


ALL NIGHT BY THE ROSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "all night by the rose, rose"
Last Line: "dared I not the rose to steal, / and yet I bore the flower away"
Subject(s): Flowers;love;roses


ALL OF ROSES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the isar, in the twilight
Last Line: "here in this simmering marsh."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): River Roses
Subject(s): Fear; Flowers; Roses


AMARYLLIS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She sleeps; - amaryllis %modst flowerets is laid
Last Line: Where roses and lilies %make the sweet shade
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Sleep


AMID THE ROSES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was laughter amid the roses
Last Line: The lonely blossoms weep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


AMONG THE ROSES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stat rosa pristina nomine
Last Line: Arid empty dry as dust
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


AMONGST THE ROSES, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked through a forest, beneath the hot noon
Last Line: In a dance and a dazzle of roses.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


AN ARROW-SLIT, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I clomb full high the belfry tower
Last Line: And carry her, carry her on my breast.'
Subject(s): Climbing; Faith; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Belief; Creed


AN AUTUMNAL EXTRAVAGANZA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With a sweeter voice than birds
Last Line: On its highest minaret.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Music & Musicians; Roses; Seasons; Fall


AN EMBLEM, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is my little sweetheart like, d'you say?
Last Line: To drop the curtain.
Subject(s): Roses; Death; Love


AN INDIAN LOVE SONG (WRITTEN TO AN INDIAN TUNE), by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy
Last Line: Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age.
Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Roses


AN ITALIAN BEGGAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho, little girl, the road beside
Last Line: For this land of lands and this day of days!
Subject(s): Beauty; Begging & Beggars; Flowers; Hearts; Italy; Roses; Italians


AN OPEN ROSE, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do we say that the rose is open? It opens as the
Last Line: Water, far inside the rose's petals. Where you go, I go....
Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Roses; Travel; Journeys; Trips


AN UNFORTUNATE PHRASE, by F. S. (AMERICAN)    Poem Text                    
First Line: He sent her twelve jacqueminot roses
Last Line: For he called on her never again.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


AND THIS IS CERTAIN; IF SO BE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: O lawk! O criky! It's a dream!'
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


ANNIE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not for earthly bread, annie
Last Line: To dwell in paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Life; Love; Roses; Paradise


ANOTHER FOR THE BRIAR ROSE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O treacherous scent, o thorny sight
Last Line: Thine eyes were light; thy lips were life.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ANOTHER LINEAGE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eros, blind father, let me show you the way
Last Line: Of another breed sublimely insane!
Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roses


ANOTHER SONG WITHOUT WORDS, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too red, too red the roses were
Last Line: And of all things but you . . . But you. . . .
Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Roses; Singing & Singers


APOLOGIA VITAE, by MILICENT LAUBENHEIMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Breathe not again, sweet breath, lest her delicate heart
Last Line: Of thorns, that was my rightful heritage.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Pain; Roses; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery


ASHES OF ROSES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend, in whose eyes I looked to-day
Last Line: Shall we complain, such gems who bear?
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


ASKING FOR ROSES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master
Last Line: And grants us by silence the boon of her roses.
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets; Roses


AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Long, long ago, in the sweet roman spring
Last Line: Whose perfume lives to-day.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


AT THE WINDOW BETTER TO MOVE ABOUT IT'S LESS DISQUIETING, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Everything's in the room
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ATTAR OF ROSES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wafture of a thousand flowers is here
Last Line: The unextinguished flame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ATTAR OF ROSES, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like the petals of the rose
Last Line: Till thy lips again I find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


AUREOLA, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your spirit goes in pearl and rose
Last Line: That's when I love your spirit best.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Roses


AUTUMN ROSES, by MARGARET STANLEY-WRENCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now when the year dips swiftly towards winter
Last Line: Before the even greyness of the night.
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Fall


AXIOMATIC OF THE FLOWERED HATS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For an uneven number of busses
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses


BABE HERRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a rosebud might, in dreams
Last Line: Of thy mother slumberest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Nightmares


BABETTE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the dusk of the night is sweet, babette"
Last Line: With a rose in your dusky hair!
Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;love;night;roses; Nightmares;bedtime


BAGATELLES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wanton bee that suck'd the rose
Last Line: Beyond the dying day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Love; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs


BALLAD: TIME OF ROSES, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was not in the winter / our loving lot was cast!
Last Line: We pluck'd them as we pass'd!
Variant Title(s): It Was The Time Of Roses
Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Love; Roses


BALLADE OF JUNE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lilacs glow, and jasmines climb
Last Line: With sir love among the roses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Flowers; June; Love; Roses


BALLADE OF THE DREAMLAND ROSE, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the waves of burning cloud are rolled
Last Line: A petal falls from the dreamland rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Yale University


BARGAIN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose will cost you more
Last Line: This.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


BE HOPEFUL: 2. THE ROSE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blushing and glowing, the rose in full bloom
Last Line: The rose and the gem smile up to the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Flowers; Hope; Roses; Optimism


BEAUTY IS CHANGE, by MAY LEWIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All joy is not encased in the green bud
Last Line: Nor warmth in snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette Anthony
Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Flowers; Roses; Seasons


BEFORE THE MIRROR (VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White rose in red rose-garden
Last Line: The flowing of all men's tears beneath the sky.
Variant Title(s): Before The Mirror
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Portraits; Roses; Whistler, James Abbott (1834-1903)


BESTOWAL, by JEAN CROSSE HANSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A friend sent me roses
Last Line: For my old blue bowl.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


BILLY'S ROSE, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Billy's dead and gone to glory - so is billy's sister nell
Last Line: "and that nelly kissed her brother, saying, ""billy, here's your rose""?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


BIRD MUST SING TO EARN THE CRUMB, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But once a century, the rose %superfluous becomes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 880; Poem: 92
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time


BIRTH OF A ROSE, by MARTITIA M. MOORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O mystic earth! So dead, so cold, a tomb
Last Line: Our heartaches, by him, soften in repose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


BLUE ROSES, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shepherd in delicate dresden china
Last Line: Wait for ever her azure flowers?
Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Roses


BLUE THICK PETAL THAT YOU ARE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Question I can't repress you guide my hand towards the button for the ejector seat why
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


BOUNTY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A child and a rose
Last Line: Child, rose and white soul of his mother!
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Friendship; Mothers; Roses; Childhood


BOUQUET OF ROSES IN SUNLIGHT, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say that it is a crude effect, black reds
Subject(s): Roses


BOWL OF ROSES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You saw angry ones flare, saw two boys
Last Line: Now it lies free of cares in the open roses
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


BRITISH RURAL COTTAGES IN 1842, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The scentless rose, train'd by the poor
Last Line: Where is the aged pauper's rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): Flowers; Great Britain; Poverty; Roses


BROOK, by RAFAEL MARIA DE MENDIVE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Laugh of the mountain! Lyre of bird and
Last Line: Dwell in limpid fount!
Subject(s): Brooks; Flowers; Nature; Roses; Spring


BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY COUSIN: VARIATION 3, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clouds are bunched roses
Last Line: On a budding branch heard.
Subject(s): Roses


BURST OUT THE LAST DAY LIKE DEATH, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Burst out and drink no more %the roses
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses


BY HER WHITE BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By her white bed I muse a little
Last Line: "would mutely plead: ""nay, lord! Let him so sleep."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beds; Flowers; Love; Night; Roses; Bedtime


BY TALKING TO THEM WERE YOU ABLE TO DISPERSE THEM, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With your belt wait a minute hold still
Subject(s): Flowers; Language; Poetry And Poets; Roses


CARESS, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soundless dusk was growing dim
Last Line: And I felt the sensation of a kiss
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Roses


CARPE DIEM, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a time for all things, sweet!
Last Line: And mourn lost blisses.
Subject(s): Churches; Death; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Roses; Worship; Cathedrals; Dead, The


CARRYING FLOWERS IN A DOWNWARD POSITION, by JAMES CERVANTES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Like a rose %drifting into a lily's ear
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Television


CASIDA OF THE ROSE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The rose
Last Line: It was searching for something else
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


CEASE, FOOLISH ROSEBUD, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cease, foolish rosebud, cease unfolding
Last Line: By thy yet lovelier self to-morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Roses; Youth


CHANGE, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enjoy the sweets of life's luxuriant may
Last Line: Constant in this, will change all else %below!
Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Spring


CHEEK OF JUNE, by ELIZABETH MORROW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Roses are red for summer's blood runs sealed
Last Line: Knowing they pledge their faith in summer's heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve
Subject(s): Flowers; Red (color); Roses; Summer


CHILD OF SUMMER, by ANNA WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Child of summer, lovely rose
Last Line: "tis lasting beauty to be wise."
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses; Transience; Impermanence


CLICK TO DATE THE DRIEST GRAY ROSE UNBEARABLE WITH EROTIC, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: My listless life a concert overpowering it it's like that every night each time I go there
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


CLICK-ROSE 2: 10, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Phone the sound %technician
Last Line: The poem puddle of oil the moon hypnotizes and sips or staves %in
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Poetry And Poets; Roses


CLICK-ROSE 2: 11, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rose zooming on the thing zeroing in on
Last Line: Now we have to put up with close-up the grain of your skin %frightening so near without my being abl
Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Roses


CLICK-ROSE 2: 13, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rose then hissing in space like a hot iron in water
Last Line: Grandmother's neck-piece my guage of the past
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Past; Roses


CLICK-ROSE 2: 15, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the poem I read in the making
Last Line: Unseasonably hot terrifying which the other as close as they%are have not been through
Subject(s): Flowers; Language; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Roses


CLICK-ROSE 2: 16, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rose aye (aye from I'm there)
Last Line: They aye of there I am you assail it rose oxyhydrogen blow-torch %always at your labors and at nobod
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


CLICK-ROSE 2: 17, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: That night I ran after you things you have to do you do quickly
Last Line: And will I get better how to come closer without writing)
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Writing And Writers


CLICK-ROSE 2: 18, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world spun round where I wasn't prepared
Last Line: Change of object and this light you are the only one who %knew how not to project it hello sponge
Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Roses


CLICK-ROSE 2: 19, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ronsard's has stuck its head out the door which doesn't shut
Last Line: Certain days the past idle is the opposite of the presence of %the rose
Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Roses


CLOD OF THE EARTH, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clod of the earth, that hardly knows
Last Line: It was thy thought begat the rose.
Subject(s): Roses


COMBINATIONS, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heartache and a crimson rose
Last Line: But sorrow twists the mouth.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Wind; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness


CONSUMMATION, by JAMES TERRY WHITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not poppies - plant not poppies on my grave
Last Line: That hints the scent of roses—as they pass.
Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Roses; Tombs; Tombstones


CONTINUATION / POEM OF CONTINUATION, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In fact you come along with them
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses


CONTRAST, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A great rose garden, redolent of bloom
Last Line: But that it blooms inside a prison wall.
Subject(s): Flowers; Prisons & Prisoners; Roses


COR MIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still sometimes in my secret heart of hearts
Last Line: Like summer, rouse one day the slumbering sense?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Roses; Seasons


CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle
Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears
Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War


CRABGRASS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poison or blowtorch %it-only a trace root
Last Line: Partner, she says-let me catch my breath
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Weeds


CRISIS IS SWEET AND, SET OF HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The transport of the bud
Subject(s): Roses


DANCE SONG, by ANGELO POLIZIANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found myself, young girls, while it was may
Last Line: In a green garden, at the break of day
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Roses


DE RERUM NATURA, LIBER PRIMUS: BOOK 1. LINES 176-209, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why only in the spring are roses borne
Last Line: To all things, which distinguisheth their kind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Spring


DEAR ROBERT, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your roses are blooming in a basket
Last Line: In its receptive soil
Subject(s): Roses; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Perseverance


DECORATION DAY ON THE PLACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's lonesome - sorto' lonesome, - it's
Last Line: On ev'ry soldier's grave I'd love to lay a lily thare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Fourth Of July; Graves; Patriotism; Roses; Soldiers; Independence Day; Tombs; Tombstones


DESIGN, by SALLY BRUCE KINSOLVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast fashioned the rose
Last Line: Sprung towards the sky!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


DESTINY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three roses, wan as moonlight, and weighed down
Last Line: Shut in the icy palm of her dead child.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Roses; Death - Babies


DEZIR, by MICER FRANCISCO IMPERIAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Passing on no vain journey was I upon the
Last Line: And that alone is worthy to be put beside %her face
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: I TOOK OFF PETAL AFTER PETAL, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I took off petal after petal, as if you were a rose
Last Line: Immense and living
Subject(s): Diaries; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Poetry And Poets; Roses


EACH THING I HEAR YOU SPELL OUT, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In brilliant corners and elsewhere
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


EARTH POEMS: 3, by JAVIER HERAUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want two geraniums
Last Line: For my own vegetables
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring; Vegetables


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 16. WARS OF YORK & LANCASTER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus is the storm abated by the craft
Last Line: Gathers unblighted strength from hour to hour.
Subject(s): War Of The Roses


ECHOES: 45, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the brake the nightingale
Last Line: Love a last year's rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses


ECSTASY, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each lovely rose that budded yesterday
Last Line: Here too they think, they struggle, and they love!'
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nature; Roses


ELEGY WHILE PRUNING ROSES, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've weeded thier beds, put down manure and bark dust
Subject(s): Roses; Gardens & Gardening; Death; Dead, The


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 17. THE DIFFICULT ADVENTURE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While wanton love in gathering roses strays
Last Line: Of bloody prickles where no rose appears.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Thorns


ENDRINA AND TROTA-CONVENTOS, by JUAN RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then spake the old dame cheerily: 'right well I wot, perdie'
Last Line: And the pressure of her hand reveals don love's all-potent sway
Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


EPITAPH: 25, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The scent of faded roses once a-bloom
Last Line: I waked—then slept with summer and her flowers.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


EVENING CHANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strew before our lady's picture
Last Line: We will trust and rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Mary And Martha (bible); Peace; Portraits; Roses; Women In The Bible


FABLES: 1ST SER. 45. THE POET AND THE ROSE, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate the man who builds his name
Last Line: To wither, envy, pine and fade?
Subject(s): Fame; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses; Reputation


FAIR IS THE ROSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fair is the rose, yet fades with heat or cold
Last Line: So short-lived beauty a vain gloss doth borrow %breathing delight but none tomorrow
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses


FEAR-FLAME, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it any wonder
Last Line: To visit with god.
Subject(s): Fear; Flowers; God; Prayer; Roses


FEW ROSES, by KERRI BROSTROM MASTERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We've had a few
Last Line: Weeds live forever
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


FIELD PATH, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The beans in blossom with their spots of jet
Last Line: Stooped down and whipt a bit beneath his nose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


FINIS, by ESTELLE CHASE SAMUELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night / I held a rose
Last Line: A thorn.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Thorns


FIRE AND THE ROSE, by FRANK X. GASPAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some days are meant to be filled with shame
Last Line: That this, or something like this, would be possible
Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; Roses


FIRST AND LAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the borderlands of being
Last Line: The white sweet rose of age.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The


FIRST ROSE OF SUMMER, by CHARLES W. DENISON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 2, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two pictures of a rose in the dark
Subject(s): Flowers; Photography & Photographers; Roses


FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 2, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two pictures of a rose in the dark
Last Line: Back toward the whir %and the whistling of things
Subject(s): Flowers; Photography And Photographers; Roses


FIVE ON FIVE AND SUDDENLY, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Even while dancing I reflected on when the rose will cease to broadcast the story it cannot begin
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


FIVE ROSES IN THE MORNING, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On tv the showbiz of war
Last Line: For us, I mean
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses


FLOOD TIME, by FLORA LOUISE HUNN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sappho, two thousand years ago
Last Line: The rose is still the queen of flowers.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Sappho (610-580 B.c.)


FLORA TO CLAUDE, ON HIS PLUCKING A ROSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! You thoughtless cruel boy
Last Line: The glory of my summer bower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


FLORAL TEACHING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O ye red-blushing summer roses, ye
Last Line: But rest awhile waiting the morning beam.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Roses; World


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


FOR AITANA, by RAFAEL ALBERTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aitana, my child, springtime bows
Last Line: The air, dear child aitana, aitana, my child
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring


FOR EVER AND EVERMORE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The woods are no less rich for all the flowers within them
Last Line: For ever and evermore!
Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


FOR STOICS, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO    Poem Text                    
First Line: No monument shall mark
Last Line: But the flesh knows.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dust; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The


FOR THE BRIAR ROSE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fateful slumber floats and flows
Last Line: And smite this sleeping world awake.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


FOUR LYRICS FOR SIBILLA ALERAMO, SELS., by DINO CAMPANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a moment
Last Line: P.S. And so we forgot the roses
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Variant Title(s): Little Gidding
Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter; Historians


FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season
Last Line: Into the crowded knot of fire %and the fire and the rose are one
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Variant Title(s): Little Giddin
Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter


FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 2. SPRING IN TUSCANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose-red lilies that bloom on the banner
Last Line: Fare well we may not who say farewell.
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Spring


FURNESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From my low window I behold
Last Line: On wood and hill and waterway.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Evening; Flowers; Gold; Roses; Sunset; Twilight


GARDEN FANCIES: 1. THE FLOWER'S NAME, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's the garden she walked across
Last Line: Roses, you are not so fair after all!
Variant Title(s): The Flower's Name
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


GARDEN RIVALS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pansy in the garden-bed
Last Line: "likes the larkspur best of all!"
Subject(s): Beauty; Carnations; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


GARDEN TIME, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I planted three small dreams today
Last Line: They cannot help but grow!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses


GARDENER, by CRAIG RAINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and down the lawn he walks with cycling hands
Last Line: For this he stands in weariness, %tired as a teapot, feeling the small of his back
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Grass; Roses


GATHER ROSE-BUDS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While this green month is fleeting
Last Line: All joys expire.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hair; Life; Roses; Time; Dead, The


GATHERED ROSES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As one through some beloved garden strays
Last Line: Given to emptiness and wind and snow?
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses; Snow


GETTING THERE, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With a man who carries roses, a bundle of cut
Last Line: As we ride in silence the rest of the way home
Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Flowers; Love; Roses


GO NOT TOO NEAR A HOUSE OF ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is joy's insuring quality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1434; Poem: 147
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


GO, ROSE, GO, by WILLIAM BEALE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Go, rose, go, and on themira's breast
Last Line: And for my rivals keep thy thorn.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


GOLD-OF-OPHIR ROSES, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O flower of passion, rocked by balmy gales
Last Line: To bloom one perfect day, and then to die.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


GOLDEN HOLLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Common holly bears a berry
Last Line: To cheer an old friend's eyes and nose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Holly; Roses; Nativity, The


GRACE AND STRENGTH, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Manoah's son, in his blind rage malign
Last Line: That day by day untired holds up a rose.
Subject(s): Roses


GREAT COMRADE OF THE NORTH, SWEET GIANT OF POPPIES AND, by AGUSTI BARTRA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Steel rose!
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Poppies; Roses


GROWTH, by MARION LOUISE BLISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Below the troubled soil the rose lies
Last Line: Can annul nor tidal pain avert.
Subject(s): Flowers; Growth; Roses


GYPSY'S WINDOW, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems a stage
Last Line: Vase, look real, as unreal %as real roses
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Reality; Roses


HAD I WIST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing
Last Line: Had I wist.'
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Roses; Roundels; Wind


HAPPY VALE OF TORMES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou happy vale of tormes %grow rich with sunny showers
Last Line: For my little maiden cometh %she comes to gather flowers
Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Love; Roses


HATS, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the sake of the fleabane growing rose a little
Subject(s): Roses; Hats


HEARTH-ROSES, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sugar-maple embers in bed
Last Line: Smelling sweet in our dust.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


HELEN KELLER WITH A ROSE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Others may see thee; I behold thee not
Last Line: Beauty for one and all, gave fragrance for the blind!
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Roses


HER BEAUTIFUL HANDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O your hands - they are strangely fair
Last Line: Like the caress of your beautiful hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Hands; Love; Roses


HER CHOICE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My love or hate - choose which
Last Line: But ah! His hands are -- safe in hers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hate; Love; Roses


HER LIGHT CUITAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She twankled a tune on her light
Last Line: Rippled in glee up my spell-bound spine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Guitars; Music & Musicians; Roses; Stars


HER ROSES, by JOHN E. GLOWNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She bought them, young roses
Last Line: In absolution, in absolution %of your many sins
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


HER VALENTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody's sent a funny little
Last Line: Can not breathe the lightest whisper of his burning love for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Roses; Valentine's Day; Eros


HERSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When grace is given us ever to behold
Last Line: O child, what news from heaven?
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Sleep; Childhood


HOLIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: About my window in a wreath
Last Line: My dreams are drenched with attar of rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Country Life; Flowers; Holidays; Nature; Roses


HOW ROSES CAME RED (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses at first were white
Last Line: The roses first came red.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


HOW ROSES CAME RED (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis said, as cupid danc't among
Last Line: Made it for ever after red.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


HUMAN BEAUTY, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair shrine and symbol of god's loveliest creature
Last Line: Of that shekinah given to thy trust!
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses


HYMN 9, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A breath of roses in the wind doth seize on me
Last Line: God.—my heart is at ease!
Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Roses; Soul; Spring


I AM A ROSE, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am rose my eyes are blue
Subject(s): Roses


I AM NOT INVITED TO THE REMIXING OF XIV I'M NOT SURE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: It's a naked puzzle silicone is an elastomere
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses


I COME FROM THE ROSE GARDEN, MOTHER, by GIL VICENTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: From the rose garden I come
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Roses


I KNOW THE WAY OF THE WILD BLUSH ROSE, by WILLARD EMERSON KEYES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know the way of the wild blush rose
Last Line: For the love of a maid is for aye and aye!
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Red (color); Roses; Summer; Sun


I LOVE MY LOVE WITH A KISS, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, I love my love in the sunny summer - time
Last Line: Is the love I know is mine.
Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses


I SAY MY ROSES WHEN I SAY THINGS-PEOPLE-WORLD I MEAN THE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: W I s m r there's no shame in begging
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


I SEEK A FORM, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I seek a form that my style cannot discover
Last Line: And the neck of the great white swan, that questions me
Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben
Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses


I WAS WALKING I WAS PONDERING THE VIGIL OF SPRING UNDER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The rose of my dibs the march rose which is she existed would have cold-numbed fingers
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring


I WAS WITNESS SHE SET OFF HER WHOLE CHARGE ALL HER BLASTS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: She wants to lay waste anew perhaps
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses


I WISH I WERE A ROSE, A PINK ROSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For you to pick and press against %your snowy breasts
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


IMMORTAL JOY, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When all our roses huddle out of sight
Last Line: Shall gently fall upon its sleeping face.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Immortality; Roses; Spring; Joy; Delight


IN A ROSE GARDEN, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred years from now, dear heart
Last Line: And dream one more dream there.
Subject(s): Roses; Love


IN AN AUTUMN GARDEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night the air discloses
Last Line: Beneath this haunted moon! Have you forgot?
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Roses


IN DELIGHT AT A BOX OF ROSES SENT FROM LEICESTER TO LONDON, JULY 1918, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tender dawns peep from under night's gray cowl
Last Line: Her heart grew light enough to think of me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Roses


IN MY NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the bound of mine own enclosure
Last Line: Might seem the best to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Beauty; Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses


IN ROSE TIME, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh this is the joy of the rose
Last Line: That it blows, %and goes
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


IN THE CONVENT GARDEN, by EDWARD MASLIN HULME    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within the convent garden, at the dusk
Last Line: Near where the roses on the old wall dream.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Primroses; Roses


IN THE GARDEN, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I spied beside the garden bed
Last Line: "as you smell sweet to me!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Sun


IN THE GARDEN BLOSSOMS THE ROSE, by GIL VICENTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To see how the nightingale sings %in that garden so fair
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Roses


IN TUSCANY: SNOW-FLAKES; FOUR SONGS: 1, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is one rose upon the bough
Last Line: And left no rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


IN TUSCANY: STORNELLI: 2, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Roses in the shade
Last Line: Seeking a thornless rose that will not fade.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


INNOCENCE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White rose must die all in the youth and beauty of the year
Last Line: White rose must die all in the youth and beauty of the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Innocence; Roses; Dead, The


INOPPORTUNE, by THOMAS H. BRIGGS JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Too brief her sun of beauty glows
Last Line: Not now, not now!
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Passion; Roses


INSCRIPTION, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is not hard to tell of a rose
Last Line: When sunlight is so close to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


IRRADIATIONS: 1, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spattering of the rain upon pale terraces
Last Line: Towards the sunset beyond the broken doors of to-day.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Nightmares


JACINTHS AND JESSAMINES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jacinths and jessamines and jonquils sweet
Last Line: Should seek a sign at that dread sanctuary?
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Passion; Roses


JOURNEY'S END, by MADELINE YEAGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I am dead / see that folks omit
Last Line: With beauty I shall walk.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Roses; Dead, The; Burials


JUNE, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: June of the iris and the rose
Last Line: To let her roses through, and persian shrines %of poetry and painting gave the rose
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


JUST TO BE SURE I SAID DANUBE YOU SAID YES I SAID A FLOCK, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Hear my name I said well it certainly is you
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


LAST ROSE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With morozova I should bow and obey
Last Line: Take it all except this crimson rose- %let me feel the freshness of the gift it's giving
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


LAUREL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the road in the month of june
Last Line: Than any mood of roses!
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; June; Roads; Roses; Paths; Trails


LE MAIN DE DIEU, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaving rodin's garden, we stole
Last Line: Rocked there, believing, in the hand of god
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses


LEGEND OF THE CHRISTMAS ROSE, by CORINNE BULLARD JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: That christmas night, long, long ago
Last Line: The message of the savior's birth.
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Roses; Nativity, The


LETHE' IS MY FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I perceive the rose
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1730; Poem: 5
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


LETTER TO THE LOCAL POLICE, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been enjoying the law and order of our
Last Line: Respectfully yours
Subject(s): Police; Roses


LIFE'S ROSES, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the morning first uncloses
Last Line: Of the morn beyond the sky.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


LIFE'S ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you are very old, by the hearth's glare
Last Line: And pluck life's roses, oh! To-day, to-day.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Love; Praise; Roses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The


LIKE UNTO SHARON'S ROSES, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: My darling, your grace
Last Line: And raise me from doubting and failing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus
Subject(s): Flowers; Jews; Jews - Women; Roses; Judaism


LILIES AND ROSES, by IBN AL-QUTIYA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Drink you with the lily white
Last Line: Fanned to flame by breezes blowing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Al-qutiyyah, Aby Bakr Muhammad
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses


LILY AND ROSE, by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lily of white innocence, and sweet red rose
Last Line: Thou needest thorns around thee.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Innocence; Lilies; Roses; Thorns


LITANIES OF THE ROSE, by REMY DE GOURMONT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hypocrite flower / flower of silence
Last Line: Flower of silence.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hypocrisy; Roses


LITTLE WHITE ROSE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little white rose that I loved, I loved
Last Line: Little white rose that I loved!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


LONDON ROSES, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rowses, rowses! Penny a bunch! They tell you
Last Line: Roses of london perfumed with a thousand years
Subject(s): Flowers; London; Roses


LONGING, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round the sadness of my days
Last Line: Reach the comfort of your breast?
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Sanctuaries; Solitude; Loneliness


LOVE IN EXILE: SONG, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yea, the roses are still on fire
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Roses; Summer; Love


LOVE IN JUNE, by MARY GENEVIEVE MANAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is a rose that blooms
Last Line: Ere we too pass away.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Roses; Similes


LOVE PLANTED A ROSE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Love; Roses


LOVE POEM, by ELIJAH FENTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: See, sylvia, see this new-blown rose
Last Line: "come on and crop me whilst you may'?"
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


LOVE'S SLEEP, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We'll cover love with roses
Last Line: "but sing, ""love, tra-la-lee!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Sleep; Eros


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 24, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O why have the roses lost their hue
Last Line: O wherefore leavest thou me?
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose and the lily, the dove and the sun
Last Line: Is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses


MADRIGAL, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet rose, whence is this hue
Last Line: No, none of those, but cause more high you blissed: %my lady's breast you bore, her lips you kissed
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


MADRIGAL, by ROBERT LUCAS DE PEARSALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why do the roses whisper to the wind, and toss their heads so high?
Last Line: Surpassing any rose.
Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Envy; Flowers; Roses


MAIDEN BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the youthful rivals meet
Last Line: "steadfast e'en in death."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


MAIDEN MAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden may sat in her bower
Last Line: For her nest and young ones in it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


MALMAISON, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun
Last Line: Of the marley aqueduct.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


MARGARET'S BRIDAL EVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old grey mother she thrummed on her knee
Last Line: And the bird sings over the roses.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Marital; Marriage; Prophecy & Prophets; Roses; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MARTHY ELLEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They's nothin' in the name to
Last Line: And die fer marthy ellen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


MAUD'S ROSES, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone all day in my cabin
Last Line: With your passionless, perfect content!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


MAUREEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ay, yonder the thrushes is pipin' now
Last Line: Maureen—maureen!
Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Flowers; Girls; Graves; Heaven; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise


MESSENGER NIGHTINGALE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nightingale, nightingale, / guest of my bower
Last Line: Lilies to roses.
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Love; Nightingales; Roses


MIGNONETTE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today you sent me mignonette
Last Line: In every spicy spray of mignonette!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Mignonettes; Roses


MOONSHINER'S SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night's blind-black, an' I 'low
Last Line: I'll be twic't as good-again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Moon; Night; Roses; Singing & Singers; Bedtime


MY DESIRE, by MARY JESSIE PEARCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'd like to have a little house
Last Line: And hope 'twould guide you there.
Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Light; Roses


MY FIRST ROSES, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My first roses brought me to my senses.
Subject(s): Roses


MY LADY OF THE ROSES, by GRACE JOHNSON LOMON    Poem Text                    
First Line: She dwells within a mansion fair
Last Line: My lady of the roses.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


MY NEIGBOR'S ROSES, by A. L. GRUBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The roses red upon my neighbor's vine
Last Line: Is grown for you, upon your neighbor's vine.
Subject(s): Flowers; Neighbors; Roses


MY NEIGHBOR'S REPLY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "your neighbor, sir, whose roses you admire"
Last Line: And he who shares the joy in what he's grown / spreads joy and doubles all his own
Subject(s): Flowers;neighbors;pleasure;roses


MY PRETTY ROSE TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A flower was offer'd to me
Last Line: And her thorns were my only delight.
Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Mythology; Roses


MY ROSE, by ADELE HART BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In my garden fair a rose
Last Line: My rose, -- on the lips of a lover.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


MY ROSE, by ELIZABETH WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yesterday, I picked you from
Last Line: Lie sleeping in repose.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses


MY WINTER ROSE, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did you come when the trees were bare?
Last Line: Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter


NEW SPRING: 20, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose is fragrant -- yet if she divineth
Last Line: Would still be useful, we may well suppose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Truth


NEW SPRING: 26, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How the pinks are breathing fragrance
Last Line: And the nightingales are singing.
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses; Spring


NEW SPRING: 30, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my remembrance blossom
Last Line: The withered roses show thee.
Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses


NO LONGER EVEN A ROSE IN YOUR HEAD, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You are writing away
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


NO THORN WITHOUT A ROSE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no rose without a thorn
Last Line: "no thorn without a rose!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses


NOBODY KNOWS THIS LITTLE ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For such as thee to die!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 11; Poem: 3
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


NORA, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O nora knew it, nora knows
Last Line: And lovely, and a rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


NORTH AMERICAN SEQUENCE: THE ROSE, by THEODORE ROETHKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are those to whom place is unimportant
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses


NORTH AMERICAN SEQUENCE: THE ROSE, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are those to whom place is unimportant
Last Line: Gathering to itself sound and silence - %mine and the sea-wind's
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses


NOTHING MYSELF AND THAT I LOVED THEM, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Hammers %roses which
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Roses


O QUADRILATERAL ROSE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: May be so bold
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


O ROSE OF JUNE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O rose of june! In humble guise
Last Line: O rose of june!
Subject(s): Flowers; June; Roses


O SILVER ROSE, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark hour turns so slowly and so sweet
Last Line: For death shall prove more kind.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


OBSERVE THE ROSE-BUD ERE IT BLOWS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Let time possess it when it dies
Subject(s): Beauty;flowers;roses;time


OCEAN BEACH, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Evading headlong breakers, ocean beach
Last Line: With roses trailing down its tilted lanes.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buds of roses, virgin flowers
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Roses; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While we invoke the wreathed spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Roses; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


ODES: 1, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The roses love in the gardens of adonis
Last Line: The little while we last
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Roses


ODI PROFANUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O braid thy tresses helen-wise
Last Line: Make sweet the air.
Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Hair; Muses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Sea; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus


OFF CLICK-ROSE'S KEY CAN ANYTHING BE ATROCIOUSLY NOTHING, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And power then in vision I see them giving in and I've an instant of terror
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses


OFF-SHORE ROSE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


OIL IN THE LLIAD IS RHODOENTE EMBODYING ROSE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


OLD ROSES, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: White roses, tiny and old, hover among thorns
Subject(s): Roses


OLD THINGS, by THOMAS T. BLEWETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to smell old books
Last Line: Fragments of dreams.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


OLD-FASHIONED ROSES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They aint' no style about 'em
Last Line: In the roses of the rich.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses


ON A DAMASK ROSE STICKING UPON A LADY'S BREAST, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let pride grow big, my rose, and let the clear
Last Line: Would be transform'd into a rose as thou.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ON A ROSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How short, sweet flower, have all thy beauties been
Last Line: So virtue lives, when every grace is fled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ON A ROSE PRESSED IN A BOOK, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I win the summer back again
Last Line: At touch of this dead rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Summer


ON AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As fairy like, thy bounding feet
Last Line: This rose shall bloom eternally!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


ON READING THE 'RUBAIYAT' OF OMAR KHAYYAM IN A KENTISH ROSE GARDEN, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside a dial in the leafy close
Last Line: Those ruby-tinted hieroglyphs of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Flowers; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Roses


ON RECEIVING A MONTHLY ROSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Paestum! Thy roses long ago
Last Line: "henceforth shall be my flower."
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ON THE BALCONY, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Both watched the uncertain swallows sudden farewell
Last Line: The tumbled, odorous bed, wide-opening in the gloom.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Romance; Roses


ON THE BORDERS AS WELL AS IN THE MIDDLE LE BEAU ITS CRIMES, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Crime of the beautiful
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses


ON THE LAKE, by LUIS G. URBINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The waters with their phosphorescence blue
Last Line: With petals of pure light from burning flowers
Subject(s): Flowers; Lakes; Nature; Roses


ONCE MORE THE ROSE DOTH BLOOM, by GIUSEPPE PARINI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Absorbed in useful play
Subject(s): Roses


ONE BY ONE THE PETALS HAVE NOT FALLEN OR BY HEAVY CLUMPS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Rose whose
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Thorns


ONE HUNDRED ROSES, by TANG YAPING    Poem Source                    
First Line: One hundred spring mornings weep for me
Last Line: I accept the comfort of strength
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ONE PERFECT ROSE, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A single flow'r he sent me, since we met
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ONE PERFECT ROSE, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A single flow'r he sent me, since we met
Last Line: Ah no, it's always just my luck to get %one perfect rose
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ONE ROSE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot bear the beauty of one rose
Last Line: I cannot bear the beauty of one rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses


ONLY ONE OF MY DEATHS, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because it seems the only way to save the roses
Subject(s): Beetles; Roses


OPEN LIKE A ROSE, by ANN FISHER-WIRTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Open like a rose, he told me
Last Line: 2000).
Subject(s): Bigamy; Birth; Love - Erotic; Flowers; Roses; Child Birth; Midwifery


OUR WEE WHITE ROSE, by GERALD MASSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All in our marriage garden
Last Line: White rose of all the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Childhood


OUR WILD ROSE, by EDNA HALL-NEAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under wide skies, under gray showers
Last Line: But she has thorns to defend her pride.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


OUT OF NOTHING, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the centre of the rose
Last Line: Love, the child of the abyss.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


OVER THE ROSE-LEAVES, UNDER THE ROSE, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did you say you loved me then
Last Line: Or make it bloom again?
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


OVERNIGHT, A ROSE, by CAROLINE GILTINAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: That overnight a rose could come
Last Line: It took my life to grow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time; Worship


PAGE IS TO SKID ON, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Be oral without fail
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


PALE ROSE, by ESTHER RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You laughed uncertainly
Last Line: Knowing you wanted red roses again.
Subject(s): Affliction; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations


PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: 7. TO SAY, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To say `now' and yet again
Last Line: With its redolent folds.
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Roses; Time; Paradise


PARSIFAL, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose of the garden's roses, what pale wind
Last Line: Sweet joy being shameful in the pure fool's sight.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


PASSION IN THE METRO, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Antinous young lord of priapus lost
Last Line: Antinous has slowly %eaten %a rose
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Passion; Roses


PASTICHE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the days are all gone over
Last Line: Even to his own strong child -- despair.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers


PATCH AV GREEN AN' FIELD AV CORN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ay, a field av goold corn jist ferenst a wee green
Last Line: For wee childer's all ris up an' reapin' the day!
Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Play; Roses; Death - Babies


PEACE, by ARMENA BOWMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: No sound - but the rush of dark waters
Last Line: Eternal symbol of an invisible god.
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Peace; Roses


PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 42. AL-JAMIL, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too much ye tremble, too much fear to feel
Last Line: Behold the roses on that tree.
Subject(s): Flowers; God; Islam; Roses; Worship


PERGOLA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me tell you about roses climbing
Last Line: Roses you've read too much about
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Spain


PETALS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shattered rose has fallen to the floor
Last Line: Each is a newer and a lovelier rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


PHILOSOPHIES, by MADELEINE AARON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cedar seeks escape from the blue shade
Last Line: And, fading, dies a regal fatalist.
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Flowers; Nature; Roses


PIETY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh liquid moon that silvers the rims
Last Line: I come! I come!
Subject(s): Charm; Flowers; Graves; Love; Moon; Piety; Roses; Virtue; Tombs; Tombstones


PINK ALMOND, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So delicate, so airy
Last Line: Her roses on the grey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Flowers; Roses; Trees


PLATONIC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew it the first of the summer
Last Line: For the moonlit talks -- and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Roses; Summer


PLAY OF LOVERS, by COLETTE INEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pears soft to the thumb, wine
Last Line: Everyone has seen it
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses


POEM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose fades %and is renewed again
Last Line: To suffer no diminution %of its splendor
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


POOR WITHERED ROSE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor withered rose, she gave it to me
Last Line: Thy perfume lingers in my soul.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


POTLUCK, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: You came one day when all I had a-stew
Last Line: Was that dark dish from my rose-garland plate?
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Love; Roses; Sorrow; Sadness


PRACTICE OF ETHICS: ROSES, by JOAN PARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The proper way to prepare a flower
Last Line: And let the color drip
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


PREPAPATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 4, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My silver chest a sparke of love up locks
Last Line: And sharons rose shall be my rose, and crown.
Subject(s): Flowers; Puritans In Literature; Roses


PRESENTING TO A LADY A WHITE ROSE AND A RED, ON 10TH OF JUNE, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this pale rose offend your sight / it in your bosom wear
Last Line: "and 'tis like heaven to bless."
Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


PROM - ROSES, by JAMES P. SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only a bunch of roses fair
Last Line: For the message the roses bring.
Subject(s): Flowers; Proms; Roses


PROMISE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I grew a rose within a garden fair
Last Line: It blossomed -- but, alas! A worm was at its heart!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


QUATRAIN: THE ROSE, by LILLA CABOT PERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One deep red rose I dropped into his grave
Last Line: And must fare on without it to the end.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The


QUEEN OF ROSES, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My little love hath made
Last Line: For she shall never have it back again.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


QUEEN ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The jessamine shows like a star
Last Line: The rose, the perfect rose be mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


QUEST, by FLORENCE M. BENNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In beauty's quest I may go far
Last Line: Along the path, near my own gate.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses


QUESTION FOR THE STUDENT, by DAVID RIVARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No rose deludes itself by thinking
Last Line: Aren't those flowers lucky?
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


RED AND WHITE ROSES, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Read in these roses the sad story
Last Line: And then they both shall grow together.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


RED AND WHITE ROSES, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses the lover gives to his love
Last Line: Which is the sweeter? When shall we know?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


RED FLOWERS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red flowers grow in the sky, there's a shadow in the garden
Last Line: How beautifully I breathe. %I feel I am bieng ironed, it doesn't burn at all
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Roses


RED ROSES, by MARION PELTON GUILD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I roam in a garden vestal-fair
Last Line: To the red, red roses beyond the gate!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Wellesley College


REMORSE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time must have covered it over
Last Line: Wound into %the body
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses


RENDEZVOUS, by GEORGE O'NEIL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves put a frivolous stencil
Last Line: Floating out. ...
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Vines And Vineyards


RENUNCIATION, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose of the desert of my heart
Last Line: To where no happy roses are!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


RENUNCIATION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the lifted rood thy days have hewn
Last Line: For this, o love, for this!
Subject(s): Divorce; Flowers; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


REVOLUTIONARY STORY, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good mother, what quaint legend are you reading
Last Line: "who ever have been loved."
Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Books; Roses; American Revolution; Love – Loss Of; Memory


ROMANCE, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: A wild rose grew by the ocean's edge
Last Line: Lay only a withered weed.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Roses


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: THE OLD ROSE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She for whom my heart once beat
Last Line: Or to shave will be thy duty.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


RONDEAU, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A ruined rose - I hold it so
Last Line: "my lady proud will lie below,- / a ruined rose"
Subject(s): Flowers;roses


RONDEAU OF HYS LADYE, by JEAN FROISSART    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soe blithe am I when I a rose doe smell
Last Line: Soe full of bliss when I my ladye see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Froissart, Jehan
Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Love; Roses; Joy; Delight


RONDEL, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lilacs are in bloom
Last Line: The lilacs are in bloom.
Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Summer; Time; Rot; Decadence; Sorrow; Sadness


ROSA MUNDI, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose of the world hangs high on a thorny / tree
Last Line: For oh! Thou art sweet.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Thorns


ROSA MYSTICA, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose is a mystery' -- where is it found?
Last Line: Draw me by charity, mother of mine.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Roses; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


ROSA MYSTICA, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: This rose so exquisite
Last Line: There is the rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; God; Praise; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


ROSAMOND'S ROSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rosamond gave me a rose
Last Line: Rose-red and alive in the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSARY BEADS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adore the roses; nor delay
Last Line: Of ever-creeping land.
Subject(s): Flowers; Rosary; Roses


ROSE, by THOMAS HOWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whenas the mildest month
Last Line: Of all the pleasant flowers in june %the red rose hath no peer
Variant Title(s): The Red Ros
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose has a life, they say
Last Line: Her smiles and blushes are our soul's mistresses.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Romance; Roses


ROSE, by MEHDI AKHAVAN SALES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Color the same, same hue
Last Line: Your hand holds nothing but some colored scraps of paper
Subject(s): Flowers; Muslims; Roses


ROSE, by ELIZABETH SPIRES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We waited for the roses to bloom
Last Line: As, over and over, you brought me spring flowers
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE, by NOVICA TADIC    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a glove shop
Last Line: Throw me a rose
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE (1), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First the warmth, variability
Last Line: The gold hawk's-eye speaks once %coldly its perfection
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stillness of the rose
Last Line: Stillness was an eternity %long since begun
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE (3), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose is obsolete
Last Line: The fragility of the flower %unbruised %penetrates space
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE / WHITENESS WITH SONG OF NIGHTINGALE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Rose very balance of the real in its state of production
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


ROSE COTTAGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose cottage, because it had
Last Line: At the window, english faces %with red cheeks, countering the thorns
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE D'AMOUR, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh haste while roses bloom below
Last Line: Pluck, pluck the rose of love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE IS A ROSE, by DOROTHY DONNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unraveling a rose for a clue
Last Line: The secret of its cinnabar skin %won't work-it can only unclothe, %it can never unriddle the rose
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE IS NOT A CABBAGE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And still, in spite of all they do, I love the rose of england
Last Line: No matter of what sort the cabbage be
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Cabbage; Flowers; Roses


ROSE NAPE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE O YELLOW CAB AND WHALESQUE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: O large rose very o she flux
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE OF MAY, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! There's the lily, marble pale
Last Line: Left, like a noble deed, to grace %the memory of an ancient race
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE OF ROSES, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the treasures of the spring
Last Line: Heart, of hearts the nearest.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE OF THE WEST, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Rose of him who cannot wait
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


ROSE PERENNIAL, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The worn gray slab yet lies before
Last Line: Clutched in vain as it reaches higher.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE PETALS, by BLANCHE WHALEN CRITZMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rose petals, rose petals, everywhere lying
Last Line: A tear.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses


ROSE PETALS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I looked within the petals of a rose
Last Line: Within the petals of a rose.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses


ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O rose the red and white lily
Last Line: Gin she this sight did see!
Subject(s): Flowers;lilies;marriage;roses; Weddings;husbands;wives


ROSE TO THE DEAD, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pluck'd a rose for thee, sweet friend
Last Line: And keep it safe for me?
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE WHITE IN THE PURITY OF IGNITION HERE YOUR ASHES IN, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Beaten beating heart rose black line [after a letter from to tsvetaieva to pasternak, 22 may 1926]
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses


ROSE WINDOW, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The preacher took from solomon's song
Last Line: While danced the motes in dusty pew.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE'S METALLURGY WORKER'S LOT OF THE ROSE CONTINUE TO, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The strength not to wait
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE, O PURE CONTRADICTION', by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You tell me nothing is wasted
Last Line: Your sleep unfolds %under so many eyelids
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSE, OH PURE CONTRADICTION, JOY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of being no-one's sleep under so many lids
Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Roses


ROSE, YOUR WARM VOICE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSEBUD, by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rosebud firm and round and rare
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSEBUDS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She plucked a rosebud by the wall
Last Line: By him who rode to foreign lands
Subject(s): Flowers;roses


ROSEEN-DHU, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little wild rose of my heart
Last Line: Ròseen-dhu!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Longing; Love; Roses; Separation; Isolation


ROSEHIPS, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This false fruit, tear-shaped and smooth as a glass eye, cracks like pottery
Last Line: Of a myopic child-the boy who rolls these pods, like marbles, across the %ground, and watches the sq
Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Roses; Thorns


ROSELEAF, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little while the rose
Last Line: A little while the rose.
Subject(s): Flowers;roses


ROSES, by AL-GHASSANI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Roses, roses fresh and fair
Last Line: In the middle of their cup.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES, by HELEN AUGUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Roses bloomed on every bush
Last Line: Ah, what a fool was I!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Wellesley College


ROSES, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: God made roses. / who made you,
Last Line: Worth a bunch of roses.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Roses


ROSES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, wind of the spring-time, oh, free wind of may
Last Line: He gave me the roses of death.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red roses floating in a crystal bowl
Last Line: Red roses floating in a crystal bowl.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: That there should never be air
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That there should never be air
Last Line: To the left corner where we read %'the marvelous' and escape
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I send you here a wreath of blossoms blown
Last Line: Be therefore kind, my love, whilst thou art fair.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses


ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As one sees on sees on the branches in the month of may the rose
Last Line: That in death as in life thy body may be roses
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES, by MAXINE SCATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was reading of the roots
Last Line: Made them a hybrid of our knowing
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES, by JENNIFER SNYDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can barely imagine my mother
Last Line: The promiscuous roses %of her disappointment
Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers; Roses


ROSES, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a rose called guy de maupassant,
Subject(s): Roses; Brotherhood


ROSES (1), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses that briefly live
Last Line: Knows was a rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES (2), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harold, on a summer day
Last Line: I can never hear again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES AND RUE, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember we used to meet
Last Line: God's heaven and hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES ARE A GIFT OF PRICE, by KISA'I OF MERV    Poem Source                    
Last Line: What you buy instead of those %that is costlier than the rose
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love-children of the summer and the sun
Last Line: Your fragrant soul escapes -- can memory bind?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


ROSES BACKLESS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Roses tormented by the storm and slangy purple hymn to joy
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


ROSES OF MY ROSE TREE, by FABIO FIALLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within the courtyard of my home
Last Line: A myriad roses white
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses


ROSES ONLY, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You do not seem to realise that beauty is a liability rather than
Last Line: Your thorns are the best part of you.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses


ROSES RETURN DREAMY FROM THEIR COURSE IN PRODUCTOLOGY, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Union is unanimous they're grumbling it's a provocation don't answer
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses


ROSES; A VILANELLE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are roses white, there are roses red
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Roses


ROSIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a rosie show in derry
Last Line: Thon day—thon day!
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; London; Love; Memory; Roses


ROSITIES ROSE IT IS ROSINESS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Rose of nesses %giantry
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


ROYAL IS THE ROSE, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Royal is the rose
Last Line: White-withered in your clasp.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 1, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake! For morning in the bowl of night
Last Line: And lo! The hunter of the east has caught %the sultan's turret in a noose
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


RUSSIAN ROULETTE, by VICTOR LODATO    Poem Source                    
First Line: What a rose! - the one that shot from his head
Last Line: Wide enough to hold the dark moons %that will hang over them, forever
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SAILOR, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: That bird flying for the first time
Last Line: Who mends torn horizons
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses


SAINT DOROTHEA, MARTYR, by BROTHER CLEMENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Account it most strange if I should fear
Last Line: You will run, you will run to welcome death!
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The; World


SEA IS AWASH WITH ROSES, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon the land
Subject(s): Flowers; Pleasure; Roses; Transience


SEA ROSE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose, harsh rose
Last Line: Hardened in a leaf?
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Roses


SERRANILLA, by INIGO LOPEZ DE MENDOZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: From calatrava as I took my way
Last Line: Her heart is free, no thought of love has bound her %here with the herds around her
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Spring


SEVEN ROSES, by FRANK X. GASPAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three red, one white, one purple, one yellow, one pink
Last Line: How they hate the way they are softly, softly dying for me
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SEVEN YEARS OLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven white roses on one tree
Last Line: Seven years since, of seven times seven.
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Childhood


SHE RENTS LINEN / THE ROSE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With words blank as sabres flat as sabres for the poem not shiny
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses


SHE WILL GATHER ROSES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This little girl / only born to
Last Line: Only born to / gather wild roses
Subject(s): Flowers;girls;roses


SIMPLE THINGS, by PAUL JEAN TOULET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Infinite, let me not think on you
Last Line: Roses of death.
Subject(s): Details; Flowers; Love; Roses; Spring; Things


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 69, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lily has an air
Last Line: When she blows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): The Rose (3)
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 81, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have but one rose in the world
Last Line: There'll be but thorns for stooping.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SINGING ROSE, by DULCE MARIA BORRERO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is an enchanted rose in a solitary garden; in its
Last Line: How could you bloom, merciful rose, in the garden of %grief?
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Grief; Roses


SIX EASILY MEMORIZED OFFSHAVINGS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They're away on leave
Last Line: You will understand my state
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses


SOLID LIKE THE CRADLE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Song of the blessed sharp breaks in the breath and opening the oyster there's a moment of hush
Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Flowers; Roses


SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went down the ways of the roses this noon
Last Line: And my heart and the roses sighed in the sweet place.
Subject(s): Roses; Love


SONG, by MABEL B. FREDERICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sing ho for a garden
Last Line: Is a mirror for you.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, lovely rose
Last Line: That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Variant Title(s): The Rose
Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Flowers; Love; Modesty; Roses; Transience; Impermanence


SONG BEFORE DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet mother, in a minute's span
Last Line: My true love to my dying day.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG FOR THE CENTENARY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter in spirit elect and consecrate
Last Line: Who by thine own words only bid thee hail, and live.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Life; Love; Memory; Roses; Dead, The


SONG OF ROSES SONG OF WELL GAITED TROTTERS NO GALLOPING, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Song of them ensemble in a very gentle trot
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SONG: 13, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside the hedge of roses
Last Line: Dear one, to follow you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SONG: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With rose and cypress and tinsel gay
Last Line: And whisper with sadness and loving sighs.
Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs


SONG: THE DEATH OF THE ROSE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Life, dear life, thy summer days have flown
Last Line: And death had made undying with a kiss.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Nature; Roses; Dead, The


SONGS OF ROSES: 1. ROSE FANTASIA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose, that flushing hues didst borrow
Last Line: Once again.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SONGS OF ROSES: 2. THE MISSIVE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I that tumble at your feet am a rose
Last Line: And your life is but a rose's.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SONGS OF ROSES: 3. THE ROSE OF SORROW, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The royal rose our sovereign bard bewitches
Last Line: For sorrow's rose is white.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SONGS OF ROSES: 4. THE FALLEN ROSE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life, like an overweighted shaken rose
Last Line: Broke them away.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 28, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst others proclaim
Last Line: And there is no living without her.
Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love; Nymphs; Roses; Eros


SONGS: 10. WHEN CUPID FELL FROM GOLDEN HELL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of roses, roses red.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Eros


SONGS: 4. SAY NOT I NEVER TOLD MY LOVE FOR THEE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My love for thee, my sweet and infinite love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses


SONGS: 8. I'VE HEARD, I'VE HEARD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I have had love and the sun's light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Carnations; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses


SONNET, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could come again to that dear place
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses


SONNET, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I gathered blushing roses kissed by june
Last Line: The pure child fragrance in thy soul complete.
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses; Time


SONNET: 17, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No rose that in a garden ever grew
Last Line: Or perished young, or stayed at home in greece.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


SONNET: 18, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Last Line: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Variant Title(s): "shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"";to His Love;
Subject(s): Admiration; Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Flowers; Immortality; Love; Roses; Summer; Transience; Impermanence


SONNET: 54, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, how much doth beauty beauteous seem
Last Line: When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


SONNET: THE LAST OF THE ROSES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A royal rose! A rose how darkly red!
Last Line: His actium came with winter's vanguard -- frost!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SONNET: YELLOW ROSES, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My sweet sun-tinted roses, faint and fair
Last Line: I may not lose one sun-reflecting leaf.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 13, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A rose of a hundred petals
Last Line: How soon it has blossomed out!
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 32, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When she goes walking
Last Line: Roses and lilies she goes pouring
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 36, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love
Last Line: When she wakes up in the morning
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 38, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your door, they call a door
Last Line: And you, early little rose
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 60, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the garden of my queen
Last Line: Came another gardener
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Roses


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 74, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rose, if I did not take thee
Last Line: I had for my bed a rose
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


SPANISH ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses, roses / yellow and red
Last Line: A kiss for a kiss, and a sigh for a sigh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Variant Title(s): Roses
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Youth; Dead, The


SPRING, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See the spring herself discloses
Last Line: Freshly bourgeons every bough.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring


SPRING, by ROBERT DESNOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, rrose selavy, wander out of reach
Last Line: The moment the sun will break the bushes into flower
Subject(s): Surrealism; Roses; Death; Dancing & Dancers


SPRING QUIET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone were but the winter
Last Line: "though far off it be."
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 1
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring


SPRINGTIME, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Month of roses. My poems
Last Line: The sweet season of spring!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring


STONE INTO ROSE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the paved street dig a place for roots
Last Line: Back to the earth in rain to feed a rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Stones; Granite; Rocks


SUMMER GARDEN, by LAURIE BYRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to see the roses
Last Line: And what of their loneliness? %and what of mine
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Parks; Roses; Summer


SUN AND RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the sun and rain have been
Last Line: Their wet eyes heavenward with these of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Baptism; Flowers; God; Rain; Roses; Christenings


SUN-WORSHIP, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were the rose at your window
Last Line: They'd know where the sunshine grew.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


SWEET MOUTH, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweet mouth that is inviting to taste
Last Line: And all that remains of love is venom
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love - Nature Of; Roses


SWEET ROSE, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw thee 'mid the great and fair
Last Line: The love I bore for thee, sweet rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses


SWEET ROSE! WHOSE TENDER FOLIAGE TO EXPAND, by PIETRO METASTASIO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Immortal fragrance, and unwithering bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico
Subject(s): Roses


SYMMETRY, by NELLE MCCULLOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: He who thinks too much of the thorns knows
Last Line: Is a practical idealist.
Subject(s): Flowers; Idealism; Roses; Thorns


TAKE YOURSELF TO THE ROSE-GARDEN, by NEDIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take yourself to the rose-garden, it's the season of our wandering
Last Line: Oh swaying cypress, give back the ruined spring its reign
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TAKING THE BRIDE HOME, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll go not alone, my sweetheart dear!
Last Line: The night-wind pipes the melody.
Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


TAUT FORM / SLENDER / TAUT AND SLENDER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Iris good thunder oh put on your fatigues
Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses


TAX CENTR 9TH ARR ST GEORGES CORP DIR TAX AUMALE HEAR, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: My dreams does it run still along your back
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TENDERNESS OF THE DEATH'S HEAD PURE CRANIAL ROSES BLUE, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Under abode of sirens blatantly howling roses
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses


THE ARMOUR OF THE ROSE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The gorse by her parent, the golden broom
Last Line: —to ward off the cattle miscall'd menkind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses


THE BATTLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There was a battle in her face
Last Line: To battle for my sake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses


THE BEST [THING IN THE WORLD], by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's the best thing in the world?
Last Line: -- something out of it, I think.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE BODY, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I had dreamed and dreamed what woman's beauty was
Last Line: Over age that darkens, and griefs that destroy?
Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Flowers; Roses; Women


THE BRIDE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All veiled in white and silver
Last Line: The red red roses grew.
Subject(s): Beauty; Brides; Flowers; Love; Roses


THE BUTTERFLY AND THE ROSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She pluck'd a wild wood-rose, and fondly strove
Last Line: To hold it, thou hast lightly thrown away!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Bugs


THE CATHARA, by WALTER COLTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: But yesterday thine eyes were bright
Last Line: To breathe in fragrant beauty there.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE CHILD AND THE ROSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the child to the rose: I would that I
Last Line: Dead, with a baby at her breast.
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Night; Roses; Winter; Childhood; Bedtime


THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night it was jewelled
Last Line: A rosy morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Flowers; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Roses; Childhood; Nativity, The; Paradise


THE CHRISTMAS ROSE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A star-eyed child of judah's line
Last Line: Then bore the babe the christmas rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Roses; Nativity, The


THE CLOISTERED ROSE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose that grew in the nun's white window
Last Line: Ah, who may understand?
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Nuns; Roses


THE CRIMSON ROSE, by EDITH M. DELABY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know that I shall never see
Last Line: But fragrance sweet will linger on.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE CRIPPLED GIRL, THE ROSE, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was as if a flower bloomed as if
Subject(s): Roses; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE DISCARDED ROSE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone has thrown a rose away
Last Line: The roses that you have today.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE DYING ROSE, by FENTON JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose lay dying in the summer heat
Last Line: And lived an hour to deck a singer's wreath.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE EGLANTINE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun was setting in the summer west
Last Line: And memories of the by-past, sad and sweet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Memory; Roses; Youth


THE EXILES, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look, - the new rose is rich and fair
Last Line: That kept life sweet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE FADING ROSE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a rose, in bloom, but sad
Last Line: "tis there I have laid her and trod her in.'"
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE FAIREST ROSE IS FAR AWA', by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The morn is blinking o'er the hills
Last Line: The fairest rose that's far awa'.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE FAIRY, THE ROSE, AND THE NIGHTINGALE; A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose while yet 'twas early morn
Last Line: So to revel in the golden ray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses


THE FALL OF THE ROSE; ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR YOUNG LADY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose was saturate with dew
Last Line: Unchanging glows.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The


THE FAVORITE FLOWER, by MARIANNE CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wild rose! Sweet rose, your beauty charms the heart
Last Line: With friendship's call we thrive, our future glows.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE FIRST ROSE OF SUMMER, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh dear! Is summer over?
Last Line: "why, it's just begun!"
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Summer; Childhood


THE FLOWER FOLK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth
Last Line: But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Hope;sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 17
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE FLOWERING FAGGOTS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a field called floridus, east of small bethlehem town
Last Line: Howbeit, the tale is handed down, and the field lies near bethlehem town.
Subject(s): Flowers; Innocence; Legends; Roses


THE FLOWERS OF ETERNITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The good deeds we have sown
Last Line: In that fair realm beyond the sun.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Roses


THE FLUTE-PLAYER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I saw her. 'twas long ago
Last Line: With a different sound must fall!
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Flutes; Love; Rain; Roses; Seasons; Fall


THE FORBIDDEN ROSE, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She wore a cold, hard lily on her breast
Last Line: With passion, and whose very scent was red.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE FUNERAL RITES OF THE ROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose was sick and smiling died
Last Line: And closed her up as in a tomb.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE GARDEN OF LOST ROSES, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, beware, sister mine, of the gardens
Last Line: On the dreams that can never come true.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


THE GARDEN OF ROSES, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the beautiful garden of roses
Last Line: "and the moon and the stars by night!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


THE GOLD BOOK, by KAREN VOLKMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It told the story of a runaway rose
Subject(s): Books; Roses; Reading


THE GOSSIPS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose in my garden, the sweetest and fairest
Last Line: "and you are the loveliest flower that grows."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now grave to rose complaineth
Last Line: "I fledge with angel's wing."
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grave said: 'rose, so bright of hue
Last Line: "god's paradise to fill."
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GYPSY'S WINDOW, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems a stage
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Reality; Roses


THE HARVESTING OF THE ROSES, by MENAHEM IBN SARUK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From his garden bed our lord
Last Line: They were in death to him restored.
Alternate Author Name(s): Menahem Ben Saruq; Menahem Ben Jacob
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Jews; Roses; Dead, The; Judaism


THE HEART OF A MAID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the heart of a rose
Last Line: And with fading must break.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE HEART OF THE ROSE, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet talked with the happy rose
Last Line: And rich in its attar depart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE HEATHROSE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once a boy a rosebud spied
Last Line: Heathrose fair and tender!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE HOLY ROSE, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The holy rose her leaves will soon unfold
Last Line: And seething, overflow. ... Hosannah, lord!
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


THE INQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the rose of keenest thorn
Last Line: Amen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Under The Rose; %'the Iniquity Of The Fathers Upon The Children'
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Flowers; Roses; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


THE JEWELS OF DAWN AND OF DUSK, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like a diamond on a roseleaf when the dew has
Last Line: So steals upon a darken'd heart thy smile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses


THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 4. THE KNIGHT BEAUCLERC TO THE LADY GLORIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When that the queen with all her maids came / singing
Last Line: Farewell! Farewell! But I have loved you best.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Dreams; Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Roses; Nightmares


THE LAST MAN: ROSILY DYING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll take that fainting rose
Last Line: And give to me thy pink, reclining death.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Revenge; Roses; Dead, The


THE LAST REQUEST, by MAURICE RABINOWITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: E bade me pluck a rose o'red
Last Line: Is bloomin' in me 'eart.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Dead, The


THE LAST ROSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O which is the last rose?
Last Line: That fill'd all the world.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the last rose of summer
Last Line: This bleak world alone?
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LIKENESS OF HIS YESTERDAYS ..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The likeness of his yesterdays is such
Last Line: Than yesterday's -- brought from the day before?
Subject(s): April; Flowers; Hearts; Roses


THE LILY AND THE ROSE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nymph must lose her female friend
Last Line: They reign united there.
Subject(s): Flowers; Great Britain; Lilies; Roses


THE LILY AND THE ROSE, by VICTORIEN SARDOU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A secret I wish to disclose
Last Line: United to form a bouquet.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses


THE LITTLE BLACK ROSE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little black rose shall be red at last
Last Line: In a wind o'er the plains of athenry.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE LOST LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What wind is it that stirs
Last Line: Whence none returns, none goes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Flowers; Loss; Roses; Wind; Youth


THE LOST NAME, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The voice of my true love is low
Last Line: And know her by her tears!
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses


THE LOVELIEST FACE AND THE WILD ROSE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The loveliest face! I turned to her
Last Line: In the white being of one girl.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses


THE LOVELY CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lilies are both pure and fair
Last Line: Than a primrose, blossoming?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Childhood


THE LOVER TELLS OF THE ROSE IN HIS HEART, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old
Last Line: My heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Aedh Tells Of The Rose In His Heart
Subject(s): Roses; Dreams


THE LOVER'S POSY, by RUFINUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I send a garland to my love
Last Line: So must you too, haughty maid.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations


THE MARK OF THE ROSE, by HOWARD THAYER KINGSBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I opened the book before me
Last Line: Shall last forever and aye.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Roses


THE MESSAGE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So fair the world about me lies
Last Line: I will send unto her the rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Love; Roses


THE MESSAGE OF THE ROSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only a rose in a glass
Last Line: "I thank thee, rose, dear rose"
Subject(s): Flowers;roses


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 MOSS ROSE, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mossy rose on mossy stone
Last Line: One the root and one the life.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


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 ONE WHITE ROSE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sorrowful woman said to me
Last Line: And the one white rose on the breast!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE PAINTER ON SILK, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a man
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Roses


THE PARTERRE, by E. HARRIET PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I don't know any greatest treat
Last Line: Than every roses buttoning there.
Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Noses; Roses; Women


THE PETAL OF A ROSE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us be quiet for a while
Last Line: Blushes in the solitude!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE PHANTOM OF THE ROSE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet lady, let your lids unclose
Last Line: "e'en kings are jealous of its bliss."
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Women


THE PLAINT OF THE ROSE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the budding rose, 'all night
Last Line: "to the calm of the cloister night!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE POET'S JOURNAL: CHURCHYARD ROSES, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The woodlands wore a gloomy green
Last Line: Of love, that death has sanctified!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Flowers; Forests; Love; Roses; Dead, The; Woods


THE PRAISE OF ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pour we roses into wine!
Last Line: Drinking mid the summer's heat.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Praise; Roses


THE PRESCIENCE OF THE ROSE, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From out imprisoning petals - velvet red
Last Line: Be all unfolded and revealed to me?
Subject(s): Flowers; Red (color); Roses; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


THE PROMISE OF SPRING, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O day of god, thou bringest back
Last Line: His sweet and silent ways.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Spring


THE RECLUSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you live in shadows and sighs
Last Line: "will hide me forever from your eyes!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; God; Hearts; Hermits; Life; Night; Roses; Supernatural; Bedtime


THE RED AND THE WHITE ROSE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The red rose bowed one golden summer's night
Last Line: The heaven-bound votaress and the earthly queen!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROLL OF THE ROSES, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We called the roll of the roses
Last Line: With a troubadour tolling a bell.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Troubadours; Minnesingers


THE ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor rose! I lift you from the street
Last Line: I'll drop you in the river.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Variant Title(s): Le Roman De La Rose
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSARIE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One ask'd me where the roses grew?
Last Line: A bud in either cheek.
Variant Title(s): The Rosary
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fixed to her necklace, like another gem
Last Line: And must, indeed, have been much happier.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lilla gave me yestermorn
Last Line: The lovelier rose that give it too?
Subject(s): Flowers;roses


THE ROSE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun, who smiles wherever he goes
Last Line: To cover her burning cheek.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose had been washed, just washed in a shower
Last Line: "may be followed perhaps by a smile."
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and down
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations


THE ROSE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once a boy beheld a bright
Last Line: Rose once redly glowing.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of summer, lovely rose
Last Line: Tis lasting beauty to be wise!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Summer; Youth


THE ROSE, by GUDMUNDUR GUDMUNDSSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It drooped and it faded, my rose of beauty rare
Last Line: Unbroken peace.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The


THE ROSE, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Press me not to take more pleasure
Last Line: For my answer is a rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before mans fall, the rose was born
Last Line: But ne're the rose without the thorn.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, what a history is on the rose!
Last Line: Unfolded to the earliest breath of june.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet, serene, sky-like flower
Last Line: Because her cheeks are near.
Variant Title(s): Ode To Lucasta. The Rose
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It tossed its head at the wooing breeze
Last Line: Will hide in the leaves in wait for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Sun


THE ROSE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See, mignonne, hath not the rose
Variant Title(s): Ode
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Roses; Male-female Relations


THE ROSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, edith! Spare the rose; it lives, it lives
Last Line: And fill with eden odours all the air.
Subject(s): Fire; Flowers; God; Grace; Innocence; Prayer; Punishment; Roses; Salvation


THE ROSE, by ELIZABETH TOLLET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath my feet when flora cast
Last Line: And love and life must fade and fall.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O love's star over eden, / how pale and faint thou art!
Last Line: It is hers, my rose, my heart!
Subject(s): Evening Star; Flowers; Love; Roses


THE ROSE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentle, gentle river / hurrying along
Last Line: T will cheer life's wilderness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Rivers; Roses


THE ROSE (1), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First the warmth, variability
Last Line: Coldly its perfection
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O rose, thou flower of flowers, thou fragrant wonder
Last Line: To gladden earth and cheer all hearts below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stillness of the rose
Last Line: Long since begun
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE (3), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose is obsolete
Last Line: Penetrates space
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE AND MAPLE LEAF, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Came a loud knocking at the empire's gate
Last Line: An empire knit in one vast brotherhood.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE ROSE AND THE BEE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were a bee and you were a rose
Last Line: "if you were a bee."
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE ROSE AND THE FERN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, life's sweetest lesson wouldst thou learn
Last Line: Gather life's full-blown rose!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE AND THE GRAVE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grave said to the rose
Last Line: The grave said to the rose.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE ROSE AND THE THORN, by MARY FRANCES WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is like a charming rose
Last Line: When you grasp it tightly.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Metaphor; Roses; Similes


THE ROSE AND THE WIND, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, think you, comes the wind
Last Line: Roses must live and love, and winds must blow.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Wind


THE ROSE AND THORN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She's loveliest of the festal throng
Last Line: The thorn has pierced her heart.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Thorns


THE ROSE ENTHRONED, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It melts and seethes, the chaos that shall grow
Last Line: A fair and fragile weed.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Flowers; Life; Nature; Roses; World


THE ROSE FAMILY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose is a rose
Last Line: But were always a rose
Subject(s): Roses


THE ROSE FARMER, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming through the rye
Last Line: The flower of a subject is enough.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE HAS LEFT THE GARDEN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose has left the garden
Last Line: Still in her death.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The


THE ROSE I GREW, by JULIA S. ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In pensive mood
Last Line: As one I grew and watched from day to day!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


THE ROSE IN WINTER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When last I saw this opening rose
Last Line: Who could have dreamed so strange a thing?
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter


THE ROSE OF FLAME, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose!
Last Line: O fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Peace; Roses; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Nightmares


THE ROSE OF SHARON, by HARRY WEISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! I love to roam in fancy o'er the hills where
Last Line: For our god has made our mission not for us but for all men.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Jews; Nature; Palestine; Roses; Judaism


THE ROSE OF THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark rose of thy mouth
Last Line: Kiss me, imperishable fire, dark rose, o rose of my desire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Immortality; Mortality; Mouths; Reincarnation; Roses; Transmigration; Pretas


THE ROSE OF WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its leaves are bright with the cannon-shine
Last Line: For the breath of the tomb is there.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; War


THE ROSE SHE WORE IN WINTER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O rose, so subtly sweet
Last Line: The summer's by-gone bliss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter


THE ROSE THAT ALL ARE PRAISING, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes
Subject(s): Roses


THE ROSE TREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O words are lightly spoken
Last Line: "can make a right rose tree."
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Connolly, James (1868-1916); Flowers; Freedom; Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879-1916); Roses; Liberty


THE ROSE'S MESSAGE, by MARY WINCHESTER ABBOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can you read in the heart of a rose, love
Last Line: Do not spurn it or crush it, my sweet!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSE'S PHILOSOPHY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When red and white the rose of june
Last Line: Who loves the rose must love the thorn'
Subject(s): Flowers;gardens & Gardening;labor & Laborers;perfume;philosophy & Philosophers;roses


THE ROSE-BUD; TO A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM BROOME    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen of fragrance, lovely rose
Last Line: And thou must be what they are now.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Roses; Transience; Impermanence


THE ROSE-BUSH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a rose-bush in a garden growing
Last Line: Its every bud grown into perfect flower
Subject(s): Flowers;life;roses


THE ROSE-BUSH IN AUTUMN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know, and the sunset-angel knows
Last Line: And the tints of its topmost spray!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Roses; Seasons; Fall


THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming
Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE ROSE-LADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream that you are kisses allah
Last Line: For having kissed the dust beneath my feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; God; Kisses; Roses; Nightmares


THE ROSE: A BALLAD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In his tower sat the poet
Last Line: Down upon the poet's cheek.
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses


THE ROSEBUSH, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bush whereon the blushing rose, when
Last Line: In sorrow and in pain.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


THE ROSES OF LA GARRAYE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the ruins of la garraye
Last Line: Leaving only its ghost at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE ROSES OF SAADI, by DESBORDES VALMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This morning I had roses for thee found
Last Line: Breathe on my bosom, love, their odours blent.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


THE ROSES ON THE TERRACE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose, on this terrace fifty years ago
Last Line: Glows in the blue of fifty miles away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 1, by OMAR KHAYYAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake! For morning in the bowl of night
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE RWOSE IN THE DARK, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In zummer, leate at evenen tide
Last Line: Ov her bright feäce by mornèn light.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Love; Marriage; Roses; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE SADNESS OF SUMMER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O beautiful summer! Thou bringest again
Last Line: We hear the sweet whisper, we 're fain to obey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Desire; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Roses; Death - Babies; Paradise


THE SCATTERED ROSE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose from the flowers in her garden she offer'd
Last Line: To merit that blessing by loving her less.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


THE SEA-SWALLOWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This fell when christmas lights were done
Last Line: "the ways are sair fra' the till to the tyne."
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Roses; Sea; Nativity, The; Ocean


THE SECRET ROSE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far off, most, secret, and inviolate rose
Last Line: Far off, most secret, and inviolate rose?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Guests; Secrets; Roses; Beauty


THE SENIOR AND THE ROSE, by EVA LINNETTE SOULE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A few faded rose-leaves
Last Line: And what was that college man's name?
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Schools; Students


THE SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The midnight is not more bewildering
Last Line: Like some vast bubble blown of summer noon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Summer; Nightmares


THE SERMON OF THE ROSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wilful we are, in our infirmity
Last Line: The smoldering sweetness of a dead red rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Roses; Sermons


THE SHADOW OF A FLOWER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a dream of olden days
Last Line: -- shadows of buried flowers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE SICK ROSE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O rose, thou art sick!
Last Line: Does thy life destroy.
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Despair; Flowers; Mythology; Roses; Worms; Dead, The


THE SISTERS, by ROBERT FINCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are two sisters, one is a rose
Last Line: Ribbon fades on the sapped stem.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Sisters


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 30, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And she hath placed a red rose in her hair
Last Line: The freshest, fairest flower the dews begem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Love; Roses


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 94, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now toward the dawn they glide with love-lock'd hands
Last Line: Rob of one charm the sweet-lip'd violet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


THE SOLITARY ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy rose, red rose, that bloomest lonely
Last Line: O happy rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Flowers; Night; Nightingales; Roses; Bedtime


THE SPECTRE OF THE ROSE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Your silken fringed lids unclose
Last Line: So blessed all kings may envy it.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE SPECTURE OF THE ROSE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those marble-lidded eyes unclose, / wake from thy sleep's angelic trance!
Last Line: "e'en kings might envy for its bliss!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE SPELL OF THE ROSE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I mean to build a hall anon
Last Line: Too late to tell me so!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE THREE ROSES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the buds began to burst
Last Line: Mute the tongue, and closed the eye.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE TIME OF ROSES, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, it is the time of roses!
Last Line: Crown me with the rose of love!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Nature Of; Perfume; Roses


THE TWO ROSES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These roses take, which rival hues invest
Last Line: The red-rose there love's victory bespeaking?
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The


THE TWO ROSES, by JOSEPH MARIE SOULARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yestreen beneath the greenery
Last Line: "the farmer's boy that drives the herds."
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Love; Roses; Childhood


THE UNHEARD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One in the musical throng
Last Line: The song in her heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Music & Musicians; Roses; Singing & Singers; Violins


THE WALL-FLOWER, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: O wall-flower! Or ever thy bright leaves fade
Last Line: Be its bridal torch!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Spring; Dead, The


THE WARS OF THE ROSES, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho, white, white brother, tossing in the garden!
Last Line: So we whisper, so we shake, so we dream o' nights
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; War Of The Roses


THE WAY OF LOVE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterfly loves the rose
Last Line: Of another, a redder rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE WEDDING OF THE ROSE AND THE LOTOS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wide pacific waters
Last Line: To wed the red red rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Flowers; Lotus; Roses; Lotos


THE WEE WILD ROSE, by ROBERT TENNANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wee wild rose, the sweet wild rose, the soft winds fondly kiss it
Last Line: But there's a realm above the sky that death's dark wing ne'er shadeth.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE WHISPER OF THE ROSE, by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, would that I were as thornless as the pansy
Subject(s): Roses


THE WHITE FLAG, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent my love two roses
Last Line: The white rose meant surrender.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE WHITE ROSE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose of the desert! Thou art to me
Last Line: Of glory, like the pure white rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Flowers; Leaves; Roses; Smells; Thorns; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


THE WHITE ROSE O' JUNE, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the bricht sun, and the soft simmer showers
Last Line: And may he that should wear it wear scotland's auld croun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Scotland - Relations With England


THE WILD ROSE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High climbs june's wild rose
Last Line: The clouds of an evetide's wreath.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; June; Roses


THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snowdrop is the prophet of the flowers
Last Line: Nature's most beautiful and perfect flower.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Nature; Roses


THE WILD ROSE COURAGEOUS, by LYDA LAURINE PAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Undaunted by pitiless scourging
Last Line: The wild rose will blossom again.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THE WILD ROSE OF PLYMOUTH, by JONES VERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the plymouth shore the wild rose blooms
Last Line: Of love and beauty ever to remain.
Subject(s): Flowers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Roses


THE WIND AND THE ROSE; AN APOLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little red rose bloomed all alone
Last Line: "and kill where he meant to cure!"
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The


THE WISDOM OF THE ROSE, by ELSA BARKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not wound me or I die
Subject(s): Roses


THE WITHERED ROSE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, fading rose, a present to my fair
Last Line: With water of my tears, or with my blood.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Transience; Sorrow; Sadness; Impermanence


THE WOOD-ROSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When wordsworth found those beds of daffodil
Last Line: Seen, lost and seen, along the reedy brink.
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


THE YEAR OF THE ROSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the depths of the green garden-closes
Last Line: Over the red rose-land.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses


THE YOUNG ROSE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The young rose which I gave thee, so dewy and bright
Last Line: She'll think the sweet night-bird is courting her still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Roses


THEM FLOWERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take a feller 'at's sick and laid up
Last Line: Is a-leakin' -- I'm blamed ef they ain't!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Youth


THERE NEVER BLOWS SO RED THE ROSE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As march's catalogs disclose %and yearly I fall prey to
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry And Poets; Roses; Spring


THERESE, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose once pressed against thy lips
Last Line: And die upon my heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


THEY FLY IN THIS PLACE WHERE THEY ARE WHICH IS THE WORLD, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In the abundant rosery which is the world merely
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


THEY KNOW WHEN THE DOSE IS FATAL (OR SO SLIGHT A RUMOR, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: By inhaling but it's brutal
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Love; Poetry And Poets; Roses


THIS MORNING THE DAY CAME UNSTOPPERED NOW AND AGAIN, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The fizz escaping from the bottles but that's the sound roses make
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


THORN LEAVES IN MARCH, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking out in the late march midnight
Last Line: Sank nearer already, listing toward summer
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses; Spring; Thorns


THORNS OR ROSES, by IRENE L. HANSING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life had only thorns for me
Last Line: And find the rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Roses; Thorns


THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer winds is sniffin' round
Last Line: And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips fer me and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers


THREE ROSES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just when the red june roses blow
Last Line: My world was gained and lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Flowers; June; Roses


THROW ROSES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Throw roses on the sea where the dead went down
Subject(s): Sea; Death; Roses; Ocean; Dead, The


TIME OF ROSES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clean flows the wind as from its grand source flowing
Last Line: At first that this year grass has brought forth roses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Flowers; Landscape; Roses; English


TO - (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Music, when soft voices die
Last Line: Love itself shall slumber on.
Variant Title(s): Music;memory
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Roses; Bereavement


TO -, WITH A ROSE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I asked my heart to stay
Last Line: I send a rose unto a rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A BEAUTIFUL VINE AND A ROSE-BUSH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou fair expanding mossy-rose
Last Line: Thy straying buds of brigthest red.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A CHEROKEE ROSE, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy one white leaf is open to the sky
Last Line: A virgin dowered with a heart of gold.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A CLOISTRESS, by JUAN DE TASIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou who hast fled from life's enchanted
Last Line: Now heaven's bright harbor opens to thy %gaze!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring; Thorns


TO A DYING ROSE, by SARAH ORSHANSKY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fading petal of a dying rose!
Last Line: The wind bloweth past . . . A sigh! . . . Good-bye.
Subject(s): Flowers; Mortality; Roses


TO A JUNE ROSE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O royal rose! The roman dress'd
Last Line: O royal rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A LLANGOLLEN ROSE, THE DAY AFTER IT HAD BEEN GIVEN BY MISS PONSONBY, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft blushing flower! My bosom grieves
Last Line: Which tears it from so sweet a home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A PERSIAN ROSE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the world's garden close
Last Line: Neath those hot skies.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A POT OF HELIOTROPE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shake out your purple petals
Last Line: Hung in the breeze to blow.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heliotropes; Roses


TO A PRESSED ROSE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovely faded rose
Last Line: A lovely faded rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time


TO A ROSE, by LOUISE LEIGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Layer on layer, your mute perfection grew
Last Line: O rose of perfect beauty, ever new?
Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Susan Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A ROSE, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, rose, and in her golden hair
Last Line: Shall place your body in the tomb!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A ROSE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou new-born rose, emerging from the dew
Last Line: Love to mankind, and confidence in god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Flowers; Love; Mankind; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Human Race


TO A ROSE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast not toiled, sweet rose
Last Line: Its shadow falls alike on thee and me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A ROSE, by MRS. O. O. TUCKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh lovely rose
Last Line: As your lovely blossoms fair.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A ROSE DEAD AT MORNING, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O purple blossoms, rained upon
Last Line: And sheds her song is even as you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO A ROSEBUD, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little timid rose
Last Line: Lo, thou art dead!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Dead, The


TO A WILD ROSE ON A INDIAN GRAVE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the pasture where the grasses are the first to / herald spring
Last Line: The good shall live forever, and the pure shall never die.
Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Flowers; Legends; Roses


TO A WITHERED ROSE, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy span of life was all too short
Last Line: To live and die a rose?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Roses; Trees


TO ADOLPHE GAIFFE, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young man free from melancholy
Last Line: Words! Words! Come gather roses.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring; Wisdom; Youth


TO APOLLO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Luminous master of song and sunbeams
Last Line: Harlots and publicans enter in.
Subject(s): Apollo; Flowers; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Soul


TO BE AMONG ROSES I A VERY BAD WALTZER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO BE AMONG THE ROSES, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Being any rose in the body of the singable able to begin
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


TO HELEN KELLER, by THOMAS NUNAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A rose unfolding in the sun
Last Line: And radiates a light divine.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Roses; Soul; Stars


TO HILDA OF HER ROSES, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enough has been said about roses
Last Line: Ledwidge, even!
Subject(s): Flowers; Ledwidge, Francis (1891-1917); Poetry & Poets; Roses


TO MISTRESS ROSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose by any other name?
Last Line: "that sets our hearts aflame!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO MRS, WILLIAM HAYES DANA I DEDICATE THIS BOOK .. FOR HER ROSE GARDEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You took a piece of earth and made it fair
Last Line: A coronal of beauty for tributing
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


TO MURIEL: AT THE OPERA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses and rose-buds, red and white
Last Line: But if the rose were muriel?
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE ROSE, by WILLIAM HAMMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the honey drops of pearly showers
Last Line: Heaven put his hand forth, and did glean.'
Subject(s): Flowers; Mourning; Roses; Bereavement


TO MY FIOR-DI-LISA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose is love's own flower, and love's no less
Last Line: In the deep-hearted rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses


TO MY HEART'S GARDEN, STEALTHILY CAME HE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI                        Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who caught whom, he me?
Subject(s): Roses


TO MY ITALIAN PERGOLA REVISITED, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shaded avenue of bloom
Last Line: That your glowing hearts are mine.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Nature; Roses; Spring


TO MY ROSE, by ALEKSEY MERZLYAKOV    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bright queen of flowers, o! Rose, gay blooming
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO ROSE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eat, drink and be merry, he said
Last Line: Raise up the ghost of a rose
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TO THE ROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, happy rose, and interwove
Last Line: And burn thee 'up, as well as I.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days!
Last Line: Red rose, proud rose, sad rose of all my days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Flowers; Ireland; Legends, Irish; Roses; Irish


TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Last Line: You may forever tarry.
Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO-MORROW, by NAOMI REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Myriad rambler roses
Last Line: I'll linger until you bloom.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TOWN AND COUNTRY, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowers are blooming in the woods, the
Last Line: "when the sun goes down, if I can chase myself to town, to see the movie shows."
Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Towns; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


TRAGEDIES: 11, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the middle of my garden-bed
Last Line: And die along with me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses


TRAGEDIES: 12, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the warm wax-light one lounged at the spinet
Last Line: And all the sweet while they were fading away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Flowers; Moon; Pleasure; Roses


TRAGEDIES: 2, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She reach'd a rose-bud from the tree
Last Line: The worst is over when we die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The


TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 8. THE LAST PILGRIMAGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enough of ease, o love, enough of light
Last Line: And all things born took comfort from the sun
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Roses; Tristram And Isolde


TRUE GIFT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a young maiden, in the morning air
Last Line: Than heaped-up flowers no thoughtful care disposes.
Subject(s): Flowers; Orchards; Roses; Spring; Youth


TUBEROSES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tuberose you left me yesterday
Last Line: Forswear to-day, o man, and take to-morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TWELVE SONNETS: 3. THE VALLEY ROSES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: And have we left the roses far behind?
Last Line: Than all the wild scents of the hot low lands.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TWO RED ROSES, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish they could live forever
Last Line: These roses my darling brought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TWO RED ROSES ACROSS THE MOON, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a lady lived in a hall
Last Line: Two red roses across the moon.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


TWO ROSES, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you to blame, child love
Last Line: To him.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


UNDER THE GROUND, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between a garden and old tomb
Last Line: "yea, we the rose entomb."
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


UNDER THE ROSE, by CATHERINE Y. GLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night the blush rose clustered
Last Line: Under the rose!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


UNDERCURRENTS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Mrs. Hawkins! What a perfect rose!
Last Line: (green waters—and blue sky and golden light!)
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Summer


UNIVERSE OF THE ROSE, by TADA CHIMAKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each of these microscopic points and lines is in itself a complete world
Last Line: My bones will be adorned with the rose
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


UPON A VIRGIN KISSING A ROSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas but a single rose
Last Line: Not so much rose, as wreathe.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


UPON ROSES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a lawne, then skyes more cleare
Last Line: Gave them their ever flourishing.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


UPROOTED UPROOTER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: By the uprooting window
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Roses


VARIATIONS: 17, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tear the pink rose petal by petal
Last Line: Will light again the same.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


VENUS IN A GARDEN, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas at early morning
Last Line: Gathered from the roses red.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Love; Mythology; Roses


VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (1), by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, they say is like a rose
Last Line: Tis mutual love the gift bestows
Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses


VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (2), by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy the lab'rer in his sunday clothes
Last Line: And rouses joyous at the welcome close.
Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses


VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (3), by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never before did I quarrel with a rose
Last Line: When I lie my head on welcome pillows
Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses


VERSES TO RHYME WITH 'ROSE' (4), by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning I woke from a quite repose
Last Line: If I write any longer my verse will be prose
Subject(s): Flowers; Rhyme; Roses


VIA DOLOROSA: 2. DELIVERANCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O death, fair death, sole comforter and sweet
Last Line: Denied him: darkness hath unsealed his eyes.'
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Night; Roses; Dead, The; Bedtime


VIGIL, by RICHARD DEHMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The crimson roses burn and glow
Last Line: Or still the crimson roses glow.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses


VILLANELLE, by RICHARD MOUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wonder, will the guelder-roses bloom
Last Line: When you and I have heard the trump of doom.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


VISIONS: 4. A ROSE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose, as fair as ever saw the north
Last Line: The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Variant Title(s): Vision Of The Rose;vision: 5
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


W I S M R DO I SAY EROS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


WARUM SIND DENN DIE ROSEN SO BLASS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O dearest, canst thou tell me why
Last Line: That thou forsakest me?
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


WHAT A DEAD MAN SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear what a dead man said to me
Last Line: That the voice of the dead man spoke to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Corpses; Flowers; Roses; Secrets; Cadavers


WHAT SOLITUDE WHEN YOU REFUSED TO SPIT ON ME YOUR BUTTOCKS, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Will be atttttously more complicated more uncertain going into trance
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Roses


WHEN I AM DEAD, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not have you mourn when I am dead
Last Line: Murmur my name and smile, remembering me.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


WHEN ROSELEAVES FALL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When roseleaves fall in evenings cold
Last Line: When roseleaves fall.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Stoicism; Summer


WHEN THE ROSE HAS OPENED, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of dreams, in the midnight gloom
Last Line: For the rose and the pearl are mine, are mine!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Flowers; Pearls; Roses


WHEN THE ROSE IS DEAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rose's bloom is short; and when it goes
Last Line: "you'll seek, and find a thorn and not a rose"
Subject(s): Flowers;roses;transience; Impermanence


WHERE BEAUTY DWELLS, by JOHN MARTIN SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked in a garden of beauty today
Last Line: For you are my queen among the flowers.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses


WHERE SHALL I FIND A WHITE ROSE BLOWING?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: No more winter and no more sorrow / to-morrow
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Roses; Disappointment


WHITE ROSE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far in the inland valleys
Last Line: And the lily died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Spring


WHITE ROSE, SENT BY A YORKISH GENTLEMAN, by JAMES SOMERVILE    Poem Source                    
First Line: If this fair rose offend thy sight %placed in thy bosom fair
Subject(s): Admiration; Flowers; Roses


WHITE ROSE, SENT BY A YORKISH GENTLEMAN, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this fair rose offend thy sight %placed in thy bosom fair
Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William
Subject(s): Admiration; Flowers; Roses


WHITE ROSES, by ADELE BABBITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: White roses speak to me
Last Line: And sorrows healed of pain.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Sorrow; Sadness


WHITE ROSES, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a rose-tree grew so high
Last Line: And while the others wept I smiled.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


WHITE ROSES, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Raw as %marrow, blossoming, they burn
Last Line: Of an endless winter, drawing %blood
Subject(s): Despair; Flowers; Passion; Roses


WHITENESS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White roses set in ivory urns
Last Line: The white sea of the tears of god.
Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Jesus Christ; Night; Roses; Tears; Wine; Bedtime


WILD ROSE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do I believe? O lovely rose
Last Line: So I believe in thee!
Subject(s): Faith; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses; Belief; Creed


WILD ROSE, by JOHN MINCZESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can almost hear the words
Last Line: Another thing born without wings
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Roses


WILD ROSE/ECLIPSE, by DAVID PINK    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a crow wing passed over the single light in the back lot
Last Line: As we try to live these days beyond the romantic notions we've honed
Subject(s): Eclipses; Flowers; Nature; Roses


WILD ROSES, by RHODA S. BARCLAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flash of pink by the roadside
Last Line: O roses, I love you!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


WILD ROSES, by EDGAR FAWCETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: On long, serene midsummer days
Last Line: Like rustic maids that meekly stand %below the ladies of their land!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


WILD ROSES, by BETH CHENEY NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two lines of blushing roses go dancing down the lane
Last Line: Two lines of wild pink roses are making dreams for me.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


WILD ROSES AND SNOW, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet the sight of roses
Last Line: Whereby these roses blow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


WILD-ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the dim hot summer blue
Last Line: And brown bees drone their honey-call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Summer; Beekeeping; Bugs


WINTER ROSE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God's benison upon each happy day
Last Line: Lo! The heart blossoms, like a winter rose!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


WINTER ROSES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My garden roses long ago
Last Line: The heart of sharon's rose!
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Winter


WITH A BOUQUET OF TWELVE ROSES, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw lord buddha towering to my gate
Last Line: "in peace, that once I found in every rose."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


WITH ROSES, by SHEFFIELD PHELPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within the box whose gilded sides
Last Line: Long years ago.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses


WITH THE CURRENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rarest mood of all the year!
Last Line: As the bubbles go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Rivers; Roses; Sky; Paradise


WITHERED HOPES, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night my heart was as a fading rose
Last Line: But, like my heart, the soul o' the rose had fled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Flowers; Hope; Love; Roses; Optimism


WITHIN THE VEIL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She holds a lily in her hand
Last Line: But sure one day to be mine own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Roses


WITNESSES, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses remember; golden noons recall
Last Line: Remembers. We were young. Are we so old?
Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Roses


WOMEN AND ROSES, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream of a red-rose tree
Last Line: They circle their rose on my rose tree.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


WORDS IN A CERTAIN APPROPRIATE MODE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not music, though one has tried music
Last Line: It is not death, though one has often died
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The


WOULD I WERE A ROSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would I were a damask rose
Last Line: And blush with the snows
Subject(s): Flowers;roses


YALLER ROSES, by ELIZABETH THORNTON KOLTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Honey, bring de yaller roses
Last Line: To de lonely heart dat grieves.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


YOU AND I, by ALFONSINA STORNI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My house is full of myrtle flowers, yours is full of
Last Line: House, or gathered my roses
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses


YOU SKREEEECH YOU SCHREEEEEKKK YOU OF JANUARY 1ST, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Then again roses also jabber and clear their throats at the year's succinct beginning
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses