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Subject: ROSES Matches Found: 806 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "AL NIGHT BY THE ROSE, ROSE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 rosesas 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 wakedthen 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: Maureenmaureen! 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 daython 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 watersand 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 |
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