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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VIOLETS Matches Found: 83 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BELATED VIOLET, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Very dark the autumn sky Last Line: Violet never woke to know. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Violets; Childhood A SEPTEMBER VIOLET, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For days the peaks wore hoods of cloud Last Line: Did come again, in search of thee? Subject(s): Flowers; Violets A VIOLET SPEAKS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O passer-by, draw near! Last Line: To him who flees from death. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Violets AFRICAN VIOLETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: How the wind shrieks! Last Line: Of far-off africa. Subject(s): Africa; Flowers; Jungles; Travel; Violets; Journeys; Trips AGNES, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard, but I don't wonder at mother Last Line: Only find the good-bye and the violet. Subject(s): Flowers; Seamstresses; Violets ALPINE VIOLETS; IMITATED FROM DE BELLAY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You tiny flames of blue Last Line: I would not pass! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets AN APRIL VIOLET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "under the larch, with its tassels wet" Last Line: Only an april violet Subject(s): Death;flowers;violets; "dead, The; ANNUNCIATION, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But for the violets Last Line: Desperately butting against the concrete. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Flowers; Violets AUTUMN VIOLETS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep love for youth, and violets for the spring Last Line: A grateful ruth tho' gleaning scanty corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Violets BAY VIOLETS, by SISTER MARIS STELLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then, like a miracle, the violets came out Last Line: The children never forget them. They can never forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava Subject(s): Flowers; Violets BETRAYAL OF VIOLETS, by MOHAMMED IBRAHIM ABU SINNAH Poem Source First Line: The flutter of violets Last Line: Be the tomb of my love Subject(s): Flowers; Muslims; Violets BY FAUGHAN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For hills and woods and streams unsung Last Line: Between the silence and the wind. Subject(s): Flowers; Purple (color); Sea; Sheep; Violets; Wind; Ocean CORYDON TO PHYLLIDA WITH A BUNCH OF AUTUMN VIOLETS, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could all the measure of my love be set Last Line: And make their message what thou wilt. Farewell. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets DE AEGYPTO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the wet bank shines Last Line: If I die not in my own land. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Moon; Violets; Dead, The DEAD VIOLETS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They took them from the woodland glade Last Line: And she is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Violets; Dead, The DISCOVERY, by MAY HARRIS GRAY Poem Text First Line: Down by the moss bank Last Line: I found the pulse of god. Subject(s): Flowers; God; Violets FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 5. VIOLET, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small fragrant print of april's feet Last Line: And lay it here among my rhymes. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Passion; Violets FOR YELLOW VIOLETS, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: How like a very miracle it seems Last Line: Weep for the sterile power that is I! Subject(s): Birth; Flowers; Violets; Child Birth; Midwifery HAIKU, by VIRGINIA BRADY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Violets Last Line: The hoof of a deer Subject(s): Flowers; Violets HEAVY VIOLETS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy violets there is no way Subject(s): Violets HOW VIOLETS CAME BLUE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love on a day, wise poets tell Last Line: Her blowes did make ye blew. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Violets INSIDE THE VIOLET, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the long hedge on my parents' drive Subject(s): Violets LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 6. SPRING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But haste we! - 'tis that merry time of year Last Line: Untiring sing their olden songs anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Flowers; Primroses; Singing & Singers; Spring; Violets; Songs MY SECRET SIN, by MARGUERITE YOUNG Poem Text First Line: If I were a modest violet Last Line: With being stout ... And sweet. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets NEW SPRING: 33, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning send I violets Last Line: Tis of this that they're the token! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets OF VIOLETS, by ANGELO POLIZIANO Poem Source First Line: O beautiful violets, seeming to give such promise Last Line: Creature of sighs and weeping, because of my lady Subject(s): Flowers; Violets ON A FADED VIOLET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The odor from the flower is gone Last Line: Is such as mine should be. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets ON A VIOLET IN HER BREAST, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how this violet which before Last Line: And they to thee lend ornament! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets ON SOME VIOLETS PLANTED IN MY GARDEN BY A FRIEND, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD Poem Text First Line: Catherine, though not from fortune's glittering stores Last Line: The changing climate and the stormy sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza Subject(s): Flowers; Violets SEA VIOLET, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white violet Last Line: Frost, a star edges with its fire. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Violets SONG (12), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, when the grave shall open for me Last Line: The bending and dark blue violet. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Violets; Tombs; Tombstones SONG: 30, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Violets, sweet violets Last Line: Many a scented violet. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets SONNET, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had no thought of violets of late Last Line: Of violets, and my soul's forgotten gleam. Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Flowers; Violets SONNET TO A VIOLET, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: Spring's sweet attendant! Modest simple flower Last Line: These bloom to charm -- that, hid -- neglected dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 5. THE VIOLETS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went not to the dean's unbid Last Line: The violets lay, two white, one blue. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE FADED VIOLET, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thought is folded in thy leaves! Last Line: For this, I fold thee in my song. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE LESSER BEAUTY, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are the first wild violet of the year Last Line: We would not barter for things more divine! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets; Wellesley College THE PURPLE VIOLET, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Down by a fairy pool there grew, long years, long years ago Last Line: And trust their precious color to the hands of god to keep. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Violets THE VIOLET, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the down line, and close beside the rail Last Line: Unheeding, thunders on. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Flowers; Railroads; Violets; Railways; Trains THE VIOLET, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the dusty road of life Last Line: And life grow sanctified again. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VIOLET, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Violets! - deep-blue violets! Last Line: The bending and deep-blue violet! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VIOLET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Violet! Sweet violet! Last Line: Which made thee all that nature meant thee! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VIOLET, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The violet in her greenwood bower Last Line: Remain'd the tear of parting sorrow. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VIOLET, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O faint, delicious, spring-time violet Last Line: Thy velvet leaf. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VIOLET, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in a green and shady bed Last Line: In sweet humility. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VIOLET AND THE ROSE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The violet invited my kiss Last Line: And I wept for the deed I had done! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VIOLET FARM, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I might choose my simple lot Last Line: Tis I would have a violet farm. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ambition; Farm Life; Flowers; Violets; Agriculture; Farmers THE VIOLET SPEAKS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think not yon star Last Line: Of years, is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VIOLET-GIRL, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fancy will continually rehearse Last Line: The veil that hides our vilest mortal sore. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Flowers; Poverty; Violets THE YELLOW VIOLET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When beechen buds begin to swell Last Line: That made the woods of april bright. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Violets TO A FRIEND WHO SENT ME A BOX OF VIOLETS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, more than violets Last Line: Bless thee, the giver. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Violets TO A LADY WITH A VIOLET, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though fate upon this faded flower Last Line: Its soul is with me still. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Flowers; Violets TO A VIOLET FOUND ON ALL SAINTS' DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belated wanderer of the ways of spring Last Line: Life grows, through death, as beautiful as you. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Flowers; Violets; Allhallowmas; Allhallows TO A WOOD-VIOLET, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this secluded shrine Last Line: Our souls forever one. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Violets TO E. ARUNDELL, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature! Thou mayest fume and fret Last Line: There's but one white violet. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets TO THE VIOLET, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet violet, who knows Last Line: Each bank of sundering death. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flowers; Violets TO VIOLET (WITH A BUNCH OF NAMESAKES), by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a maid - I am afraid Last Line: My rhymes are filled with u. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Violets; Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations TO VIOLETS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome mainds of honour! Last Line: Poore girles! Neglected. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets UNCOVERING SPRING VIOLETS BEFORE THEIR TIME, by BILLY C. CLARK Poem Source First Line: I raked some winter leaves away Last Line: Anxiety had been mine Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Leaves; Nature; Violets UNDER THE VIOLETS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hands are cold; her face is white Last Line: Lies withered where the violets blow. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Violets; Graveyards VILLANELLE OF VIOLETS, by THERESSA M. DEFOSSET Poem Text First Line: My flower shall be the violet Last Line: I make my choice with no regret. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets VIOLET, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little violet Variant Title(s): Calling The Viole Subject(s): Flowers; Violets VIOLET AND OAK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Down through the trees is my green walk Last Line: A little violet in the grass.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Flowers; Trees; Violets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation VIOLET UNDER THE SNOW, by RACHEL CAPEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source First Line: To thee I would bring Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Violets VIOLET: 1. PRELUDE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was a sweet white wildwood violet Last Line: The artificial flower of my ideal. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets VIOLET: 2. CHRISTMAS-EVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April-hearted violet Last Line: Into flower. Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Love; Violets; Nativity, The VIOLETS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Violets, violets, sweet march violets Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Flowers; Violets VIOLETS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gusty wind o'ersweeps the garden close Last Line: Beneath the golden shadows of the palm. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets VIOLETS, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come not, fair one, to thy hand of snow Last Line: Our dew and air have been, love's balmy tears and sighs! Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Flowers; Violets VIOLETS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Violets, shy violets! Last Line: Will wait on mine and gladden me! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Nature; Violets VIOLETS, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: If the dawn brings violets Last Line: In your eyes. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets VIOLETS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A friend brought sweetest violets Last Line: "for thee his morning star he sets." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Spring; Violets VIOLETS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet violets! From your humble beds Last Line: With all that wealth bestows, or pageant heraldry. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Flowers; Violets VIOLETS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, lovely, lovely violets Last Line: They told our fortunes true. Subject(s): Flowers; Violets VIOLETS FOR MOTHER, by IRMA BIDDLE IMHOFF Poem Text First Line: The flowers I bring you grew not under glass Last Line: It's of your virtues that these flowers sing. Subject(s): Flowers; Mothers; Violets VIOLETS IN SAINT MARK'S SQUARE, by DIEGO VALERI Poem Source First Line: That face so faintly colored Last Line: In new-come march Subject(s): Flowers; March (month); Violets VIOLETS SENT IN A LITTLE BOX, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let them lie, yes, let them lie Last Line: Richer scent through dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Flowers; Violets WABASH VIOLETS, by EARL MARBLE Poem Text First Line: What? Sho'! You don't! Do you mean it, though? Last Line: My love for them now is sp'iled. Subject(s): Boston; Flowers; Indiana; Marigolds; Poppies; Violets WAR IS KIND: 23, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a land where lived no violets Last Line: "there are no violets here." Variant Title(s): The Violets Subject(s): Flowers; Violets; War WHEN SPRING COMES BACK, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring comes back the violets lift Last Line: Among the garden mazes. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Violets WHICH SHALL I CHOOSE?, by DELLE BLOSS DAVENPORT Poem Text First Line: I am looking for a nosegay Last Line: "we love, not 'glitter,' but modesty." Subject(s): Flowers; Modesty; Violets WHITE VIOLETS IN SOUTH HADLEY, by CYNTHIA ZARIN Poem Source First Line: So many of them wicking the lawns Last Line: Had left the image of its pressure here Subject(s): Flowers; Violets WILD VIOLET, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Violet, violet, sparkling with dew Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Violets |
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