Potential Titles: Flower
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somethingdarkerFlowers above and thorns below - A.L.O.E. "The Sinners' Portion"
Awakes the flowers that long had slept - A.L.O.E. "Song of Joy"
And bury that flower to ferment - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"
Drooping eyes of jasmine-flowers - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
Split as flowers spun of glass - Harold Acton "Ventilation"
Hoping they will mistake me for a flower - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"
A perfect flush of weeds and flowers - Sandra Alcosser "Cry"
The night-wind rocks the sleeping flowers - Louisa May Alcott "Fairy Song"
New leaves after her dead flowers - Richard Aldington "New Love"
Witchy trinities mixed spells in flower cups - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Of potent herb and flower - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Flower forests and the petals of stars - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Bordered with flowers of stone - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Green fields and flowering banks among - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.III--Noonday"
Little flowers in rustic ways remote - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Belted with the moonbeams, and flowering with the stars - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXLIII: Angela as Watchman" transl. by Dr. B. Stevenson Stanoyevich
Everyone stabbed flowers on a grave - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"
Faced with the flower of light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Angels and birds"
Grow flowers with your lungs - Art 25: Art in the 25th Century "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Flowers that blow in May - Frank D. Ashburn "Sonnet"
The flowers have no new faces - Margaret Lee Ashley "In April"
Flowers and thorns exist together - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Like ghosts of flowers returned - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"
With the flowers in their flight - Libbie C. Baer "When My Soul Findeth Wings"
Ambrosial flowers of heavenly song - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Getting into a bed of flowers - Mary Jo Bang "The Opening"
Every flower brings bitter meed - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"
While pale Medea culled her deadly flowers - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
Smiling over broken flowers - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"
flower this hope to the springtime - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"
Dreams flower in the cells of night - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"
But weeds, in time, are flowers - Ardelia Maria Barton "Nature's Plan"
To flowers of thought most deep - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Water Spirit"
A sweet flower for the bee - Ardelia Maria Barton "We Know What the Harvest Will Be"
Fragrant as the flowers of the May - Cora C. Bass "The Missing Path"
Set upon the scented Lotus flower - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Tea brewed from last summer's flowers - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Lovely flowers in gloomy forests grow - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Flowers that burn with crystalline accord - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Entwined with flowers and poison-leaves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"
Where brilliant flowers blow in open meads - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"
Who hung up fruits and flowers - Park Benjamin "Lines Sent with a Bouquet"
Pigeons in an empty flower trough - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"
Follow the flower that evades capture - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
The nodding assent of flowers - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"
The strange sounds of flowers - Richard Blanco "When I was a Little Cuban Boy"
A nation wept its fallen flowers - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
A honeycomb of fruit and flowers - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"
Elastic humbleness of flowers and weeds - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"
The flame will go down in the flower - Arna Bontemps "Length of Moon"
As the devil's flowers do not give birth to seeds - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 1: Temptation"
Stars of flowers brightening the moss - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
Thorny bud and poisonous flower - Emily Bronte "The Elder's Rebuke"
Of glory's wreath and pleasure's flower - Emily Bronte "Plead for Me"
All the flowers are praying - Emily Bronte "The Two Children"
Stands at the portals of a world in flower - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"
If they bear the flowers of life or death - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
Poured forth strange flower - William Cullen Bryant "The Burial-Place"
A flower born of rebel paths - Sue Budin "Mercury in Retrograde"
Wrote their epitaph in pale wood flowers - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Jubilant flowers and nectar-breathing fruits - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Flowers of the dogwood blow over the pale anemones - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Lifting its sculptured flowers to the beams - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
For hours, the flowers were enough - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
Flowers that yield their breath - Tommaso Campanella "LV. To Annibale Caraccioli, a Writer of Eclogues" transl. by John Addington Symonds
As a serpent coils into a flower - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Knee deep in fairy flowers - Ethna Carbery "In Tir-na'n-Og"
Bud to flower in the time of spring - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall
Flowers around our banquet flung - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
From rebel soil a noble flower - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall
The nuptials of flowers and the marriage of streams - Giosue Carducci "To Aurora" transl. by Frank Sewall
My rescuing flower's name - Cyrus Cassells "The White Iris Beautifies Me"
The madness of the spendthrift flower - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"
Mind the flowers of pleasure - Willa Cather "Poppies on Ludlow Castle"
Drifts of wild-thorn flowers - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
In each withered autumn flower - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"
Those flowers were already memory - Chen Chen "First Light"
Wrought with scarlet flowers - Wilfred Childe "Age Gothique Dore"
Presiding over vespertine flowers and dusky courts - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"
With Love in the flower of dawn - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Flowers that skirt the eternal frost - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
The flower I lost yesterday - Hilda Conkling "Humming-Bird"
And flowers in the dark - Hilda Conkling "Spring Song"
The authority of Flowers - CAConrad "Leave Something Quiet in Shell of My Ear"
The flower you must never name - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
Stoop to shade the scented cups of flowers - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
The troth of flowers and stars - Benjamin Copeland "Beauty"
Something has flowered within the discontent - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Praying hands in tree and flower - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"
The souls of all the flowers - Nathalia Crane "The History of Honey"
And planted the seeds of her flowers - Adelaide Crapsey "Cry of the Nymph to Eros"
A cap of flowery hawthorn - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Delicate flowers of sin - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For Daughters of Magdalen"
Flaunt a red flower in the face of time - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
The jostling and shouting of merry flowers - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
Steeped in burning flowers - ee cummings "Crepuscule"
With April feet like sudden flowers - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
A flower of so pure surprise - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
Make early flowers of all things - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"
Stoops to gather the golden flower of day - Olive Custance "The Storm"
A crown of honey-flowers drip to ivory - H.D. "Holy Satyr"
And a crown of honey-flowers - H.D. "Holy Satyr"
To name and watch each flower - H.D. "Nossis"
Tear the full flowers - H.D. "Orion Dead"
No flower ever parted silver - H.D. "Pear Tree"
Soft kisses like bright flowers - H.D. "Telesila"
Whose happy heart has power to make a stone a flower - W.H. Davies "The Example"
Knows not flowers from stones - William H. Davies "The Hawk"
No sound flowers above please - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Fringed with moss and flowers - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu "Grotte d'ou sort ce clair ruisseau" translated by Felicia Hemans (Author attribution in source only gives 'Chaulieu' as the poet's name. Based on the translator's dates, this poet seems most likely as the author.)
A fragile flower in the wind - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz [Untitled] transl. by Samuel Beckett
Flowered frost congeals - Walter de la Mare "Alone"
Her flowers of glamourie spilled - Walter de la Mare "Beware!"
Her flowers in vision flame - Walter de la Mare "Music"
And the flower of the gorse burned on - Walter de la Mare "Sotto Voce"
Whose marble flowers bloom - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"
I shall miss him when the flowers come - "The Dead Brother"
Every flower smells the song of memory - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Sprouted two intricate flowers in our minds - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Might bear you a gorgeous flower - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
The blue-flowers crown of ecstasy - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets I"
Each flower lifts a golden chalice - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 1: June"
Like a bed for fairy flowers - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"
If the flowers had wings - Mary Mapes Dodge "Oh, No!"
A flower absent from all bouquets - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
A waste garden, flowering at its will - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Curious flowers, before unknown - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Flowers that were stained with moonlight - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
A bride's face of flowers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
That red flower of memory - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VIII: On the Pier of Boulogne"
The faultless flower of light - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
And fire shall be my flower - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"
Whispers through mist his flowered prayer - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"
Candelabra lit with flowers - Helen Parry Eden "The Ascent"
And set the flints with flowers - Helen Parry Eden "Lines Written for D.E."
Of all joys the flower and crown - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."
The crown and flower of the world - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"
Speaking by the tongues of flowers - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
And even the sleeping flowers - George Allan England "One Summer Night"
With flowers and bullets in my heart - Martin Espada "Flowers and Bullets"
The fairest flower of mortal frame- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
Held close by flowers too beauteous for the day - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
The voices of these hurt women flowering - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
Flowering like marigolds or thistles - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
The heart of a flower on fire - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"
The flowers are made of glass - Megan Fernandes "Quentin Compson at the Natural History Museum, Harvard University"
And pink bindweed dimly, steadily flower - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"
Inhabiting flaxen flowers of space - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 9"
Her omniscient inflexible flowers - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 12"
Slipped from a flowering sun - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten III"
In a stream clear with flowering stones - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen D"
Faithful as dew to the drooping flowers - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Trodden underfoot like wayside flowers - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
And not a question for the faded flowers - Robert Frost "Flower-Gathering"
The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee - Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song"
We always locked the flowers outside - Robert Frost "Locked Out"
Her early leaf's a flower - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
With the breath of many flowers - Robert Frost "Rose Pogonias"
Give the buried flower a dream - Robert Frost "To the Thawing Wind"
Some resting flower of yesterday's delight - Robert Frost "The Tuft of Flowers"
To spill themselves like flowers - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
When the last star flowers - Zona Gale "A Meeting"
Lie upon her grave like flowers - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
Let your eyes flower from the dusk and flame - Zona Gale "Return"
Shall be true of every flower - Zona Gale "Roses"
The silence flowers in song - Zona Gale "To a Poet"
Fall from any mortal flower - Zona Gale "Troth"
All flower-still she moved - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"
That shone thickening on flowers - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"
Soft flowers wreathing a hero's sword - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"
By sunshine, by rosewater, by the cactus flowers - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"
Fixing the flowers on a stranger's grave - Andrea Gibson "Radio"
Which dwells not in fruit or in flower - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Has made of the stars its flowers - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
A decision about the dead flowers - Louise Gluck "March"
Flowers of flaming snow - Louis Golding "Wounded Soldiers"
Where many a garden flower grows wild - Oliver Goldsmith "The Village Preacher"
A flower that blossoms without light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
The herbs grew flowering over the land - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"
Every flower faces away - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"
The richest flowers of heaven bloom on the brink of darkness - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Some flower of courage - Ivor Gurney "Fire in the Dusk"
Crushed flowers and forlorn - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"
Is binding on the nearest flower - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
And joy must surely flower - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"
Masses of memoried flowers - Ivor Gurney "To His Love"
Tell deep secrets to the Flower - Hafiz "The Divan XL" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Mistaking it for a flower - Radclyffe Hall "On the Hill-Side"
Our clock should be the closing flowers - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"
When reddest flowers are black - Thomas Hardy "The Garden Seat"
Flowers that have cupped the sun - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
The dime store flower fields - francine j. harris "i used to write"
Such delicate flowers falling silent - Leslie Harrison "[December]"
As flowers wane in summer's heat - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XIV"
Red and blue flowers in the wheat - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIV"
The passing breath of flowers bright - F.W. Harvey "The Wind's Grief"
And yet the flowers don't quit opening - Terrance Hayes "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy"
Of earth dreaming its root in flowers and snow - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"
The kite a thin-stemmed flower - Seamus Heaney "A Kite for Aibhin"
The flowering myrtle blows through tall arcades - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
To raise from earth a blighted flower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
That nursed each infant flower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
With flowers of Eden twines - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Venom in the scented flower - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
With her warm flower heart - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A City Guest"
A moon drowned flower - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Evermore"
Where no flower can wither - George Herbert "The Flower"
Each flower has wept - Robert Herrick "Corinna's Going a-Maying"
The flowers, orchids, all made of silk - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
The myth of flower girls selling futures - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"
Two petals more on every flower - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Those flowers made of light - Thomas Hood "I Remember"
Mark the flowers how they wither - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Flowers that spring from the same root below - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
No dream of frost to the flowers - William Dean Howells "The First Cricket"
Autumn flower in the frozen rain - Langston Hughes "Troubled Woman"
And bitterly hang on the flowerless air - Richard Hughes "The Image"
As flowers upon the sky - Aldous Huxley "Italy"
None but the flowers have seen - Aldous Huxley "Two Songs 1 [Thick-flowered is the trellis]"
The house strewn with flowers - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Flowers I smelled in October - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"
And rained down flowers of speech - "IV: Mexica Otoncuicatl | An Otomi Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
The burning incense of flowers - "IV: Mexica Otoncuicatl | An Otomi Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
The jewels of saddest flowers - "IX: Otro Tlaocolcuica Otomitl | An Otomi Song of Sadness" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Mimic flowers from out my silk and velvet garden - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Scarlet flowers breathing in the darkness - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"
Gift my rings as circlets of celestial flowers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Flower and fruit overflow - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Old vows are like old flowers - Helene Johnson "Remember Not"
Before the time of flowers - Lionel Johnson "Ash Wednesday"
Beside the misty flowers of purple lavender - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Tremulous beliefs, agonized hopes, and ashen flowers - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"
The circuits of the flowers - Sara Eliza Johnson "Vapor"
Flowers to bring worms and wasps - Ashley M. Jones "Photosynthesis"
Walks among the flowers to my doorway - June Jordan "It's Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean"
My flesh clay and flowers and thorns - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
Distant from bees and flowers - Fady Joudah "Unacknowledged Pollinators"
Pale flowers on his mantle, dark leaves on his hair - James Joyce "Strings in the Earth and Air"
Flower that boasts no fragrance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Third: The Death of Love" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Flowers lured from their buds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Enthroned upon the lotus flower - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
A scrawl diagrammed, flower and all - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"
Like flowers ache for spring - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
The flower will bloom another year - John Keats "Faery Song"
Flowering laurels spring from diamond vases - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Cool-rooted flowers fragrant-eyed - John Keats "Psyche"
The sweetest flower wild nature yields - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"
Later flowers for the bees - John Keats "To Autumn"
New bees explore new flowers - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Woos you with hands full of flowers - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"
A fragrant land with flowers wrought - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
Who culled a garland from the flowers - Henry Kendall "Adam Lindsay Gordon"
A trophy pinned with dead flowers and scorn - Vandana Khanna "Novice"
Then treats you like the second flower he sees - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
Young July with all her flowers - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"
The honey from forests of flowers - Joyce Kilmer "Prayer to Bragi"
Who wed a flower wife - Joyce Kilmer "Said the Rose"
Never shy of flowers - Kim Unsong "Blessed"
The richest flowers blowing - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"
Erupt into flower - Galway Kinnell "Cemetery Angels"
Through the green fuse drives the flower - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"
Had been nothing but flowers - Ted Kooser "The China Painters"
Broken with curled flower buds - Archibald Lampman "April"
The ghosts of the dead flowers - Archibald Lampman "Ballade of Summer's Sleep"
Two flowers that love the light - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
Where scant flowers bloom - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IX: To that Rare and Deep-Red Burnet-Moth Only to Be Met with in the Burren"
Run down the labyrinth of the sinister flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"
Clear like flowers undone - D.H. Lawrence "Green"
In the flicker of a flower - D.H. Lawrence "Pentecostal"
Old maps made of flowers - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"
Crushed her gathered flowers - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory fo the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
To lift this frail, inconsequent flower - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
Sprinkles life with loveliest flowers - Henry S. Leigh "The Ballad of the Barytone"
Sends the gentle breeze to woo the flower - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]
The grain of hopes that yet shall flower - Amy Levy "A March Day in London"
The boundless jealousy of the flower - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Laughing across the lotus-flowers - Li Po "On the Banks of Jo-yeh" transl. by Arthur Waley
Lotus flowers made skirts for her - Li Shang-yin "[At eight stealing a mirror glance]" transl. by Burton Watson
The boundless jealousy of the flower - Li T'ai-Po "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: "Peaceful Brightness"" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
None of your blood will bring a flower - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"
Artificial flowers bloom in the dead bodies of universes - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
The slow plan of the flowering grass - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
What is fortune among fading flowers? - Sandra J. Lindow "The Wolf from the Door"
The delicate flowers of delight - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"
Storm clouds turned to blue-bell flowers - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"
His fairy chain of blooming amaranthine flow'rs - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]
In an ancient melee of night flowers - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"
From the trellis of flowering thorn - Liu K'o-chuang "Leaving the City" transl. by Burton Watson
The flower of our heart - Amy Lowell "Petals"
Lost in the sap of a flower seed - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
Herald of rich Summer's myriad flowers - Amy Lowell "To an Early Daffodil"
Whispered the secrets of earth to the flowers - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Flower with surfaces of ice - Amy Lowell "The Weather-Cock Points South"
Fairest flowers o'er the grave of buried time - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Her poisen [sic] flowers and her hidden chain - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
A great white flower of solitude - Dorothea Mackellar "The Moon and the Morning"
This grief of tortured flowers - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
The flower dies the day it's born - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen
The exotic names of every flower and leaf - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
As perfume clings to wounded flowers - George Martin "Hallowe'en in Canada"
Or foreign flowers by foreign streams - George Martin "Unknown"
A hollowed singularity exists in flowers - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Your voice broke like a flower - Florence Ripley Mastin "From the Telephone"
No music from the flowers - Adrian Matejka "17 Kinds of Hungry"
Flowers on the conquistador's tongue - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
If the flowers are taken into account - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Plucked the sanguine flower of pain - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"
The wreaths brought from the floral shrine - James E. McGirt "Victoria the Queen"
A rope vase of flowers - Medbh McGuckian "Garden Homage"
Of wilting plants and fainting flowers - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"
The purple flowers of fragrant June - Claude McKay "The Plateau"
Like a storm-swept flower - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Paint field and flower in nature's hues - H.P. McKnight "Dedication"
Of happy days and faded flowers - Frank J. Medina "Parting"
Deeper than flower and fruit - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Of the flowers flooding grass - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
The bees chose their flowers - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Brings heaven to the flower - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
The lark above the flowers - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Boutique sticks stones dead flowers - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"
The rooted liberty of flowers - Alice Meynell "The English Metres"
Fruit and flower on the same branch - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
Will touch a hundred flowers - Edna St Vincent Millay "Afternoon on a Hill"
Flowers and song and you - Edna St. Vincent Millay "To Kathleen"
Flowers and you and song - Edna St. Vincent Millay "To Kathleen"
As the unattended flower - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
To commune with the lonely orphan flowers - Robert Montgomery "Melancholy" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Full of flowers and ideas - jessica Care moore "I used to be a roller coaster girl"
Of flowers dead and letters never sent - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
The seeds of life's queen flowers - Irene Elder Morton "My Garden Wall"
Now cast on flowers fresh and green - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
Don a flower crown for the sacrifice - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Sheath of thunderbolts and flowers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner
Flowers to kiss her - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"
Vagrant flowers of legal pestilences - Pablo Neruda "The Beggars" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Like a flower of eternal water - Pablo Neruda "Bombardment/Curse" translated by Richard Schaaf
A flower with thousands of nameless petals - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Solitude bears no flowers - Pablo Neruda "The Invisible Man" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Your cargo of iron flowers - Pablo Neruda "Midday XL" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
A languid crown of the sea's flowers - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Here desolate flowers were born - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The light of hidden flowers - Pablo Neruda "Sonnet XXV"
Punctuated by red flowers like burns - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
Evidence unfolding like a flower - Pablo Neruda "With Quevedo, In Springtime" transl. by William O'Daly
A flower your winter gardens hold - E. Nesbit "Death"
The keen wind robs the flowers - E. Nesbit "March Violets"
Flower running to poisonous seed - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
A frenzy of magenta flowers - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"
We tired of flowers - Meredith Nicholson "'Heartache'"
Through lessons of the spring-time flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Prince's Treasure"
Tell it to the wondering flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Secret"
A bud before the flower - Meredith Nicholson "Sweetheart Time"
Make flower and fruit in me - Meredith Nicholson "To the Seasons"
Flesh unto flowers, and flame unto wind - Edward J. O'Brien "Song"
The flowers of Eden sprung - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Twine a chaplet of deathless flowers - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Like a million flowers on fire - Mary Oliver "The Buddha’s Last Instruction"
Through the raging flowers of the snow - Mary Oliver "Evening Star"
Little flowers made from red tape - Matthew Olzmann "Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz"
Whatever flowered had to fade - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"
The stone whose flower opens inward - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"
Could revere the simplest flower - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Hymn Written for a Sunday School"
That flowered at Sappho's tread - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"
And the choirs of flowers - Linda Pastan "Life and Death on Masterpiece"
Flowers with knife-sharp petals - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"
As if pearls to flowers were grown - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Like the breath of morning to half-withered flowers - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Disclosure's a pretty flower - Carl Phillips "The Distance and the Spoils"
Toward the flower's throat - Carl Phillips "If You Go Away"
For me to love among the flowers - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "[Will you go with me]"
The wind in the mallow flowers - Po Chu'i "Pouring Out My Feelings after Parting from Yuan Chen" transl. by Burton Watson
Flower on memory's lonely stream - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
Soft dew-drop of my heart's one flower - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Crowned with stars for flowers - John Presland "The Deluge"
Form trenches for the frailer flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "In the Hardt Wald"
Striving seeds and budding flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Thoughts at Ajaccio"
Robbed the flowers of their melodies - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Windy June"
Prate not of failing hopes, of fading flowers - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Thy flower is writ of grief - Theodore H. Rand "Beauty"
Pillars of bone flower - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
The billow which would woo the flowery coast - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Fruit and flowers I sent in my stead - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Another flower for the altar - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Flower by dream-ghosts planted - Edgell Rickword "Grave Joys"
A spirit-planted, fadeless flower - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"
Blue-forked flowers of lightning - Lola Ridge "After Storm"
Audacious as hibiscus flowers - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Stately as a flower of cactus - Lola Ridge "Shadow"
I know you flower darkly - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"
Flowers to cut the heart - Rihaku "Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin" (translated by Ezra Pound and others, attribution unclear)
No more than they own flowers - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
That fashion a silence of flowers - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)
Your waitings on the marriages of flowers - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
Soul of the lily flower - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Spiritual Love"
Dead flowers on the wind - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"
What flowers find heart to die - Rennell Rodd "If Any One Return"
Autumn's wind uncloses the heart of all your flowers - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"
Nor yet the flower of perfect days - Alice Wellington Rollins "The New Day"
Wave living flower and living leaf - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Beauty deck the Spring in flowers - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
The sweetest flow'r that gems the wild - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Enamelled bright with flowers of every sort - anonymous? "The Royal Court"
Wishes, wolves, and flower kings - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
Ablaze with myriad flowers - Edna K. Saloomey "My Lebanon"
Without a hint of flower or fruit - William Saphier "Etchings Not to Be Read Aloud: The Old Prize Fighter"
With the fairies in chalice of flowers - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
A nanosecond flowers into eternity - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
From the bud she lures the flower - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Flowers blooming buried sunlight - Fritz Schnack "Blooming Sunlight" transl. by William Saphier
Offering me their flowers and then their leaves - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"
Fields of needles arranged into flowers - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
As they disappear through the tunnel of flowers - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"
Hardly now we see the flowers - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"
For the thirsting flowers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Cloud"
Strewed flowers upon the barren way - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Overgrown with azure moss and flowers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Corrupt a landscape through the planting of foreign flowers - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Who confide in trumpet flowers - Maurya Simon "Angels"
Petals blown from flower-hued stars - Edith Sitwell "Fireworks"
The grey flowers and the fallen grass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"
A throne of flowering ebony - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Poison dagger, dragon flower - Richard Solomon "Galatea of the Spheres"
Renew both fruit and flower - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"
Scatters flowers from an ample garden - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
The azure blaze of scentless flowers - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
A flower of elfin gold - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
When that flower of fear had broken - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
To pluck that flower of doom - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
Crown the skull with flower or thorn - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
A sudden flower blooms in my heart - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"
My flowers are reflected in your mind - Wallace Stevens "The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches"
Steal the odors of the sleeping flowers - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
A dread and pitiless flowering - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Give me no coil of daemon flowers - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"
Frost upon the eyes of flowers - Muriel Stuart "Leda"
Go hence with flowers and weeds - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"
Blown buds of barren flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"
Fervent flower made fruitful from the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Fruitless husk and fugitive flower - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Cold and clean as her faint salt flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
So thick with thornless flowers - P.D.T. "Lost Treasures"
A counterfeiter of ways flowering like snow - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
With the flowers and fruits of the Six Seasons - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"
Dew and frost flowering and withering - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
Whose inlaid marbles mock the flowers - Bayard Taylor "The Odalisque" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Deadheading flowers after their first blooming - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"
Than a flower could hold - Sara Teasdale "August Moonrise"
The blue flame of the flower - Sara Teasdale "Blue Squills"
The fragile secret of a flower - Sara Teasdale "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
As a flower is forgotten - Sara Teasdale "Let It Be Forgotten"
As the rain can do without the flowers - Edward Thomas "What Will They Do?"
Not stir a flower without troubling of a star - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
In phantom flame of flag and flower - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
Wear a wreath of fading flowers - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"
The courtesy of who wears a flower - Luis Lloréns Torres "Bolivar" transl. by Muna Lee
A volume of pressed flowers - Iris Tree "[My devotion kneels to you]"
Each flower a surrender - Natasha Trethewey "South"
As bees drink the sweets from a cluster of flowers - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
With crowns of kelp and frantic purple flowers - Genya Turovskaya "Wisterical"
An azure flower secretly blooms - Perhat Tursun "The Tarim River" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
With the voice of a flower - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"
Beauty folded in the flowers and leaves - Jehangir Jivaji Vakil "Revelation"
The flower of the heart's ideal - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
From galaxy to flower divine - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "What Is Now"
Across the fair and flowery uplands - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets III: Moving Bells"
Meadows whereon grow the flowers of flame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Flowers in the place of riches - "VII: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Hold secret a bird's flowering - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"
Coax flowers into stories - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Ram, Laborer"
The odor of flowers that reaches a scream - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Bindeth the flower - Charles William Wallace "Chorus"
For the rarest flower seeks - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
The smile of wave and flower - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
Sickle made of blooming flowers - Charles William Wallace "The Sickle of Flowers"
Would feed on brighter flowers - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
Where gentian flowers make mimic sky - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
Last year among the flowers - Wei Ying-wu "To Send to Li Tan and Yuan Hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Dream flowers drawn by moving veils - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"
The seeds that wake to flowers - Kate Louise Wheeler "Hidden Treasures"
The swaying stem of some exalted flower - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Faintest breath of flowers stirred - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Flower of the eternities - John Hall Wheelock "Vaudeville"
Contented with my flowers for stars - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"
Flowers from off the lap of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Chaque baiser vaut un roman"
In hues of tulip twilight flowers - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"
Pale as the ghost of a flower - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"
Perversities of flower and fruit - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
The vascular system of flowering things - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"
Over hills where famine flowers - John Wieners "For Huncke"
With the gold of the flower of March - Oscar Wilde "Magdalen Walks"
Half the names of the flowers - C. K. Williams "Doves"
That there were flowers also in hell - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
Weakest flower shall be our trust - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
Lift your flowers on bitter stems - William Carlos Williams "Chickory and Daisies"
Ice cream in the shape of flowers - William Carlos Williams "The Delicacies"
One thing braver than all flowers - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"
Forty flowers on twenty stems - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"
A flower or two picked from mud - William Carlos Williams "March"
Seeking the flowers of March - William Carlos Williams "March"
Wall flowers that once were flame - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"
Pink confused with white flowers - William Carlos Williams "The Pot of Flowers"
The souring flowers of the bedraggled poplars - William Carlos Williams "Smell!"
Flower that splits the rocks - William Carlos Williams "A Sort of a Song"
The purple flowers of Dis burn their young foreheads - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"
Because the flowers of life are bitter - Adolf Wolff "Confidences"
Ill befall the yellow flowers - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"
Withered is the guardian flower - William Wordsworth "A Wren's Nest"
Too sure of its perfect flower - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
A clever dance of flowers - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
Into the place of decayed flowers - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A rain of various flowers falls - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A carrion flower never in bloom - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"
Over a flower's invitation - Jane Yolen "Time Piece"
Names of flowers and warblers and stars - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
The splendid flower of their delight - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Drinking honey of the night's flowers - Francis Brett Young "Moths"
Wind and rain await the opening flower - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson
Crown us like flowers - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Curious flowers that never fall - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Which is the last savage flower - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
They bloom blood-flowers in the tearful dew - "Adonium" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
Always a sparrow flitting in the flowerbeds - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
Brandishing flowerbuds of desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
And ascends flower-crowned to her vernal throne - Mrs. E.C. Stedman "Flight of the Birds" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Face the flower-formed mirror - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Evening comes with an onslaught]" transl. by Burton Watson
Burned with tears and flower-melt - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Wormseed oil and nightshade flower-shine - Regan Good "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"
From time's full-flowering bough - Algernon Swinburne "Change"
And all my heart-flowers withered - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"
Until the Hell-flower dies down - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"
Let us revel amid the shield-flowers - "XVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Waited in the light of our thousand-flower sun - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
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Awakes the flowers that long had slept - A.L.O.E. "Song of Joy"
And bury that flower to ferment - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"
Drooping eyes of jasmine-flowers - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
Split as flowers spun of glass - Harold Acton "Ventilation"
Hoping they will mistake me for a flower - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"
A perfect flush of weeds and flowers - Sandra Alcosser "Cry"
The night-wind rocks the sleeping flowers - Louisa May Alcott "Fairy Song"
New leaves after her dead flowers - Richard Aldington "New Love"
Witchy trinities mixed spells in flower cups - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Of potent herb and flower - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Flower forests and the petals of stars - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Bordered with flowers of stone - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Green fields and flowering banks among - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.III--Noonday"
Little flowers in rustic ways remote - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Belted with the moonbeams, and flowering with the stars - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXLIII: Angela as Watchman" transl. by Dr. B. Stevenson Stanoyevich
Everyone stabbed flowers on a grave - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"
Faced with the flower of light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Angels and birds"
Grow flowers with your lungs - Art 25: Art in the 25th Century "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Flowers that blow in May - Frank D. Ashburn "Sonnet"
The flowers have no new faces - Margaret Lee Ashley "In April"
Flowers and thorns exist together - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Like ghosts of flowers returned - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"
With the flowers in their flight - Libbie C. Baer "When My Soul Findeth Wings"
Ambrosial flowers of heavenly song - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Getting into a bed of flowers - Mary Jo Bang "The Opening"
Every flower brings bitter meed - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"
While pale Medea culled her deadly flowers - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
Smiling over broken flowers - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"
flower this hope to the springtime - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"
Dreams flower in the cells of night - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"
But weeds, in time, are flowers - Ardelia Maria Barton "Nature's Plan"
To flowers of thought most deep - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Water Spirit"
A sweet flower for the bee - Ardelia Maria Barton "We Know What the Harvest Will Be"
Fragrant as the flowers of the May - Cora C. Bass "The Missing Path"
Set upon the scented Lotus flower - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Tea brewed from last summer's flowers - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Lovely flowers in gloomy forests grow - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Flowers that burn with crystalline accord - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Entwined with flowers and poison-leaves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"
Where brilliant flowers blow in open meads - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"
Who hung up fruits and flowers - Park Benjamin "Lines Sent with a Bouquet"
Pigeons in an empty flower trough - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"
Follow the flower that evades capture - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
The nodding assent of flowers - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"
The strange sounds of flowers - Richard Blanco "When I was a Little Cuban Boy"
A nation wept its fallen flowers - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
A honeycomb of fruit and flowers - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"
Elastic humbleness of flowers and weeds - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"
The flame will go down in the flower - Arna Bontemps "Length of Moon"
As the devil's flowers do not give birth to seeds - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 1: Temptation"
Stars of flowers brightening the moss - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
Thorny bud and poisonous flower - Emily Bronte "The Elder's Rebuke"
Of glory's wreath and pleasure's flower - Emily Bronte "Plead for Me"
All the flowers are praying - Emily Bronte "The Two Children"
Stands at the portals of a world in flower - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"
If they bear the flowers of life or death - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
Poured forth strange flower - William Cullen Bryant "The Burial-Place"
A flower born of rebel paths - Sue Budin "Mercury in Retrograde"
Wrote their epitaph in pale wood flowers - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Jubilant flowers and nectar-breathing fruits - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Flowers of the dogwood blow over the pale anemones - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Lifting its sculptured flowers to the beams - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
For hours, the flowers were enough - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
Flowers that yield their breath - Tommaso Campanella "LV. To Annibale Caraccioli, a Writer of Eclogues" transl. by John Addington Symonds
As a serpent coils into a flower - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Knee deep in fairy flowers - Ethna Carbery "In Tir-na'n-Og"
Bud to flower in the time of spring - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall
Flowers around our banquet flung - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
From rebel soil a noble flower - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall
The nuptials of flowers and the marriage of streams - Giosue Carducci "To Aurora" transl. by Frank Sewall
My rescuing flower's name - Cyrus Cassells "The White Iris Beautifies Me"
The madness of the spendthrift flower - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"
Mind the flowers of pleasure - Willa Cather "Poppies on Ludlow Castle"
Drifts of wild-thorn flowers - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
In each withered autumn flower - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"
Those flowers were already memory - Chen Chen "First Light"
Wrought with scarlet flowers - Wilfred Childe "Age Gothique Dore"
Presiding over vespertine flowers and dusky courts - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"
With Love in the flower of dawn - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Flowers that skirt the eternal frost - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
The flower I lost yesterday - Hilda Conkling "Humming-Bird"
And flowers in the dark - Hilda Conkling "Spring Song"
The authority of Flowers - CAConrad "Leave Something Quiet in Shell of My Ear"
The flower you must never name - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"
Stoop to shade the scented cups of flowers - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
The troth of flowers and stars - Benjamin Copeland "Beauty"
Something has flowered within the discontent - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Praying hands in tree and flower - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"
The souls of all the flowers - Nathalia Crane "The History of Honey"
And planted the seeds of her flowers - Adelaide Crapsey "Cry of the Nymph to Eros"
A cap of flowery hawthorn - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Delicate flowers of sin - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For Daughters of Magdalen"
Flaunt a red flower in the face of time - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
The jostling and shouting of merry flowers - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
Steeped in burning flowers - ee cummings "Crepuscule"
With April feet like sudden flowers - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
A flower of so pure surprise - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
Make early flowers of all things - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"
Stoops to gather the golden flower of day - Olive Custance "The Storm"
A crown of honey-flowers drip to ivory - H.D. "Holy Satyr"
And a crown of honey-flowers - H.D. "Holy Satyr"
To name and watch each flower - H.D. "Nossis"
Tear the full flowers - H.D. "Orion Dead"
No flower ever parted silver - H.D. "Pear Tree"
Soft kisses like bright flowers - H.D. "Telesila"
Whose happy heart has power to make a stone a flower - W.H. Davies "The Example"
Knows not flowers from stones - William H. Davies "The Hawk"
No sound flowers above please - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Fringed with moss and flowers - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu "Grotte d'ou sort ce clair ruisseau" translated by Felicia Hemans (Author attribution in source only gives 'Chaulieu' as the poet's name. Based on the translator's dates, this poet seems most likely as the author.)
A fragile flower in the wind - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz [Untitled] transl. by Samuel Beckett
Flowered frost congeals - Walter de la Mare "Alone"
Her flowers of glamourie spilled - Walter de la Mare "Beware!"
Her flowers in vision flame - Walter de la Mare "Music"
And the flower of the gorse burned on - Walter de la Mare "Sotto Voce"
Whose marble flowers bloom - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"
I shall miss him when the flowers come - "The Dead Brother"
Every flower smells the song of memory - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Sprouted two intricate flowers in our minds - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Might bear you a gorgeous flower - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
The blue-flowers crown of ecstasy - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets I"
Each flower lifts a golden chalice - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 1: June"
Like a bed for fairy flowers - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"
If the flowers had wings - Mary Mapes Dodge "Oh, No!"
A flower absent from all bouquets - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
A waste garden, flowering at its will - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Curious flowers, before unknown - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Flowers that were stained with moonlight - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
A bride's face of flowers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
That red flower of memory - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VIII: On the Pier of Boulogne"
The faultless flower of light - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
And fire shall be my flower - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"
Whispers through mist his flowered prayer - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"
Candelabra lit with flowers - Helen Parry Eden "The Ascent"
And set the flints with flowers - Helen Parry Eden "Lines Written for D.E."
Of all joys the flower and crown - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."
The crown and flower of the world - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"
Speaking by the tongues of flowers - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
And even the sleeping flowers - George Allan England "One Summer Night"
With flowers and bullets in my heart - Martin Espada "Flowers and Bullets"
The fairest flower of mortal frame- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
Held close by flowers too beauteous for the day - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
The voices of these hurt women flowering - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
Flowering like marigolds or thistles - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
The heart of a flower on fire - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"
The flowers are made of glass - Megan Fernandes "Quentin Compson at the Natural History Museum, Harvard University"
And pink bindweed dimly, steadily flower - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"
Inhabiting flaxen flowers of space - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 9"
Her omniscient inflexible flowers - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 12"
Slipped from a flowering sun - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten III"
In a stream clear with flowering stones - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen D"
Faithful as dew to the drooping flowers - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Trodden underfoot like wayside flowers - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
And not a question for the faded flowers - Robert Frost "Flower-Gathering"
The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee - Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song"
We always locked the flowers outside - Robert Frost "Locked Out"
Her early leaf's a flower - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
With the breath of many flowers - Robert Frost "Rose Pogonias"
Give the buried flower a dream - Robert Frost "To the Thawing Wind"
Some resting flower of yesterday's delight - Robert Frost "The Tuft of Flowers"
To spill themselves like flowers - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
When the last star flowers - Zona Gale "A Meeting"
Lie upon her grave like flowers - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
Let your eyes flower from the dusk and flame - Zona Gale "Return"
Shall be true of every flower - Zona Gale "Roses"
The silence flowers in song - Zona Gale "To a Poet"
Fall from any mortal flower - Zona Gale "Troth"
All flower-still she moved - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"
That shone thickening on flowers - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"
Soft flowers wreathing a hero's sword - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"
By sunshine, by rosewater, by the cactus flowers - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"
Fixing the flowers on a stranger's grave - Andrea Gibson "Radio"
Which dwells not in fruit or in flower - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Has made of the stars its flowers - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
A decision about the dead flowers - Louise Gluck "March"
Flowers of flaming snow - Louis Golding "Wounded Soldiers"
Where many a garden flower grows wild - Oliver Goldsmith "The Village Preacher"
A flower that blossoms without light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
The herbs grew flowering over the land - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"
Every flower faces away - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"
The richest flowers of heaven bloom on the brink of darkness - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Some flower of courage - Ivor Gurney "Fire in the Dusk"
Crushed flowers and forlorn - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"
Is binding on the nearest flower - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
And joy must surely flower - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"
Masses of memoried flowers - Ivor Gurney "To His Love"
Tell deep secrets to the Flower - Hafiz "The Divan XL" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Mistaking it for a flower - Radclyffe Hall "On the Hill-Side"
Our clock should be the closing flowers - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"
When reddest flowers are black - Thomas Hardy "The Garden Seat"
Flowers that have cupped the sun - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
The dime store flower fields - francine j. harris "i used to write"
Such delicate flowers falling silent - Leslie Harrison "[December]"
As flowers wane in summer's heat - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XIV"
Red and blue flowers in the wheat - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIV"
The passing breath of flowers bright - F.W. Harvey "The Wind's Grief"
And yet the flowers don't quit opening - Terrance Hayes "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy"
Of earth dreaming its root in flowers and snow - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"
The kite a thin-stemmed flower - Seamus Heaney "A Kite for Aibhin"
The flowering myrtle blows through tall arcades - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
To raise from earth a blighted flower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
That nursed each infant flower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
With flowers of Eden twines - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Venom in the scented flower - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
With her warm flower heart - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A City Guest"
A moon drowned flower - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Evermore"
Where no flower can wither - George Herbert "The Flower"
Each flower has wept - Robert Herrick "Corinna's Going a-Maying"
The flowers, orchids, all made of silk - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
The myth of flower girls selling futures - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"
Two petals more on every flower - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Those flowers made of light - Thomas Hood "I Remember"
Mark the flowers how they wither - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Flowers that spring from the same root below - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
No dream of frost to the flowers - William Dean Howells "The First Cricket"
Autumn flower in the frozen rain - Langston Hughes "Troubled Woman"
And bitterly hang on the flowerless air - Richard Hughes "The Image"
As flowers upon the sky - Aldous Huxley "Italy"
None but the flowers have seen - Aldous Huxley "Two Songs 1 [Thick-flowered is the trellis]"
The house strewn with flowers - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Flowers I smelled in October - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"
And rained down flowers of speech - "IV: Mexica Otoncuicatl | An Otomi Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
The burning incense of flowers - "IV: Mexica Otoncuicatl | An Otomi Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
The jewels of saddest flowers - "IX: Otro Tlaocolcuica Otomitl | An Otomi Song of Sadness" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Mimic flowers from out my silk and velvet garden - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Scarlet flowers breathing in the darkness - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"
Gift my rings as circlets of celestial flowers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Flower and fruit overflow - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Old vows are like old flowers - Helene Johnson "Remember Not"
Before the time of flowers - Lionel Johnson "Ash Wednesday"
Beside the misty flowers of purple lavender - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Tremulous beliefs, agonized hopes, and ashen flowers - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"
The circuits of the flowers - Sara Eliza Johnson "Vapor"
Flowers to bring worms and wasps - Ashley M. Jones "Photosynthesis"
Walks among the flowers to my doorway - June Jordan "It's Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean"
My flesh clay and flowers and thorns - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
Distant from bees and flowers - Fady Joudah "Unacknowledged Pollinators"
Pale flowers on his mantle, dark leaves on his hair - James Joyce "Strings in the Earth and Air"
Flower that boasts no fragrance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Third: The Death of Love" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Flowers lured from their buds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Enthroned upon the lotus flower - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
A scrawl diagrammed, flower and all - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"
Like flowers ache for spring - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
The flower will bloom another year - John Keats "Faery Song"
Flowering laurels spring from diamond vases - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Cool-rooted flowers fragrant-eyed - John Keats "Psyche"
The sweetest flower wild nature yields - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"
Later flowers for the bees - John Keats "To Autumn"
New bees explore new flowers - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Woos you with hands full of flowers - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"
A fragrant land with flowers wrought - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
Who culled a garland from the flowers - Henry Kendall "Adam Lindsay Gordon"
A trophy pinned with dead flowers and scorn - Vandana Khanna "Novice"
Then treats you like the second flower he sees - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
Young July with all her flowers - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"
The honey from forests of flowers - Joyce Kilmer "Prayer to Bragi"
Who wed a flower wife - Joyce Kilmer "Said the Rose"
Never shy of flowers - Kim Unsong "Blessed"
The richest flowers blowing - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"
Erupt into flower - Galway Kinnell "Cemetery Angels"
Through the green fuse drives the flower - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"
Had been nothing but flowers - Ted Kooser "The China Painters"
Broken with curled flower buds - Archibald Lampman "April"
The ghosts of the dead flowers - Archibald Lampman "Ballade of Summer's Sleep"
Two flowers that love the light - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
Where scant flowers bloom - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IX: To that Rare and Deep-Red Burnet-Moth Only to Be Met with in the Burren"
Run down the labyrinth of the sinister flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"
Clear like flowers undone - D.H. Lawrence "Green"
In the flicker of a flower - D.H. Lawrence "Pentecostal"
Old maps made of flowers - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"
Crushed her gathered flowers - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory fo the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
To lift this frail, inconsequent flower - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
Sprinkles life with loveliest flowers - Henry S. Leigh "The Ballad of the Barytone"
Sends the gentle breeze to woo the flower - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]
The grain of hopes that yet shall flower - Amy Levy "A March Day in London"
The boundless jealousy of the flower - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Laughing across the lotus-flowers - Li Po "On the Banks of Jo-yeh" transl. by Arthur Waley
Lotus flowers made skirts for her - Li Shang-yin "[At eight stealing a mirror glance]" transl. by Burton Watson
The boundless jealousy of the flower - Li T'ai-Po "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: "Peaceful Brightness"" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
None of your blood will bring a flower - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"
Artificial flowers bloom in the dead bodies of universes - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
The slow plan of the flowering grass - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
What is fortune among fading flowers? - Sandra J. Lindow "The Wolf from the Door"
The delicate flowers of delight - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"
Storm clouds turned to blue-bell flowers - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"
His fairy chain of blooming amaranthine flow'rs - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]
In an ancient melee of night flowers - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"
From the trellis of flowering thorn - Liu K'o-chuang "Leaving the City" transl. by Burton Watson
The flower of our heart - Amy Lowell "Petals"
Lost in the sap of a flower seed - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
Herald of rich Summer's myriad flowers - Amy Lowell "To an Early Daffodil"
Whispered the secrets of earth to the flowers - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Flower with surfaces of ice - Amy Lowell "The Weather-Cock Points South"
Fairest flowers o'er the grave of buried time - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Her poisen [sic] flowers and her hidden chain - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
A great white flower of solitude - Dorothea Mackellar "The Moon and the Morning"
This grief of tortured flowers - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
The flower dies the day it's born - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen
The exotic names of every flower and leaf - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
As perfume clings to wounded flowers - George Martin "Hallowe'en in Canada"
Or foreign flowers by foreign streams - George Martin "Unknown"
A hollowed singularity exists in flowers - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Your voice broke like a flower - Florence Ripley Mastin "From the Telephone"
No music from the flowers - Adrian Matejka "17 Kinds of Hungry"
Flowers on the conquistador's tongue - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
If the flowers are taken into account - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Plucked the sanguine flower of pain - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"
The wreaths brought from the floral shrine - James E. McGirt "Victoria the Queen"
A rope vase of flowers - Medbh McGuckian "Garden Homage"
Of wilting plants and fainting flowers - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"
The purple flowers of fragrant June - Claude McKay "The Plateau"
Like a storm-swept flower - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Paint field and flower in nature's hues - H.P. McKnight "Dedication"
Of happy days and faded flowers - Frank J. Medina "Parting"
Deeper than flower and fruit - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Of the flowers flooding grass - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
The bees chose their flowers - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Brings heaven to the flower - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
The lark above the flowers - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Boutique sticks stones dead flowers - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"
The rooted liberty of flowers - Alice Meynell "The English Metres"
Fruit and flower on the same branch - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
Will touch a hundred flowers - Edna St Vincent Millay "Afternoon on a Hill"
Flowers and song and you - Edna St. Vincent Millay "To Kathleen"
Flowers and you and song - Edna St. Vincent Millay "To Kathleen"
As the unattended flower - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
To commune with the lonely orphan flowers - Robert Montgomery "Melancholy" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Full of flowers and ideas - jessica Care moore "I used to be a roller coaster girl"
Of flowers dead and letters never sent - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
The seeds of life's queen flowers - Irene Elder Morton "My Garden Wall"
Now cast on flowers fresh and green - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
Don a flower crown for the sacrifice - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Sheath of thunderbolts and flowers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner
Flowers to kiss her - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"
Vagrant flowers of legal pestilences - Pablo Neruda "The Beggars" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Like a flower of eternal water - Pablo Neruda "Bombardment/Curse" translated by Richard Schaaf
A flower with thousands of nameless petals - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Solitude bears no flowers - Pablo Neruda "The Invisible Man" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Your cargo of iron flowers - Pablo Neruda "Midday XL" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
A languid crown of the sea's flowers - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Here desolate flowers were born - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The light of hidden flowers - Pablo Neruda "Sonnet XXV"
Punctuated by red flowers like burns - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
Evidence unfolding like a flower - Pablo Neruda "With Quevedo, In Springtime" transl. by William O'Daly
A flower your winter gardens hold - E. Nesbit "Death"
The keen wind robs the flowers - E. Nesbit "March Violets"
Flower running to poisonous seed - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
A frenzy of magenta flowers - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"
We tired of flowers - Meredith Nicholson "'Heartache'"
Through lessons of the spring-time flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Prince's Treasure"
Tell it to the wondering flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Secret"
A bud before the flower - Meredith Nicholson "Sweetheart Time"
Make flower and fruit in me - Meredith Nicholson "To the Seasons"
Flesh unto flowers, and flame unto wind - Edward J. O'Brien "Song"
The flowers of Eden sprung - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Twine a chaplet of deathless flowers - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"
Like a million flowers on fire - Mary Oliver "The Buddha’s Last Instruction"
Through the raging flowers of the snow - Mary Oliver "Evening Star"
Little flowers made from red tape - Matthew Olzmann "Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz"
Whatever flowered had to fade - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"
The stone whose flower opens inward - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"
Could revere the simplest flower - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Hymn Written for a Sunday School"
That flowered at Sappho's tread - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"
And the choirs of flowers - Linda Pastan "Life and Death on Masterpiece"
Flowers with knife-sharp petals - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"
As if pearls to flowers were grown - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Like the breath of morning to half-withered flowers - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Disclosure's a pretty flower - Carl Phillips "The Distance and the Spoils"
Toward the flower's throat - Carl Phillips "If You Go Away"
For me to love among the flowers - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "[Will you go with me]"
The wind in the mallow flowers - Po Chu'i "Pouring Out My Feelings after Parting from Yuan Chen" transl. by Burton Watson
Flower on memory's lonely stream - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
Soft dew-drop of my heart's one flower - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Crowned with stars for flowers - John Presland "The Deluge"
Form trenches for the frailer flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "In the Hardt Wald"
Striving seeds and budding flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Thoughts at Ajaccio"
Robbed the flowers of their melodies - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Windy June"
Prate not of failing hopes, of fading flowers - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Thy flower is writ of grief - Theodore H. Rand "Beauty"
Pillars of bone flower - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
The billow which would woo the flowery coast - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Fruit and flowers I sent in my stead - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Another flower for the altar - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Flower by dream-ghosts planted - Edgell Rickword "Grave Joys"
A spirit-planted, fadeless flower - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"
Blue-forked flowers of lightning - Lola Ridge "After Storm"
Audacious as hibiscus flowers - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Stately as a flower of cactus - Lola Ridge "Shadow"
I know you flower darkly - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"
Flowers to cut the heart - Rihaku "Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin" (translated by Ezra Pound and others, attribution unclear)
No more than they own flowers - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
That fashion a silence of flowers - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)
Your waitings on the marriages of flowers - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
Soul of the lily flower - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Spiritual Love"
Dead flowers on the wind - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"
What flowers find heart to die - Rennell Rodd "If Any One Return"
Autumn's wind uncloses the heart of all your flowers - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"
Nor yet the flower of perfect days - Alice Wellington Rollins "The New Day"
Wave living flower and living leaf - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Beauty deck the Spring in flowers - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
The sweetest flow'r that gems the wild - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Enamelled bright with flowers of every sort - anonymous? "The Royal Court"
Wishes, wolves, and flower kings - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
Ablaze with myriad flowers - Edna K. Saloomey "My Lebanon"
Without a hint of flower or fruit - William Saphier "Etchings Not to Be Read Aloud: The Old Prize Fighter"
With the fairies in chalice of flowers - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
A nanosecond flowers into eternity - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
From the bud she lures the flower - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Flowers blooming buried sunlight - Fritz Schnack "Blooming Sunlight" transl. by William Saphier
Offering me their flowers and then their leaves - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"
Fields of needles arranged into flowers - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
As they disappear through the tunnel of flowers - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"
Hardly now we see the flowers - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"
For the thirsting flowers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Cloud"
Strewed flowers upon the barren way - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Overgrown with azure moss and flowers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Corrupt a landscape through the planting of foreign flowers - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Who confide in trumpet flowers - Maurya Simon "Angels"
Petals blown from flower-hued stars - Edith Sitwell "Fireworks"
The grey flowers and the fallen grass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"
A throne of flowering ebony - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Poison dagger, dragon flower - Richard Solomon "Galatea of the Spheres"
Renew both fruit and flower - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"
Scatters flowers from an ample garden - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
The azure blaze of scentless flowers - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
A flower of elfin gold - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
When that flower of fear had broken - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
To pluck that flower of doom - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
Crown the skull with flower or thorn - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
A sudden flower blooms in my heart - George Sterling "You Are So Beautiful"
My flowers are reflected in your mind - Wallace Stevens "The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches"
Steal the odors of the sleeping flowers - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
A dread and pitiless flowering - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Give me no coil of daemon flowers - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"
Frost upon the eyes of flowers - Muriel Stuart "Leda"
Go hence with flowers and weeds - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"
Blown buds of barren flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"
Fervent flower made fruitful from the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Fruitless husk and fugitive flower - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Cold and clean as her faint salt flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
So thick with thornless flowers - P.D.T. "Lost Treasures"
A counterfeiter of ways flowering like snow - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
With the flowers and fruits of the Six Seasons - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"
Dew and frost flowering and withering - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
Whose inlaid marbles mock the flowers - Bayard Taylor "The Odalisque" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Deadheading flowers after their first blooming - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"
Than a flower could hold - Sara Teasdale "August Moonrise"
The blue flame of the flower - Sara Teasdale "Blue Squills"
The fragile secret of a flower - Sara Teasdale "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
As a flower is forgotten - Sara Teasdale "Let It Be Forgotten"
As the rain can do without the flowers - Edward Thomas "What Will They Do?"
Not stir a flower without troubling of a star - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
In phantom flame of flag and flower - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
Wear a wreath of fading flowers - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"
The courtesy of who wears a flower - Luis Lloréns Torres "Bolivar" transl. by Muna Lee
A volume of pressed flowers - Iris Tree "[My devotion kneels to you]"
Each flower a surrender - Natasha Trethewey "South"
As bees drink the sweets from a cluster of flowers - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
With crowns of kelp and frantic purple flowers - Genya Turovskaya "Wisterical"
An azure flower secretly blooms - Perhat Tursun "The Tarim River" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
With the voice of a flower - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"
Beauty folded in the flowers and leaves - Jehangir Jivaji Vakil "Revelation"
The flower of the heart's ideal - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
From galaxy to flower divine - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "What Is Now"
Across the fair and flowery uplands - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets III: Moving Bells"
Meadows whereon grow the flowers of flame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Flowers in the place of riches - "VII: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Hold secret a bird's flowering - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"
Coax flowers into stories - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Ram, Laborer"
The odor of flowers that reaches a scream - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Bindeth the flower - Charles William Wallace "Chorus"
For the rarest flower seeks - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
The smile of wave and flower - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
Sickle made of blooming flowers - Charles William Wallace "The Sickle of Flowers"
Would feed on brighter flowers - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
Where gentian flowers make mimic sky - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
Last year among the flowers - Wei Ying-wu "To Send to Li Tan and Yuan Hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Dream flowers drawn by moving veils - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"
The seeds that wake to flowers - Kate Louise Wheeler "Hidden Treasures"
The swaying stem of some exalted flower - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Faintest breath of flowers stirred - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Flower of the eternities - John Hall Wheelock "Vaudeville"
Contented with my flowers for stars - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"
Flowers from off the lap of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Chaque baiser vaut un roman"
In hues of tulip twilight flowers - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"
Pale as the ghost of a flower - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"
Perversities of flower and fruit - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
The vascular system of flowering things - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"
Over hills where famine flowers - John Wieners "For Huncke"
With the gold of the flower of March - Oscar Wilde "Magdalen Walks"
Half the names of the flowers - C. K. Williams "Doves"
That there were flowers also in hell - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
Weakest flower shall be our trust - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
Lift your flowers on bitter stems - William Carlos Williams "Chickory and Daisies"
Ice cream in the shape of flowers - William Carlos Williams "The Delicacies"
One thing braver than all flowers - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"
Forty flowers on twenty stems - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"
A flower or two picked from mud - William Carlos Williams "March"
Seeking the flowers of March - William Carlos Williams "March"
Wall flowers that once were flame - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"
Pink confused with white flowers - William Carlos Williams "The Pot of Flowers"
The souring flowers of the bedraggled poplars - William Carlos Williams "Smell!"
Flower that splits the rocks - William Carlos Williams "A Sort of a Song"
The purple flowers of Dis burn their young foreheads - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"
Because the flowers of life are bitter - Adolf Wolff "Confidences"
Ill befall the yellow flowers - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"
Withered is the guardian flower - William Wordsworth "A Wren's Nest"
Too sure of its perfect flower - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
A clever dance of flowers - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
Into the place of decayed flowers - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A rain of various flowers falls - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A carrion flower never in bloom - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"
Over a flower's invitation - Jane Yolen "Time Piece"
Names of flowers and warblers and stars - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
The splendid flower of their delight - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Drinking honey of the night's flowers - Francis Brett Young "Moths"
Wind and rain await the opening flower - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson
Crown us like flowers - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Curious flowers that never fall - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Which is the last savage flower - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
They bloom blood-flowers in the tearful dew - "Adonium" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
Always a sparrow flitting in the flowerbeds - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia
Brandishing flowerbuds of desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
And ascends flower-crowned to her vernal throne - Mrs. E.C. Stedman "Flight of the Birds" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Face the flower-formed mirror - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Evening comes with an onslaught]" transl. by Burton Watson
Burned with tears and flower-melt - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Wormseed oil and nightshade flower-shine - Regan Good "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"
From time's full-flowering bough - Algernon Swinburne "Change"
And all my heart-flowers withered - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"
Until the Hell-flower dies down - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"
Let us revel amid the shield-flowers - "XVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Waited in the light of our thousand-flower sun - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
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