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Flowers are quite a prolific subject for poets. One poet,
Margaret Deland,
has nearly an entire volume of poems about flowers.
You may also enjoy the poems about
Gardens.
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. - Carl Sandburg
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Meadowsweet
by William Allingham
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The Yellow Violet
by William Cullen Bryant
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A Pitcher of Mignonette
by Henry Cuyler Bunner
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Wistaria
by Witter Bynner
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Field Flowers
by Thomas Campbell
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The Myrtle
by Margaret Deland
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Bossy and the Daisy
by Margaret Deland
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Butter and Eggs
by Margaret Deland
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The Pansy
by Margaret Deland
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Sea Poppies
by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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Sea Roses
by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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The Rhodora
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Water-Lilies
by Edgar Fawcett
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The Wild Honey Suckle
by Philip Freneau
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Geraniums
by Wilfred Gibson
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The Violet
by Sir Edmund William Gosse
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To Daffodills
by Robert Herrick
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A Rose and a Nettle
by John Heywood
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Ghost-Flowers
by Mary Thacher Higginson
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The Lent Lily
by A. E. Housman
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Poppies on the Wheat
by Helen Hunt Jackson
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With a Spray of Apple Blossoms
by Walter Learned
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Dandelion
by Vachel Lindsay
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The Reaper and the Flowers
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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To the Milkweed
by Lloyd Mifflin
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Eutopia
by Francis Turner Palgrave
what do the lilies say to the roses? only the children know
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Flora's Party
by Lydia H. Sigourney
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Arbutus
by Bertrand A. Smalley
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Blue Squills
by Sara Teasdale
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Water Lilies
by Sara Teasdale
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Wild Asters
by Sara Teasdale
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Flower in the Crannied Wall
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
on understanding nature, man and God
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Heather
by Flora Thompson
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When Tulips Bloom
by Henry Van Dyke
despite the title, a poem about fishing
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Queen Anne's Lace
by William Carlos Williams
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Blueflags
by William Carlos Williams
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The Tulip Bed
by William Carlos Williams
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wordsworth
a vivid image brings pleasure with each remembering; one of Jon's favorites
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