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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

1. Meadowsweet by William Allingham
2. The Yellow Violet by William Cullen Bryant
3. A Pitcher of Mignonette by Henry Cuyler Bunner
4. Wistaria by Witter Bynner
5. Field Flowers by Thomas Campbell
6. The Myrtle by Margaret Deland
7. Bossy and the Daisy by Margaret Deland
8. Butter and Eggs by Margaret Deland
9. The Pansy by Margaret Deland
10. Sea Poppies by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
11. Sea Roses by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
12. The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. Water-Lilies by Edgar Fawcett
14. The Wild Honey Suckle by Philip Freneau
15. Geraniums by Wilfred Gibson
16. The Violet by Sir Edmund William Gosse
17. To Daffodills by Robert Herrick
18. A Rose and a Nettle by John Heywood
19. Ghost-Flowers by Mary Thacher Higginson
20. The Lent Lily by A. E. Housman
21. Poppies on the Wheat by Helen Hunt Jackson
22. With a Spray of Apple Blossoms by Walter Learned
23. Dandelion by Vachel Lindsay
24. The Reaper and the Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25. To the Milkweed by Lloyd Mifflin
26. Eutopia by Francis Turner Palgrave

    what do the lilies say to the roses? only the children know

27. Flora's Party by Lydia H. Sigourney
28. Arbutus by Bertrand A. Smalley
29. Blue Squills by Sara Teasdale
30. Water Lilies by Sara Teasdale
31. Wild Asters by Sara Teasdale
32. Flower in the Crannied Wall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    on understanding nature, man and God

33. Heather by Flora Thompson
34. When Tulips Bloom by Henry Van Dyke

    despite the title, a poem about fishing

35. Queen Anne's Lace by William Carlos Williams
36. Blueflags by William Carlos Williams
37. The Tulip Bed by William Carlos Williams
38. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth

    a vivid image brings pleasure with each remembering; one of Jon's favorites