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Flowers lend beauty to the page

by Jacqueline

December 29, 2008


Now that the holiday rush is over, you may have more time to appreciate little pleasures, like poetry and petals.

Emily Dickinson (1830–86) was a poet particularly taken with nature, as evidenced by her many tributes to flowers.



PERHAPS you’d like to buy a flower?
But I could never sell.
If you would like to borrow
Until the daffodil

Unties her yellow bonnet
Beneath the village door,
Until the bees, from clover rows
Their hock and sherry draw,

Why, I will lend until just then,
But not an hour more!

What are your favorite flower poems? Share them on Flower Blog.

Flower Fact of the Day: In Wales, there's a legend that whoever spots the first daffodil of the season will have a year of riches.
 



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Darcy
Darcy | Reply
January 10, 2009

Emily Dickinson is the greatest! I love how she would often bring a flower or flowers to people with a handwritten note or poem.  Below is another flower poem  she wrote that I like.
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Through the Dark Sod — as Education —
The Lily passes sure —
Feels her white foot — no trepidation —
Her faith — no fear —

Afterward — in the Meadow —
Swinging her Beryl Bell —
The Mold-life — all forgotten — now —
In Ecstasy — and Dell —


Darcy
Darcy | Reply
January 10, 2009

Emily Dickinson is the greatest! I love how she would often bring a flower or flowers to people with a handwritten note or poem.  Below is another flower poem she wrote that I like.
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Through the Dark Sod — as Education —
The Lily passes sure —
Feels her white foot — no trepidation —
Her faith — no fear —

Afterward — in the Meadow —
Swinging her Beryl Bell —
The Mold-life — all forgotten — now —
In Ecstasy — and Dell —

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