If it Were lighter touch Than petal of flower resting On grass, oh still too heavy it were, Too heavy!

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Poems by This Author

Amaze by Adelaide Crapsey I know November Night by Adelaide Crapsey Listen The Sun-Dial by Adelaide Crapsey Every day To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window by Adelaide Crapsey How can you lie so still? All day I watch Triad by Adelaide Crapsey These be

Further Reading

Poems about Flowers Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] by Charles Wright Still Another Day: I by Pablo Neruda A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns a woman had placed by Anne Blonstein Advice to a Prophet by Richard Wilbur Ah! Sunflower by William Blake Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [excerpt] by William Carlos Williams Astigmatism by Amy Lowell At Baia by H. D. Blur by Andrew Hudgins Botanica by Eve Alexandra Bulb Planting Time by Edgar Guest Come Slowly—Eden (211) by Emily Dickinson Day Lilies by Rosanna Warren Epitaph X by Thomas Heise Erotic Energy by Chase Twichell Far and Away [excerpt] by Fanny Howe Follies by Carl Sandburg Forced Bloom by David Baker Four Poems for Robin by Gary Snyder From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee Girl by Eve Alexandra Herb Garden by Timothy Steele In April by James Hearst Iris by David St. John La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats La Chalupa, the Boat by Jean Valentine Last Supper by Charles Wright Little Lion Face by May Swenson Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply by J. Michael Martinez Nothing But Death by Pablo Neruda Nothing Stays Put by Amy Clampitt Nothing to Save by D. H. Lawrence Ode to a Flower in Casarsa by Pier Paolo Pasolini One Flower by Jack Kerouac Poem by John Gray Practice by Ellen Bryant Voigt Queen-Anne's-Lace by William Carlos Williams Sea Rose by H. D. See How the Roses Burn! by Hafiz Shake the Superflux! by David Lehman Solstice by Ellen Dudley Sonnet 2 by Gwendolyn Bennett Taken Up by Charles Martin The Dandelion by Vachel Lindsay The force that through the green fuse drives the flower by Dylan Thomas The Gardenia by Cornelius Eady The Métier of Blossoming by Denise Levertov The Mountain Cemetery by Edgar Bowers The Orchid Flower by Sam Hamill The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers by Andrew Marvell The Satyr's Heart by Brigit Pegeen Kelly The Violet by Jane Taylor The White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly The Wild Honeysuckle by Philip Freneau To Dorothy by Marvin Bell To Earthward by Robert Frost To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54 by Teresa Carson Why Regret? by Galway Kinnell Wildflower by Stanley Plumly Wildwood Flower by Kathryn Stripling Byer Without a Philosophy by Elizabeth Morgan