Monthly Archives: April 2009
yellow daffodil
O fateful flower beside the rill – The daffodil, the daffodil! -Persephone by Jean Ingelow (1862)
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Virginia blue bells
Mertensia virginica The blue bell is the sweetest flower That waves in summer air; Its blossoms have the mightiest power To soothe my spirit’s care. -The Blue Bell by Emily Jane Brontë (1850)
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white daffodils
in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how – e.e. cummings
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hyacinth
I am in love with him To whom a hyacinth is dearer Than I shall ever be dear. On nights when the field-mice Are abroad, he cannot sleep. He hears their narrow teeth At the bulbs of his hyacinths. But … Continue reading
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bed of tulips
The tulip’s petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike. – James Montgomery
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orange tulip bud
Clean as a lady cool as glass fresh without fragance the tulip was. – Humbert Wolfe (1924)
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deep purple tulip
…to be a tulip and desire no more but water, but light, but air… – John Berryman (1968)
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center of a yellow and red tulip
…The tulips should be behind bars like dangerous animals; They are opening like the mouth of some great African cat… – Tulips by Sylvia Plath (1961)
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Rushlyn
