Flower Poems

Author : National Trust
Publisher : National Trust
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1909881740

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Favourite Flower Poems by National Trust Pdf

A rich collection of poetry that celebrates the beauty and symbolism of flowers. Beautifully illustrated with nostalgic illustrations of a range of beautiful blooms, this book includes a diverse range of poems. From verses celebrating the beginning of spring with the emergence of the snowdrops, daffodils, and bluebells to poems that honour the summer colour of asters, the heady scent of jasmine, and the brazen sunflower. The classic poets are featured including Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Seamus Heaney. There's also range of rich poetry from less-famous names which have stood the test of time and evoke nature’s beauty.

Author : Hayan Charara
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781639550555

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These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit by Hayan Charara Pdf

A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good—a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father. With These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit, Hayan Charara presents readers with a medley of ambitious analyses, written in characteristically wry verse. He takes philosophers to task, jousts with academics, and scrutinizes hollow gestures of empathy, exposing the dangers of thinking ourselves “separate / from [our] thoughts and experiences.” After all, “No work of love / will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart.” But how do we act on fullness of heart? How, knowing as we do that “genocide is inscribed in our earliest and holiest texts”? Thoughtful but never preachy, Charara sits beside us, granting us access to life’s countless unglamorous dilemmas: crushing a spider when we promised we wouldn’t, nearing madness from a newborn’s weeping, resenting our lovers for what happened in a dream. “Good poems demand to be written from inside the poet,” we are reminded. And that is where we find ourselves here: inside a lively and ethical mind, entertained by Charara’s good company even as goodness challenges us to do more.

Author : Charles Elliott
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780711256507

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The RHS Book of Flower Poetry and Prose by Charles Elliott Pdf

Artists and writers have always been drawn to flowers, as sources of inspiration, for simple enjoyment, and flowers themselves have been the muses for many of our greatest and most memorable works of art. This volume brings together the best flower poetry and prose from a broad range of writers, from Shakespeare and Milton, to Reginald Farrer and Edward Augustus Bowles, to twentieth-century poets such as Marianne Moore and Theodore Roethke. Wild and garden flowers are here explored in all their moods and mysteries. The poems and extracts are illustrated with botanical art from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Library, acknowledged as the world’s finest horticultural library. Addison • Betjeman • Bowles • Bradley and Cooper • Burns • Burroughs • Capek • Carroll • Clare • Colette • Crabbe • Ellacombe • Farrer • Fish • Gerard • Gilbert • Hanmer • Hardy • Hopkins • Housman • Hudson • Hunt • Jekyll • Johnson • Lawrence • Longfellow • Marvell • Milton • Mitchell • Moore • Parkinson • Pitter • Plunkett • Ridler • Roethke • Rohde • Rossetti • Sackville West • Seward • Shakespeare • Silkin • Sitwell • Stevenson • Swinburne • Thomas • Williams • Williamson • Wither • Wordsworth

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781528789400

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The Book of Flowers by William Wordsworth Pdf

A delightful pocket-sized collection of William Wordsworth’s poetry on flowers. This volume brings Wordsworth’s vivid nature imagery to life, featuring much-loved poems such as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ or ‘Daffodils’. This beautiful collection of Wordsworth’s poetry is drawn together by a common theme of flowers and plant life. The poems give inspiring descriptions of nature and are intertwined with the poet’s thoughts and experiences of life, including his friendships, relationships and religious beliefs. Included in this volume are poems such as: - ‘To the Daisy’ - ‘To the Small Celadine’ - ‘To the Waterfall and the Eglantine’ - ‘The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral’ - ‘Not Love, Not War, Nor the Tumultuous Swell’ - ‘Though the Bold Wings of Poesy Affect’ From the specialist poetry imprint, Ragged Hand, Read & Co. has proudly republished Wordsworth’s Poetry on Flowers in this beautiful small edition, perfect for on-the-go reading. Complete with an introductory excerpt from Thomas Carlyle’s 1881 Reminiscences, this volume is not to be missed by nature lovers or collectors of Wordsworth’s work.

Author : William Stanley Merwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015041026819

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Flower & Hand by William Stanley Merwin Pdf

Collects all of Merwin's poetry from The Compass Flower, Feathers from the Hill, and Opening the Hand.

Author : Jane Holloway
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101907955

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The Language of Flowers by Jane Holloway Pdf

A uniquely international anthology--in a beautiful pocket-sized hardcover--that explores the richly symbolic expressiveness of flowers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Floral symbols adorn the earliest poetry, and over the centuries they became increasingly entwined with myth and legend, with religious symbolism, and with herbal folklore. By the early nineteenth century the "Language of Flora" was an elaborately refined system, especially in England and America, where books listing flower meanings and illustrating them with verse were perennial bestsellers. Transcending the charm of its Victorian predecessors, this anthology creates an extended, updated, and more robust floral anthology for the twenty-first century, presenting poets through the ages from Sappho, Shakespeare, and Shelley to Ted Hughes, Mary Oliver, and Louise Glück, and across the world from Cuba to Korea, Russia to Zimbabwe. Eastern cultures, rich in flower associations, are well represented: Tang poems celebrating chrysanthemums and peonies, Zen poems about orchids and lotus flowers, poems about jasmine and marigolds from India, and roses and narcissi from Persia, the Ottoman empire, and the Arabic world. The most timeless human emotions and concepts--love, hope, despair, fidelity, grief, beauty, and mortality--find colorful expression in The Language of Flowers.

Author : Alexander Laing (Poet.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Scottish poetry
ISBN : NLS:V000606936

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Wayside Flowers: Being Poems and Songs. [With a Plate.] by Alexander Laing (Poet.) Pdf

Author : Patricia Whittaker
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-03-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0810937182

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Poetry of Flowers by Patricia Whittaker Pdf

Seven pop-up boquetes staring seven different flowers accompanied by poetry

Author : Meir Wieseltier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 052093668X

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The Flower of Anarchy by Meir Wieseltier Pdf

Meir Wieseltier's verbal power, historical awareness, and passionate engagement have placed him in the first rank of contemporary Hebrew poetry. The Flower of Anarchy, a selection of Wieseltier's poems spanning almost forty years, collects in one volume, for the first time, English translations of some of his finest work. Superbly translated by the award-winning American-Israeli poet-translator Shirley Kaufman—who has worked with the poet on these translations for close to thirty years—this book brings together some of the most praised and admired early poems published in several small books during the 1960s, along with poems from six subsequent collections, including Wieseltier's most recent, Slow Poems, published in 2000. Born in Moscow in 1941, Wieseltier spent the first years of his life, during the war, as a refugee in Siberia, then again in Europe. He settled in Tel-Aviv a few years after coming to Israel in 1949 and has lived there ever since. A master of both comedy and irony, Wieseltier has written powerful poems of social and political protest in Israel, poems that are painfully timeless. His voice is alternately anarchic and involved, angry and caring, trenchant and lyric.

Author : Barbara Cooney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985-11-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101654927

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Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney Pdf

A beloved classic—written by a beloved Caldecott winner—is lovelier than ever! Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went. Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award in the year of publication. To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of two-time Caldecott winner Barbara Cooney's best-loved book, the illustrations have been reoriginated, going back to the original art to ensure state-of-the-art reproduction of Cooney's exquisite artwork. The art for Miss Rumphius has a permanent home in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Author : William Carlos Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811212831

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Asphodel, that Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems by William Carlos Williams Pdf

A dozen poems on love by a New Jersey obstetrician (1883-1963) who often wrote them on office prescription pads. In the title poem, first published when he was 72, he wrote: "What power has love but forgiveness? / In other words / by its intervention / what has been done / can be undone."

Author : Rita B. Rose
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781984582072

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Flower Poems by Rita B. Rose Pdf

Flower Poems: Personalities in Bloom Have you ever wondered what flowers would say if they were able to verbalize their sentiments? My flower poems explore that notion. Many are pantoums poems and some are free verse. To make it more interesting and rooted in fun, I have assigned human temperament to individual flowers; some flowers appear humble and sweet, many are party buds that stay up all night and some are very moody. The unkindest of all blooms are downright mean! Please enjoy my selections and when you happen on a flowery friend please take the time to get to know them.

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807069035

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Thirst by Mary Oliver Pdf

Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.

Author : Pamela Uschuk
Publisher : Wings Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781609404116

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Blood Flower by Pamela Uschuk Pdf

In Blood Flower, passionate imagery married to music bursts from each line pushing out the boundaries of Uschuk's earlier poems. It continues themes in Uschuk's American Book Award winner, Crazy Love. The poems braid the startling, sometimes brutal stories of her Russian/Czech immigrant family during the McCarthy Era in a conservative Michigan farming community with stories of veterans with stories of courageous individuals, especially women, who persevere to love, despite it all. Uschuk's step-grandfather, father, brother, nephews and first husband suffered severe PTSD as combat veterans who returned home from wars that ravished not only their lives but the lives of the women and children closest to them. This is the history not just of one family but the history of immigrants in this nation. These poems, although set in landscapes across the globe, commonly draw their imagery and healing from the natural world, the wild world, and the integrity of the human heart.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780711263369

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The RHS Book of Garden Verse by Anonim Pdf

From the RHS comes this compendium of poetry about gardens and garden plants, themes that have provided inspiration for poets since the dawn of time. The poems span many centuries and include the work of such great writers as Wordsworth, Spenser and Shakespeare.