Flowers in Poetry

Flowers have inspired many poets and contributed to their work. Here is a collection of a few of these poems.

My Pretty Rose Tree
William Blake (1757 - 1827)

Dead Rose
     By Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861)

My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
     By Robert Burns (1759 – 1796)

Beauty Clear and Fair
     By John Fletcher (1579–1625)

The Last Chrysanthemum
By Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

The Triumph
     By Ben Jonson (1573–1637)

Fancy
     By John Keats (1795–1821)

Chrysanthemum
     By Hattie L. Knapp

Three Flower Petals
     By Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)

A Tulip Garden
     By Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)

Chrysanthemum
     By Albert Bigelow Paine

The Path that leads to Nowhere
     By Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861- 1933)

I Watched a Rosebud
     By Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

Consider The Lilies Of The Field
     By Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

The Crocus
     By Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
     By Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892)

Maud
     By Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892)

The Choice
     By George Wither (1588–1667)

The Marigold
     By George Wither (1588 - 1667)

Daffodils
     By William Wordsworth (1770-1850)