A Vision of Poesy – Part 01 (Henry Timrod Poems)
IIn a far country, and a distant age,Ere sprites and fays had bade farewell to earth,A boy was born of ...
Henry Timrod Poems on Flowers (22 Poems)
Two Portraits (Henry Timrod Poems)
You say, as one who shapes a life,That you will never be a wife,And, laughing lightly, ask my aidTo paint ...
The Cotton Boll (Henry Timrod Poems)
While I reclineAt ease beneathThis immemorial pine,Small sphere!(By dusky fingers brought this morning hereAnd shown with boastful smiles),I turn thy ...
Praeceptor Amat (Henry Timrod Poems)
It is time (it was time long ago) I should severThis chain — why I wear it I know not ...
Ethnogenesis (Henry Timrod Poems)
IHath not the morning dawned with added light?And shall not evening call another starOut of the infinite regions of the ...
The Summer Bower (Henry Timrod Poems)
It is a place whither I've often goneFor peace, and found it, secret, hushed, and cool,A beautiful recess in neighboring ...
Spring (Henry Timrod Poems)
Spring, with that nameless pathos in the airWhich dwells with all things fair,Spring, with her golden suns and silver rain,Is ...
Flower-Life (Henry Timrod Poems)
I think that, next to your sweet eyes,And pleasant books, and starry skies, I love the world of flowers;Less for their ...
Dramatic Fragment (Henry Timrod Poems)
Let the boy have his will! I tell thee, brother,We treat these little ones too much like flowers,Training them, in ...
Lines To R. L. (Henry Timrod Poems)
That which we are and shall be is made upOf what we have been. On the autumn leafThe crimson stains ...
Ripley (Henry Timrod Poems)
Rich in red honors, that upon him lieAs lightly as the Summer dewsFall where he won his fame beneath the ...
Love’s Logic (Henry Timrod Poems)
And if I ask thee for a kiss,I ask no more than this sweet breeze,With far less title to the ...
A Summer Shower (Henry Timrod Poems)
Welcome, rain or tempestFrom yon airy powers,We have languished for themMany sultry hours,And earth is sick and wan, and pines ...
To Fairy (Henry Timrod Poems)
Do you recall — I know you do —A little gift once made to you —A simple basket filled with ...
On Pressing Some Flowers (Henry Timrod Poems)
So, they are dead! Love! when they passedFrom thee to me, our fingers met;O withered darlings of the May!I feel ...
Hymn – Consecration (Henry Timrod Poems)
Whose was the hand that painted thee, O Death!In the false aspect of a ruthless foe,Despair and sorrow waiting on ...
Baby’s Age (Henry Timrod Poems)
She came with April blooms and showers;We count her little life by flowers.As buds the rose upon her cheek,We choose ...
Sonnet X “Were I the Poet-Laureate of the Fairies” (Henry Timrod Poems)
(Written on a very small sheet of note-paper)Were I the poet-laureate of the fairies,Who in a rose-leaf finds too broad ...
Sonnet XIII “I Thank You, Kind and Best Beloved Friend” (Henry Timrod Poems)
I thank you, kind and best belov'ed friend,With the same thanks one murmurs to a sister,When, for some gentle favor, ...
Sonnet I “Poet! If on a Lasting Fame Be Bent” (Henry Timrod Poems)
Poet! if on a lasting fame be bentThy unperturbing hopes, thou will not roamToo far from thine own happy heart ...
A Bouquet (Henry Timrod Poems)
Take first a Cowslip, then an Asphodel,A bridal Rose, some snowy Orange flowers;A Lily next, and by its spotless bellPlace ...
To Rosa —-: Acrostic (Henry Timrod Poems)
I took a Rosebud from a certain bower,And by its side placed an Orange flower,Then with the Speedwell, blended the ...