To My Wife (Robert Henry Forster Poems)
Helper and more than helper! In thissphereYou are supreme and I subordinate.Yours was the artist's eye with vision clearThat made ...
Helper and more than helper! In thissphereYou are supreme and I subordinate.Yours was the artist's eye with vision clearThat made ...
IQUEEN of all flowers! Though others costlier be,And praised more loudly by the curious fewThat value nought save what is ...
ITHE year hath turned, and daily grows the light:The garden stirs and wakens from its sleep,And tiny spikes of green ...
IFLOWERS are poetic, vegetables prose,-So it is said; yet music may there be,Though in a lower, less ecstatic key,In common ...
O FLOWER whose beauty Wordsworth with delightBeheld and sang a hundred years ago,Still hast thou golden loveliness to show,Still is ...
INOT only in the garden may be seenThe garden's beauty. Many a tree and fieldBeyond its bounds a touch of ...
I"HERE are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight."How aptly that immortal poet singsOf these and of all other lovely ...
ITHE season falters: our desires outrunIts progress. Winter, though it yield to spring,Like a dead wasp hath venom in its ...
IPEAR-TREES, once white with April's garlanding,And apple-trees, whose blossoms pink and whiteWhen May was young were pictures of delight,Have not ...
ISTILL do the garden's half-awakened bedsWait for the passing of the wintry cold;But in this fairy palace we beholdThe sheltered ...
ITHE pear's white reign of loveliness is done,But now the apple's carmine buds unclose,And fair white blossoms, faintly tinged with ...
ICHILL was the midnight at the birth of May,And yet ere long the infant month declinedTo wear the rags that ...
IALREADY signs of Autumn have begunWe see his herald in the misty morn:Yonder is yellow stubble, whence the cornWas lately ...
IIs Autumn here, or doth the Summer's reignContinue still? The sun that hath as yetPaid but a portion of his ...
You that have been first in war To meet that menace of the sea,The sunken craft that ne'er before Hath tried death's ...
SUNSHINE and ever sunshine! Day by dayWell nigh with fierceness on the earth it beats.If clouds come near, the darkest ...
FOR weeks we struggled with the summer droughtTo save the lives of sundry scraps of green,So small that they were ...
CHILD of an ancient Himalayan line,Whose cousins thy ancestral home adornNigh where the snow-peaks greet the coming mornWith pink as ...
SNOW falls, but not the snow of winter's chill:'Tis white pear-blossom petals that have doneTheir herald duty. Now the kiss ...
NOW is the garden's pageant all but past.How many a sight of beauty have we seenSince spring put forth the ...
NO fairer sight hath in the garden beenThroughout the summer since the birth of MayThan the tall blossoms which these ...
SNOW on the Mountains! 'Tis the country nameOf this white flower that hangs adown the wall.The snows that on Helvellyn's ...
FULL tide of summer, though it still is May!Out of a cloudless azure shines the sun.The tulip's life of loveliness ...
HERB with the broad green leaves and flowers of gold,Elecampane! These syllables recallA chapter of the greatest tale of al1.If ...
SPRING triumphed, but hath meekly stepped aside,Like a good warrior to his lawful lordYielding the laurels purchased by his sword,With ...
HYACINTHS dormant in their peaty bed;For months no change, no progress to be seen;And then these small excrescences of green,Which ...
OCTOBER! Autumn's empire hath begun;Yet here are blossoms that seem loth to fade.New spikes of blue have these Delphiniums made:Hard ...
THE buds of bloom are opening on the pear;The plum with promised blossom seems alive.Oh, if these tender things can ...
A NARROW border by a wall of whiteAttired with softness of a greyish green:Where pinks and campions will anon be ...
ROSE of the queenly flower and royal name,That like a breastplate wrought of filigreeDeckest the house-wall, and art soon to ...
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