A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even on solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. - Vita Sackville-West;

I don't think anyone who's been reading my Ur-posts lately will fail to realise the significance of this poem for me. ... Come July, rosebay willowherb will be in flower everywhere. And,

Home | Poets | Poems | Free Poetry eBooks | Contests | Sites | Submit a Poem | Manage Your Poems | GameGar | Contact Us ... Surviving all to seize the hour: A firm reward: a solitary flower.

Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring, Of what thy gentle people did befall; Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all;

Krishanthy, named after the flowers bloom in December, a month she was born, really was delicate as a flower.

The Bucket Air-The Flower of Dumblane ... - The Solitary Reaper; - Stepping Westward; - I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud; - She Was a Phantom of Delight; - With ships the sea was sprinkled;

from the solitary and concentrated drunkenness of the man of letters, who, obliged to seek in opium an anodyne for a physical suffering, ... It possesses its greatest energy when it is in flower.

The first flower imagery is suggested by the line, “Let me spread you out among yellow garlands.” This is a plea for happiness, and a gallant seduction, modes which return at the end of the poem.

that the depopulation it [the poem] deplores is nowhere to be seen, and the disorders ... 43Along thy glades, a solitary guest, ... 138And still where many a garden flower grows wild;

'TIS SAID the rose is Love's own flower, Its blush so bright, its thorns so many; And winter on ... A melancholy music rears, A solitary voice, that sighs ; O'er man's forgotten pageantries.