Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical VerseSarah Maguire Chatto & Windus, 2001 - 344 Seiten From Thomas Campion's The Garden in Her Face (1617) to Paul Muldoon's Milkweed and Monarch (1994), via The Song of Solomon and poetry by Marvel, Keats and Tennyson, Sarah Maguire has gathered together a selection of old and new botanical poems to appeal to all tastes. |
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... summer - stained hand . Is it in the sun that truth begins ? Lying under that battering light the first few hours of summer I felt scraped clean , washed down to ignorance . The gold in my ears , souvenir of a shrewd old city , might ...
... summer - stained hand . Is it in the sun that truth begins ? Lying under that battering light the first few hours of summer I felt scraped clean , washed down to ignorance . The gold in my ears , souvenir of a shrewd old city , might ...
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... summer lightning and winter storms , The humps on its thick trunk bulging Like muscles under the weight of its limbs . One year half the buds withered Before they'd opened . The rest stayed sickly yellow . Oak - apples swelled on the ...
... summer lightning and winter storms , The humps on its thick trunk bulging Like muscles under the weight of its limbs . One year half the buds withered Before they'd opened . The rest stayed sickly yellow . Oak - apples swelled on the ...
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... summer wakes her warmest breeze , Among the meadow's waving grasses spread , Or ' neath the shade of hedge or clumping trees , Bowing on slender stem thy heavy head ; In sweet delight I view thy summer bed , And list the drone of heavy ...
... summer wakes her warmest breeze , Among the meadow's waving grasses spread , Or ' neath the shade of hedge or clumping trees , Bowing on slender stem thy heavy head ; In sweet delight I view thy summer bed , And list the drone of heavy ...
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Wild Onion Myrna Stone | 6 |
Snowdrop Ted Hughes | 12 |
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth | 19 |
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