Famous Nosegays Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Nosegays poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous nosegays poems. These examples illustrate what a famous nosegays poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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A Child Asleep

...es have sunken
Pleasures, to make room for more---
Sleeping near the withered nosegay, which he pulled the day before.

Nosegays! leave them for the waking:
Throw them earthward where they grew.
Dim are such, beside the breaking
Amaranths he looks unto---
Folded eyes see brighter colours than the open ever do.

Heaven-flowers, rayed by shadows golden
From the paths they sprang beneath,
Now perhaps divinely holden,
Swing against him in a wreath---
We may think so from the quic...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


I went to thank Her

...I went to thank Her --
But She Slept --
Her Bed -- a funneled Stone --
With Nosegays at the Head and Foot --
That Travellers -- had thrown --

Who went to thank Her --
But She Slept --
'Twas Short -- to cross the Sea --
To look upon Her like -- alive --
But turning back -- 'twas slow --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

My nosegays are for Captives

...My nosegays are for Captives --
Dim -- expectant eyes,
Fingers denied the plucking,
Patient till Paradise.

To such, if they should whisper
Of morning and the moor,
They bear no other errand,
And I, no other prayer....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Pickthorn Manor

...e heavily upon 
the past. Among
Her hopes she lived, even when she was giving Her morning orders, 
even when she twined
Nosegays to deck her parlours. With 
the thought Of Everard, her mind
Solaced its solitude, and in her striving
To do as he would wish was all her living.
She welcomed Gervase for the news he brought.

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Black-hearts and white-hearts, bubbled with the 
sun, Hid in their leaves and knocked against each other.
Eunice was standing, panting with her run Up to...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Artists

...arth,
Into a nosegay, with wise choice combined,
Thus the first art from Nature had its birth;
Into a garland then were nosegays twined,
And from the works that mortal hands had made,
A second, nobler art was now displayed.
The child of beauty, self-sufficient now,
That issued from your hands to perfect day,
Loses the chaplet that adorned its brow,
Soon as reality asserts its sway.
The column, yielding to proportion's chains,
Must with its sisters join in friendly link,
The h...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von


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