Famous Syringa Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Baby Running Barefoot

...nd-shadow wandering over the water, 
So that she can stand on my knee
With her little bare feet in my hands, 
Cool like syringa buds, 
Firm and silken like pink young peony flowers....Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.


A Roxbury Garden

...rom Boston."
Twinkle, twinkle, the little criss-cross shoes
Up the garden path.
Blue -- pink -- an instant, against the syringa hedge.
But the hoops, white as stripped willow-wands,
Lie in the grass,
And the grasshoppers jump back and forth
Over them.

II
Battledore and Shuttlecock
The shuttlecock soars upward
In a parabola of whiteness,
Turns,
And sinks to a perfect arc.
Plat! the battledore strikes it,
And it rises again,
Without haste,
Winged and curving,
Tracing its white...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

For the Moore Centennial Celebration

...vision,--
Hark! Hark! A soft chord from its song~haunted room,--
'T is a morning of May, when the air is Elysian,--
The syringa in bud and the lilac in bloom,--

We are clustered around the "Clementi" piano,--
There were six of us then,-- there are two of us now,-- 
She is singing-- the girl with the silver soprano--
How "The Lord of the Valley" was false to his vow;

"Let Erin remember" the echoes are calling;
Through "The Vale of Avoca" the waters are rolled;
"The Exile" la...Read more of this...
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hortus

...sit.
Formosae pressit Daphnes vestigia Phaebus
Ut fieret Laurus; sed nil quaesiverat ultra.
Capripes & peteret quod Pan Syringa fugacem,
Hoc erat ut Calamum posset reperire Sonorum.

Note: Desunt multa. Nec tu, Opisex horti, grato sine carmine abibis:
Qui brevibus plantis, & laeto flore, notasti
Crescentes horas, atque intervalla diei.
Sol ibi candidior fragrantia Signa pererrat;
Proque truci Tauro, stricto pro forcipe Cancri,
Securis violaeque rosaeque allabitur umbris.
Sedu...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Syringa

...Orpheus liked the glad personal quality
Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part
Of this. Then one day, everything changed. He rends
Rocks into fissures with lament. Gullies, hummocks
Can't withstand it. The sky shudders from one horizon
To the other, almost ready to give up wholeness.
Then Apollo quietly told him: "Leave it all on ear...Read more of this...
by Ashbery, John


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