Among the poems in his collection “Pomes Penyeach” (1927) is the 1913 poem “A Flower Given to My Daughter.” In two quatrains rhymed abab, the poem moves through a progression of increasing frailty: a ...

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

Flowers, like those behind, sprang up ahead, As if to vouch for some primordial promise. He’d stop short, and the past would not be dead, Nor would the flowers—in their imperfect beauty, Imperfect ...

The World Is Breaking in Flowers the Breath of Things. By Precious Okoyomon. Our love is a blue instant and forward-looking sky Every dream is a moment of freedom Bliss hovering above the void ...

Poem to mark Queen's death penned by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage - and it features one of her favourite flowers. The poem employs the form of a double acrostic, meaning the first letter of each ...