John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” overflows with florature: “embalmed darkness,” “verdurous glooms,” and “purple-stained mouth”; In A.E. Housman’s “Loveliest of Trees,” cherry blossoms become ornamental tropes of fleeting beauty; Contemporary poet Natalie Diaz layers florature in “Manhattan is a Lenape Word”: “the river’s silver tongue licks the city’s throat”; Emily Dickinson’s floral metaphors (“Hope is the thing with feathers”) exemplify restrained florature; In H.D.’s “Sea Rose,” florature is stripped bare to challenge romantic conventions; Li-Young Lee’s “From Blossoms” uses peaches as florature to meditate on transience and grace.