If Flowers Had Ghosts
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
1872 to 1942
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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They'd come a-tremble from the tomb;
Of buds long picked should haunt your room —
So now, when April fires the broom
If flowers had ghosts?
If flowers had ghosts!
Who spoke of her in days of gloom,
You would not — this I greatly pray —
For belles in silk of Jacquard's loom:
Where beaux have knelt with Spring's bouquet
Forget the friends of yesterday,
When wintry fields are bare of bloom
You'd love them when the skies were grey,
If flowers had ghosts, that thin perfume
And cowslips clamber up the coomb,
Your room that dreams in ancient way,