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“flower” across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 0 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 0 / 90 1600s 5 / 176 1650s 1 / 58 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 5 / 163 1800s 13 / 685 1850s 22 / 943 1900s 11 / 1120 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 13 with this theme Show all eras

A Spanish Girl in Reverie

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A Spanish Girl in Reverie

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. · English

29 August 1809 - 7 October 1894 (~85)

Bright Flower, whose home is every where!

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Bright Flower, whose home is every where!

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Flower-de-Luce

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Flower-de-Luce

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

It was not in the Winter

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It was not in the Winter

by Thomas Hood · English

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

Oh, Love Me! Love Me Still!

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Oh, Love Me! Love Me Still!

by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan · English

22 March 1808 - 15 June 1877 (~69)

The Bluebell

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The Bluebell

by Anne Brontë · English

17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849 (~29)

The Dial of Flowers

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The Dial of Flowers

by Felicia Dorothea Hemans · English

25 September 1793 - 16 May 1835 (~42)

The Flower

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The Flower

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

The Poet's Portion

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The Poet's Portion

by Thomas Hood · English

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

The Rhodora

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The Rhodora

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

To an April's Daisy

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To an April's Daisy

by John Clare · English

13 July 1793 - 20 May 1864 (~71)

To the Daisy

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To the Daisy

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

To the Fringed Gentian

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To the Fringed Gentian

by William Cullen Bryant · English

3 November 1794 - 12 June 1878 (~84)

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