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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 1850s · 22 with this theme Show all eras

Come slowly—Eden!

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Come slowly—Eden!

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Go talk to her, sweet flower

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Go talk to her, sweet flower

by Alfred Austin · English

30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913 (~78)

Gone Forever

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Gone Forever

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

I hide myself within my flower

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I hide myself within my flower

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

In the Heart of a Rose

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In the Heart of a Rose

by George Marion McClellan · English

29 September 1860 - 17 May 1934 (~74)

Life

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Life

by Fannie Isabel Sherrick · English

c. 31 May 1855 - c. 1890 (~35)

Love Well the Hour

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Love Well the Hour

by E. Nesbit · English

15 August 1858 - 4 May 1924 (~66)

Mother Nature

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Mother Nature

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Pink—small—and punctual

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Pink—small—and punctual

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Regret

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Regret

by Richard Le Gallienne · English

20 January 1866 - 15 September 1947 (~81)

So bashful when I spied her

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So bashful when I spied her

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Summer for thee grant I may be

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Summer for thee grant I may be

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Azalea

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The Azalea

by Coventry Patmore · English

23 July 1823 - 26 November 1896 (~73)

The Great Breath

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The Great Breath

by George William Russell · English

10 April 1867 - 17 July 1935 (~68)

The Passion Flower

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The Passion Flower

by Anne Whitney · English

2 September 1821 - 23 January 1915 (~94)

The Poet's Grave

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The Poet's Grave

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

The Sundew

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The Sundew

by Algernon Charles Swinburne · English

5 April 1837 - 10 April 1909 (~72)

The Woodspurge

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The Woodspurge

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti · English

12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882 (~54)

Transplanted

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Transplanted

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Vestigia

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Vestigia

by Bliss Carman · English

15 April 1861 - 8 June 1929 (~68)

Violets at Home

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Violets at Home

by Edward James Mortimer Collins · English

29 June 1827 - 28 July 1876 (~49)

Y Friallen Gyntaf

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Y Friallen Gyntaf

by Watcyn Wyn · Welsh

7 March 1844 - 19 November 1905 (~61)

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