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"thistledown" poems

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Her VoiceThe wild bee reels from bough to bough / With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, / Now in a lily-cup, and now

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Groping for a GhostPuffs of thistledown / floating in the air. / Lovely lady

@kenneth-walter-simpson14

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Snowfall“She can’t be unhappy,” you said, / “The smiles are like stars in her eyes, / And her laugh is thistledown

Sara Teasdale12

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Lily-Bell and Thistledown Song IAwake! Awake! for the earliest gleam / Of golden sunlight shines / On the rippling waves, that brightly flow

Louisa May Alcott28

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Lily-Bell and Thistledown Song IIThistledown in prison sings: / Bright shines the summer sun, / Soft is the summer air;

Louisa May Alcott18

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Lily-Bell'Bright shines the summer sun, / Soft is the summer air; / Gayly the wood-birds sing,

Louisa May Alcott16

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This Blend of Quiet AmbivalenceGreens and gold of lattice work cascading down the tree, / This epiphyte, so infinitely, delicately free. / A lattice work of green finesse, a miniature Cezanne

@marshal-gebbie24

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AutumnThe thistledown’s flying, though the winds are all still, / On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill, / The spring from the fountain now boils like a ***

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Annie's *****There lived, beneath a hanging leaf / A Ladybird called Annie / Who hated being female

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Dreams of SummerAll the glitter and the baubles and the fake razzamataz, / Forced jollity and bonhomie berating me by turns; / The jostling and shoving in the shops and all that jazz,

@sara-l-russell16

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A Dark DayThe gloom that breathes upon me with these airs / Is like the drops which strike the traveller’s brow / Who knows not, darkling, if they bring him now

Dante Gabriel Rossetti14

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Autumn in New ZealandAutumn in New Zealand is a masterpiece on canvas / Patternings of goldens and bright rose hips in their beds, / Copses of coniferous in deep and darkly avenues

@marshal-gebbie24

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World of FantasyDancing on leaves of flowers. / Swimming down water so clear. / Sleeping in cracks of an oak-tree.

@annilda-esterhuysen24

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Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)Prayer Before Birth (1944) - Poem by Louis Macneice / I am not yet born; O hear me. / Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the

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Sweet Lady of the Lakes & Fells. (Sonnet).Dear muse, I penned this verse with feather quill, / To gently praise your beauty of renown, / My words to float aloft your gaze until,

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houses# / *Would that I could gather your houses into my hand, / and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow.

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Creations PrizeMoments fly and phrases die / Like thistledown in breeze, / Creativeness evades

@marshal-gebbie31

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Some PeopleI've chosen to spend my life worshiping it. / I used to lay in the sun for hours and let it make me know. / I could never tell anyone what it was, because there aren't words for it.

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ThistleThistle / You are so beautiful / Fierce in appearance

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TRECKIn the winter of / My darkest sadness / A candle glows,

@LoriJonesMcCaffery16

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Haiku 12Little thistledown / As anxious as you and I / But never ill-judged

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UntitledTo reach out / and touch your cheek, / thistledown-light finger

@amazinglybadidea17

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YouLavender lays where the spider cries / On the gravel path by the lawn / The licacious tree spills its leaves

@mary-gay-kearns10

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