" That poem describes its "sweet and quiet eye" and addresses this flower as "thou blossom bright with autumn dew and coloured with heaven's own blue."
One poem about these flowers describes them as "ribbed and torch-like" and notes that "not every man" has them "in his house at soft September." That poem endows these flowers with "the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom" in connecting them to the Persephone myth, saying that "Persephone herself is but a voice." Another poem about this type of flower says that it blossoms "when frosts and shortening days portend the aged year is near his end." That poem describes its "sweet and quiet eye" and addresses this flower as "thou blossom bright with autumn dew and coloured with heaven's own blue." For 10 points, name this flower, whose Bavarian variety was written about by D. H. Lawrence and whose fringed variety was written about by William Cullen Bryant.
One poem about these flowers describes them as "ribbed and torch-like" and notes that "not every man" has them "in his house at soft September."
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