User: Can you write a poem for me in the style of None?
Assistant: Sure, here's a poem in the style of None:
  Acacia, Yellow                        _Secret love._
Acanthus                              _The fine arts. Artifice._
Adonis, Flos                          _Painful recollections._
African Marigold                      _Vulgar minds._
Alyssum (Sweet)                       _Worth beyond beauty._
Ambrosia                              _Love returned._
American Cowslip                      _Divine beauty._
American Starwort                     _Welcome to a stranger.
Cheerfulness in old age._
Apple, Thorn                          _Deceitful charms._
Apocynum (Dog's Vane)                 _Deceit._
Ash-leaved Trumpet Flower             _Separation._
Bachelor's Buttons                    _Celibacy._
Barberry                              _Sourness of temper._
Bay Leaf                              _I change but in death._
Bay Wreath                            _Reward of merit._
Bell Flower (small white)             _Gratitude._
Belvedere                             _I declare against you._
Blue-flowered Greek Valerian          _Rupture._
Branch of Currants                    _You please all._
Bridal Rose                           _Happy love._
Buckbean                              _Calm repose._
Bud of White Rose                     _Heart ignorant of love._
Bundle of Reeds, with their Panicles  _Music._
Butterfly Weed                        _Let me go._
Camomile                              _Energy in adversity._
Cape Jasmine                          _I'm too happy._
Cardamine                             _Paternal error._
Carnation, Deep Red                   _Alas! for my poor heart._
Catchfly, Red                         _Youthful love._
Cedar Leaf                            _I live for thee._
Celandine (Lesser)                    _Joys to come._
Cereus (Creeping)                     _Modest genius._
Cherry Tree                           _Good education._
Chesnut Tree                          _Do me justice. Luxury._
China Aster, Single                   _I will think of it._
China Rose                            _Beauty always new._
Christmas Rose                        _Relieve my anxiety._
Chrysanthemum, Red                    _I love._
Chrysanthemum, Yellow                 _Slighted love._
Cinquefoil                            _Maternal affection._
Cistus, or Rock Rose                  _Popular favour._
Cistus, Gum                           _I shall die to-morrow._
Citron                                _Ill-natured beauty._
Clematis                              _Mental beauty._
Clover, Four-leaved                   _Be mine._
Clover, White                         _Think of me._
Colchicum, or Meadow Saffron          _My best days are past._
Coltsfoot                             _Justice shall be done._
Columbine, Purple                     _Resolved to win._
Columbine, Red                        _Anxious and trembling._
Convolvulus, Major                    _Extinguished hopes._
Corchorus                             _Impatient of absence._
Coreopsis                             _Always cheerful._
Coreopsis Arkansa                     _Love at first sight._
Coriander                             _Hidden worth._
Cranberry                             _Cure for heartache._
Crocus                                _Abuse not._
Crocus, Spring                        _Youthful gladness._
Crowfoot (Aconite-leaved)             _Lustre._
Cudweed, American                     _Unceasing remembrance._
Currant                               _Thy frown will kill me._
Daisy, Garden                         _I share your sentiments_
Daisy, Party-coloured                 _Beauty._
Daisy, Wild                           _I will think of it._
Damask Rose                           _Brilliant complexion._
Dandelion                             _Rustic oracle._
Daphne Odora                          _Painting the lily._
Darnel (Ray grass)                    _Vice_
Eglantine (Sweetbrier)                _Poetry. I wound to heal._
Enchanter's Nightshade                _Witchcraft. Sorcery._
Evergreen Thorn                       _Solace in adversity._
Everlasting Pea                       _Lasting pleasure._
Ficoides, Ice Plant                   _Your looks freeze me._
I feel your kindness._
Fleur-de-Lis                          _Flame. I burn._
Fleur-de-Luce                         _Fire._
Flower-of-an-Hour                     _Delicate Beauty._
Fool's Parsley                        _Silliness._
Forget Me Not                         _True love. Forget me not._
French Honeysuckle                    _Rustic beauty._
French Willow                         _Bravery and humanity._
Fuller's Teasel                       _Misanthropy._
Garland of Roses                      _Reward of virtue._
Geranium, Ivy                         _Bridal favour._
Geranium, Lemon                       _Unexpected meeting._
Geranium, Nutmeg                      _Expected meeting._
Geranium, Oak-leaved                  _True friendship._
Geranium, Rose-scented                _Preference._
Geranium, Silver-leaved               _Recall._
Geranium, Wild                        _Steadfast piety._
Gillyflower                           _Bonds of affection._
Glory Flower                          _Glorious beauty._
Goat's Rue                            _Reason._
Helmet Flower (Monkshood)             _Knight-errantry._
Hemlock                               _You will be my death._
Hemp                                  _fate._
Hibiscus                              _Delicate beauty._
Honey Flower                          _Love sweet and secret._
Honeysuckle Coral                     _The colour of my fate._
Honeysuckle (French)                  _Rustic beauty._
Hortensia                             _You are cold._
Hundred-leaved Rose                   _Dignity of mind._
Hyacinth, White                       _Unobtrusive loveliness._
Hydrangea                             _A boaster. Heartlessness._
Ice Plant                             _Your looks freeze me._
Indian Cress                          _Warlike trophy._
Indian Pink (Double)                  _Always lovely._
Ivy, Sprig of, with tendrils          _Assiduous to please._
Jacob's Ladder                        _Come down._
Jasmine, Cape                         _Transport of joy._
Jasmine, Indian                       _I attach myself to you._
Jasmine, Yellow                       _Grace and elegance._
Justicia                              _The perfection of female
loveliness._
King-cups                             _Desire of Riches._
Lady's Slipper                        _Capricious Beauty.
Win me and wear me._
Laurel, Common, in flower             _Perfidy._
Laurel-leaved Magnolia                _Dignity._
Leaves (dead)                         _Melancholy._
Lemon Blossoms                        _Fidelity in lore._
Lettuce                               _Cold-heartedness._
Lilac, Purple                         _First emotions of love._
Lily of the Valley                    _Return of happiness._
Linden or Lime Trees                  _Conjugal love._
Lint                                  _I feel my obligations._
Licorice, Wild                        _I declare against you._
Lotus Flower                          _Estranged love._
Love lies Bleeding                    _Hopeless, not heartless._
Mallow, Syrian                        _Consumed by love._
Mallow, Venetian                      _Delicate beauty._
Marigold, African                     _Vulgar minds._
Meadow Saffron                        _My fast days are fast._
Mezereon                              _Desire to please._
Mistletoe                             _I surmount difficulties._
Moss                                  _Maternal love._
Motherwort                            _Concealed love._
Mourning Bride                        _Unfortunate attachment.
I have lost all._
Mouse-eared Chickweed                 _Ingenuous simplicity._
Mouse-eared Scorpion Grass            _Forget me not._
Mulberry Tree (Black)                 _I shall not survive you._
Night-blooming Cereus                 _Transient beauty._
Pasque Flower                         _You have no claims._
Passion Flower                        _Religious superstition._
Pea, Everlasting                      _An appointed meeting.
Peach                                 _Your qualities,
like your charms, are unequalled._
Peach Blossom                         _I am your captive._
Pennyroyal                            _Flee away._
Peppermint                            _Warmth of feeling._
Periwinkle, Blue                      _Early friendship._
Periwinkle, White                     _Pleasures of memory._
Pheasant's Eye                        _Remembrance._
Pine-apple                            _You are perfect._
Pine, Spruce                          _Hope in adversity._
Pink, Carnation                       _Woman's love._
Pink, Indian, Double                  _Always lovely._
Pink, Red, Double                     _Pure and ardent love._
Pink, Single                          _Pure love._
Polyanthus                            _Pride of riches._
Polyanthus, Crimson                   _The heart's mystery._
Pomegranate, Flower                   _Mature elegance._
Poppy, Scarlet                        _Fantastic extravagance._
Primrose                              _Early youth._
Primrose, Red                         _Unpatronized merit._
Red Catchfly                          _Youthful lore._
Rose, Bridal                          _Happy love._
Rose, Burgundy                        _Unconscious beauty._
Rose, Cabbage                         _Ambassador of love._
Rose, Campion                         _Only deserve my love._
Rose, Carolina                        _Love is dangerous._
Rose, China                           _Beauty always new._
Rose, Christmas                       _Tranquillize my anxiety._
Rose, Daily                           _Thy smile I aspire to._
Rose, Damask                          _Brilliant complexion._
Rose, Deep Red                        _Bashful shame._
Rose, Dog                             _Pleasure and pain._
Rose, Hundred-leaved                  _Pride._
Rose, Maiden Blush                    _If you love me, you will
find it out._
Rose, Musk                            _Capricious beauty._
Rose, Thornless                       _Early attachment._
Rose, Unique                          _Call me not beautiful._
Rose, White                           _I am worthy of you._
Rose, White (withered)                _Transient impressions._
Rose, Full-blown, placed over
Rose, White and Red together          _Unity._
Roses, Crown of                       _Reward of virtue._
Rosebud, Red                          _Pure and lovely._
Rosebud, Moss                         _Confession of love._
Rye Grass                             _Changeable disposition_
Saffron                               _Beware of excess._
Sage                                  _Domestic virtue._
Saint John's Wort                     _Animosity. Superstition._
Scabious                              _Unfortunate love._
Scarlet Lychnis                       _Sunbeaming eyes._
Schinus                               _Religions enthusiasm._
Shamrock                              _Light heartedness._
Sorrel, Wild                          _Wit ill-timed._
Spearmint                             _Warmth of sentiment._
Speedwell                             _Female fidelity._
Spiderwort                            _Esteem not love._
Spindle Tree                          _Your charms are engraven
on my heart._
Starwort, American                    _Cheerfulness in old age._
Stock                                 _Lasting beauty._
Straw, Broken                         _Rupture of a contract._
Strawberry Tree                       _Esteem and love._
Swallow-wort                          _Cure for heartache._
Sweet Basil                           _Good wishes._
Sweetbrier, European                  _I wound to heal._
Sweetbrier, Yellow                    _Decrease of love._
Sweet Pea                             _Delicate pleasures._
Thistle, Fuller's                     _Misanthropy_
Thorn Apple                           _Deceitful charms._
Throatwort                            _Neglected beauty._
Traveller's Joy                       _Safety._
Tree of Life                          _Old age._
Trillium Pictum                       _Modest beauty._
Tuberose                              _Dangerous pleasures._
Tulip, Red                            _Declaration of love._
Tulip, Variegated                     _Beautiful eyes._
Tulip, Yellow                         _Hopeless love._
Venus' Car                            _Fly with me._
Venus' Looking-glass                  _Flattery._
Vernal Grass                          _Poor, but happy._
Violet, Yellow                        _Rural happiness._
Virginian Spiderwort                  _Momentary happiness._
Virgin's Bower                        _Filial love._
Volkamenia                            _May you be happy._
Wall-flower                           _Fidelity in adversity._
Water Lily                            _Purity of heart._
White Mullein                         _Good nature._
White Rose (dried)                    _Death preferable to loss
of innocence._
Willow, Creeping                      _Love forsaken._
Willow, French                        _Bravery and humanity._
Witch Hazel                           _A spell._
Woodbine                              _Fraternal love._
Wood Sorrel                           _Joy. Maternal tenderness._
Affection beyond the grave            _Green Locust._
Affection, maternal                   _Cinquefoil._
Alas! for my poor heart               _Deep Red Carnation._
Always cheerful                       _Coreopsis._
Always lovely                         _Indian Pink (double)._
Ambassador of love                    _Cabbage Rose._
Animosity                             _St. John's Wort._
Anxious and trembling                 _Red Columbine._
Arts or artifice                      _Acanthus._
Bantering                             _Southern-wood._
Bashful shame                         _Deep Red Rose._
Beautiful eyes                        _Variegated Tulip._
Beauty                                _Party-coloured Daisy._
Beauty always new                     _China Rose._
Beauty, capricious                    _Lady's Slipper._
Beauty, capricious                    _Musk Rose._
Beauty, delicate                      _Flower of an Hour._
Beauty, delicate                      _Hibiscus._
Beauty, divine                        _American Cowslip._
Beauty, glorious                      _Glory Flower._
Beauty, lasting                       _Stock._
Beauty, magnificent                   _Calla Aethiopica._
Beauty, mental                        _Clematis._
Beauty, modest                        _Trillium Pictum._
Beauty, neglected                     _Throatwort._
Beauty, pensive                       _Laburnum._
Beauty, rustic                        _French Honeysuckle._
Beauty, unconscious                   _Burgundy Rose._
Be mine                               _Four-leaved Clover._
Bravery and humanity                  _French Willow._
Bridal favour                         _Ivy Geranium._
Brilliant complexion                  _Damask Rose._
Bury me amid Nature's beauties        _Persimon._
Call me not beautiful                 _Rose Unique._
Calm repose                           _Buckbean._
Changeable disposition                _Rye Grass._
Charms, deceitful                     _Thorn Apple._
Cheerfulness under adversity          _Chinese Chrysanthemum._
Colour of my life                     _Coral Honeysuckle._
Come down                             _Jacob's Ladder._
Concealed love                        _Motherwort._
Confession of love                    _Moss Rosebud._
Conjugal love                         _Lime, or Linden Tree._
Consumed by love                      _Syrian Mallow._
Cure for heartache                    _Swallow-wort._
Death preferable to loss of innocence _White Rate (dried)._
Deceitful charms                      _Thorn Apple._
Declaration of love                   _Red Tulip._
Decrease of love                      _Yellow Rose._
Desire to please                      _Mezercon._
Dignity                               _Laurel-leaved Magnolia._
Divine beauty                         _American Cowslip._
Domestic industry                     _Flax._
Domestic virtue                       _Sage._
Early attachment                      _Thornless Rose_
Early friendship                      _Blue Periwinkle._
Early youth                           _Primrose._
Elegance and grace                    _Yellow Jasmine._
Energy in adversity                   _Camomile._
Esteem not love                       _Spiderwort._
Esteem and love                       _Strawberry Tree._
Estranged love                        _Lotus Flower._
Expected meeting                      _Nutmeg Geranium._
Extinguished hopes                    _Major Convolvulus._
Fame speaks him great and good        _Apple Blossom._
Fantastic extravagance                _Scarlet Poppy._
Fashion                               _Queen's Rocket._
Female fidelity                       _Speedwell._
Filial love                           _Virgin's bower._
Fidelity in adversity                 _Wall-flower._
Fidelity in love                      _Lemon Blossoms._
Fire                                  _Fleur-de-Luce._
First emotions of love                _Purple Lilac._
Flame                                 _Fleur-de-lis. Iris._
Flattery                              _Venus' Looking-glass._
Flee away                             _Pennyroyal._
Fly with me                           _Venus' Car._
For once may pride befriend me        _Tiger Flower._
Fraternal love                        _Woodbine._
Friendship, early                     _Blue Periwinkle._
Friendship, true                      _Oak-leaved Geranium._
Friendship, unchanging                _Arbor Vitae._
Generous and devoted affection        _French Honeysuckle._
Glorious beauty                       _Glory Flower._
Good education                        _Cherry Tree._
Good wishes                           _Sweet Basil._
Grace and elegance                    _Yellow Jasmine._
Gratitude                             _Small White Bell-flower._
Happy love                            _Bridal Rose._
Hidden worth                          _Coriander._
Hope in adversity                     _Spruce Pine._
Hopeless love                         _Yellow Tulip._
Hopeless, not heartless               _Love Lies Bleating._
I am too happy                        _Cape Jasmine._
I am your captive                     _Peach Blossom._
I am worthy of you                    _White Rose._
I change but in death                 _Bay Leaf._
I declare against you                 _Belvedere._
I declare against you                 _Liquorice._
I declare war against you             _Wild Tansy._
I die if neglected                    _Laurestina._
I desire a return of affection        _Jonquil._
I feel my obligations                 _Lint._
I feel your kindness                  _Flax._
I have lost all                       _Mourning Bride._
I live for thee                       _Cedar Leaf._
I love                                _Red Chrysanthemum._
I partake of your sentiments          _Double China Aster._
I partake your sentiments             _Garden Daisy._
I shall die to-morrow                 _Gum Cistus._
I shall not survive you               _Black Mulberry._
I surmount difficulties               _Mistletoe._
I will think of it                    _Single China Aster._
I will think of it                    _Wild Daisy._
I wound to heal                       _Eglantine (Sweetbrier)._
If you love me, you will find it out  _Maiden Blush Rose._
Ill-natured beauty                    _Citron._
Impatience                            _yellow Balsam._
Impatient of absence                  _Corchorus._
Impatient resolves                    _Red Balsam._
Ingenuous simplicity                  _Mouse-eared Chickweed._
Joys to come                          _Lesser Celandine._
Justice shall be done to you          _Coltsfoot._
Justice shall be done to you          _Sweet-scented Tussilage._
Lasting beauty                        _Stock._
Lasting pleasures                     _Everlasting Pea._
Love, forsaken                        _Creeping Willow._
Love, returned                        _Ambrosia._
Love is dangerous                     _Carolina Rose._
Lustre                                _Aconite-leaved Crowfoot,
Magnificent beauty                    _Calla, Aethiopica._
Maternal affection                    _Cinquefoil._
Maternal love                         _Moss._
Maternal tenderness                   _Wood Sorrel._
May you be happy                      _Volkamenia_
Mental beauty                         _Clematis._
Mental beauty                         _Kennedia._
Misanthropy                           _Fuller's Teasel._
Modest beauty                         _Trillium Pictum._
Modest genius                         _Creeping Cereus._
Modesty and purity                    _White Lily._
Momentary happiness                   _Virginian Spiderwort._
Music                                 _Bundles of Reed with their
My regrets follow you to the grave    _Asphodel._
Neglected beauty                      _Throatwort._
Never-ceasing remembrance             _Everlasting._
Only deserve my love                  _Campion Rose._
Painful recollections                 _Flos Adonis._
Painting the lily                     _Daphne Odora._
Paternal error                        _Cardamine._
Perfidy                               _Common Laurel, in flower._
Pensive beauty                        _Laburnum._
Pleasure and pain                     _Dog Rose._
Pleasure, lasting                     _Everlasting Pea._
Pleasures of memory                   _White Periwinkle._
Popular favour                        _Cistus, or Rock Rose._
Pride                                 _Hundred-leaved Rose._
Promptness                            _Ten-week Stock._
Pure love                             _Single Red Pink._
Pure and ardent love                  _Double Red Pink._
Pure and lovely                       _Red Rosebud._
Quarrel                               _Broken Corn-straw._
Quicksightedness                      _Hawk-weed._
Reason                                _Goat's Rue._
Recall                                _Silver-leaved Geranium._
Relieve my anxiety                    _Christmas Rose._
Religious superstition                _Aloe._
Religious superstition                _Passion Flower._
Religious enthusiasm                  _Schinus._
Return of happiness                   _Lily of the Valley._
Reward of merit                       _Bay Wreath._
Reward of virtue                      _Garland of Roses._
Rural happiness                       _Yellow Violet._
Rustic beauty                         _French Honeysuckle._
Rustic oracle                         _Dandelion._
Safety                                _Traveller's Joy._
Silliness                             _Fool's Parsley._
Slighted love                         _Yellow Chrysanthemum._
Splendid beauty                       _Amaryllis._
Sporting                              _Fox-tail Grass._
Success crown your wishes             _Coronella._
Sunbeaming eyes                       _Scarlet Lychnis._
The colour of my fate                 _Coral Honeysuckle._
The heart's mystery                   _Crimson Polyanthus._
The perfection of female loveliness   _Justicia._
The witching soul of music            _Oats._
Thoughts of absent friends            _Zinnia._
Thy frown wilt kill me                _Currant._
Thy smile I aspire to                 _Daily Rose._
Tranquillize my anxiety               _Christmas Rose._
Transient beauty                      _Night-blooming Cereus._
Transient impressions                 _Withered White Rose._
True love                             _Forget Me Not._
True Friendship                       _Oak-leaved Geranium._
Unceasing remembrance                 _American Cudweed._
Unchanging friendship                 _Arbor Vitae._
Unconscious beauty                    _Burgundy Rose._
Unexpected meeting                    _Lemon Geranium._
Unfortunate attachment                _Mourning Bride._
Unfortunate love                      _Scabious._
Unpatronized merit                    _Red Primrose._
Warlike trophy                        _Indian Cress._
Warmth of feeling                     _Peppermint._
Welcome to a stranger                 _American Starwort._
Win me and wear me                    _Lady's Slipper._
Winning grace                         _Cowslip._
Wit ill-timed                         _Wild Sorrel._
Witchcraft                            _Enchanter's Nightshade._
Worth beyond beauty                   _Sweet Alyssum._
Worth sustained by judicious and
tender affection                      _Pink Convolvulus._
Worthy all praise                     _Fennel._
You are cold                          _Hortensia._
You are my divinity                   _American Cowslip._
You are perfect                       _Pine Apple._
You are radiant with charms           _Ranunculus._
You are rich in attractions           _Garden Ranunculus._
You are the queen of coquettes        _Queen's Rocket._
You have no claims                    _Pasque Flower._
You please all                        _Branch of Currants._
You will be my death.                 _Hemlock._
Your charms are engraven on my heart  _Spindle Tree._
Your looks freeze me                  _Ice Plant._
Your presence softens my pains        _Milkvetch._
Your purity equals your loveliness    _Orange Blossoms._
Your qualities, like your charms,
are unequalled                        _Peach._
Your qualities surpass your charms    _Mignionette._
Youthful innocence                    _White Lilac._
Youthful love                         _Red Catchfly._
I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden Daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle in the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company;
I gazed and gazed, but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought!
For oft when on my couch I lie,
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the Daffodils.
Go, lovely Rose!
Tell her that wastes her time on me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Tell her that's young.
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.
Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired;
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blush so to be admired.
Then die, that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair,
Yet, though thou fade,
From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise
And teach the maid
That goodness Time's rude hand defies;
That virtue lives when beauty dies.
A SENSITIVE Plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
And closed them beneath the kisses of Night.
But none ever trembled and panted with bliss
In the garden, the field, or the wilderness,
Like doe in the noontide with love's sweet want,
As the companionless Sensitive Plant.
The snowdrop, and then the violet,
Arose from the ground with warm rain wet,
And their breath was mixed with fresh odour, sent,
From the turf, like the voice and the instrument.
Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall,
And narcissi, the fairest among them all,
Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess,
Till they die of their own dear loveliness.
And the naiad-like lily of the vale.
Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale,
That the light of its tremulous bells is seen
Through their pavilions of tender green;
And the hyacinth purple, and white, and blue,
Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew
Of music so delicate, soft and intense,
It was felt like an odour within the sense!
And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare;
And the wand-like lily, which lifted up,
As a Maenad, its moonlight-coloured cup,
Till the fiery star, which is its eye,
Gazed through the clear dew on the tender sky;
And the jessamine faint, and the sweet tuberose,
The sweetest flower for scent that blows;
And all rare blossoms from every clime
Grew in that garden in perfect prime.
The Sensitive Plant, which could give small fruit
Of the love which it felt from the leaf to the root,
Received more than all [flowers], it loved more than ever,
Where none wanted but it, could belong to the giver--
For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower;
Radiance and odour are not its dower;
It loves, even like Love its deep heart is full,
It desires what it has not, the beautiful!
Each and all like ministering angels were
For the Sensitive Plant sweet joy to bear.
Whilst the lagging hours of the day went by
Like windless clouds o'er a tender sky.
And when evening descended from heaven above,
And the earth was all rest, and the air was all love,
And delight, though less bright, was far more deep,
And the day's veil fell from the world of sleep,
The Sensitive Plant was the earliest
Up-gathered into the bosom of rest;
A sweet child weary of its delight,
The feeblest, and yet the favourite,
Cradled within the embrace of night.
O LUVE will venture in, where it daur na weel be seen,
O luve will venture in, where wisdom ance has been;
But I will down yon river rove, amang the wood sae green,
And a' to pu' a posie to my ain dear May.
The primrose I will pu', the firstling o' the year,
And I will pu' the pink, the emblem o' my dear,
For she's the pink o' womankind, and blooms without a peer;
And a' to be a posie to my ain dear May.
I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view,
For it's like a baumy kiss o' her sweet bonnie mou;
The hyacinth's for constancy w' its unchanging blue,
And a' to be a posie to my ain dear May.
The lily it is pure, and the lily it is fair.
And in her lovely bosom I'll place the lily there;
The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air,
And a' to be a posie to my ain dear May.
The hawthorn I will pu', wi' its locks o' siller grey,
Where, like an aged man, it stands at break o' day,
But the songster's nest within the bush I winna tak away;
And a' to be a posie to my ain dear May.
The woodbine I will pu' when the e'ening star is near,
And the diamond-drops o' dew shall be her e'en sae clear:
The violet's for modesty which weel she fa's to wear,
And a' to be a posie to my ain dear May.
I'll tie the posie round w' the silken band o' luve,
And I'll place it in her breast, and I'll swear by a' above,
That to my latest draught o' life the band shall ne'er remuve.
And this will be a posie to my ain dear May.
TUNE--_"There'll never be peace" &c._
Now in her green mantle blithe Nature arrays.
And listens the lambkins that bleat o'er the braes,
While birds warble welcome in ilka green shaw;
But to me it's delightless--my Nannie's awa.
The snaw-drap and primrose our woodlands adorn,
And violets bathe in the weet o' the morn;
They pain my sad bosom, sae sweetly they blaw,
They mind me o' Nannie--and Nannie's awa.
Thou lav'rock that springs frae the dews of the lawn,
The shepherd to warn o' the grey-breaking dawn,
And thou mellow mavis that hails the night-fa',
Give over for pity--my Nannie 's awa.
Come, autumn, sae pensive, in yellow and grey,
And sooth me wi' tidings o' Nature's decay;
The dark, dreary winter, and wild-driving snaw,
Alane can delight me--now Nannie's awa,
THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon,
Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume;
Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan,
Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom.
Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers,
Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen;
For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers,
A listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean.
_On turning one down with a plough, in April_ 1786.
WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r,
Thou's met me in an evil hour;
For I maun crush amang-the stoure
Thy slender stem;
To spare ihee now is past my po'w'r,
Thou bonnie gem.
Alas! it's no thy neebor sweet,
The bonnie _Lark_, companion meet!
Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet!
Wi' spreckled breast,
When upward-springing, blythe, to greet
The purpling east.
Could blew the bitter-biting north
Upon thy early, humble birth;
Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth
Amid the storm,
Scarce rear'd above the parent earth
Thy tender form.
The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield.
High shell'ring woods and wa's maun shield,
But thou beneath the random bield
O' clod or stane,
Adorns the histie _stibbte-Jleld,_
Unseen, alane.
There, in thy scanty mantle clad,
Thy snawy bosom sun-ward spread,
Thou lifts thy unassuming head
In humble guise;
But now the _share_ uptears thy bed,
And low thou lies!
Such is the fate of artless Maid,
Sweety _flow'ret_ of the rural shade!
By love's simplicity betray'd.
And guileless trust,
Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid
Low i' the dust.
Such is the fate of simple Bard,
On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd!
Unskilful he to note the card
Of _prudent lore_,
Till billows rage, and gales blow hard.
And whelm him o'er!
Such fate to _suffering worth_ is giv'n,
Who long with wants and woes has striv'n,
By human pride or cunning driv'n,
To mis'ry's brink.
Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but _Heav'n_,
He, ruin'd, sink!
Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate,
_That fate is thine_--no distant date;
Stern Ruin's _plough-share_ drives, elate.
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight,
Shall be thy doom!
Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree,
And spreads her sheets c' daisies white
Out o'er the grassy lea;
Now Phoebus cheers the crystal streams,
And glads the azure skies;
But nought can glad the weary wight
That fast in durance lies.
Now lav'rocks wake the merry morn,
Aloft on dewy wing;
The merle, in his noontide bow'r,
Makes woodland echoes ring;
The mavis mild wi' many a note,
Sings drowsy day to rest:
In love and freedom they rejoice,
Wi' care nor thrall opprest.
Now blooms the lily by the bank,
The primrose down the brae;
The hawthorn's budding in the glen,
And milk-white is the slae;
The meanest hind in fair Scotland
May rove their sweets amang;
Maun lie in prison strang.
I was the Queen o' bonnie France,
Where happy I hae been;
Fu' lightly rase I in the morn,
As blythe lay down at e'en;
And I'm the sov'reign of Scotland,
And mony a traitor there;
Yet here I lie in foreign Lands,
And never ending care.
But as for thee, thou false woman,
My sister and my fae,
Grim vengeance, yet, shall whet a sword
That thro thy soul shall gae:
The weeping blood in woman's breast
Was never known to thee;
Nor th' balm that draps on wounds of woe
Frae woman's pitying e'e.
My son! my son! may kinder stars
Upon thy fortune shine;
And may those pleasures gild thy reign.
That ne'er wad blink on mine!
God keep thee frae thy mother's faes,
Or turn their hearts to thee:
And where thou meet'st thy mother's friend,
Oh! soon, to me, may summer-suns
Nae mair light up the morn!
Nae mair, to me, the autumn winds
Wave o'er the yellow corn!
And in the narrow house o' death
Let winter round me rave;
And the next flow'rs that deck the spring,
Bloom on my peaceful grave!
READ in these Roses the sad story
Of my hard fate, and your own glory;
In the white you may discover
The paleness of a fainting lover;
In the red the flames still feeding
On my heart with fresh wounds bleeding.
The white will tell you how I languish,
And the red express my anguish.
The white my innocence displaying,
The red my martyrdom betraying;
The frowns that on your brow resided,
Have those roses thus divided.
Oh! let your smiles but clear the weather,
And then they both shall grow together.
SWEET is the rose, but growes upon a brere;
Sweet is the Juniper, but sharpe his bough;
Sweet is the Eglantine, but pricketh nere;
Sweet is the Firbloom, but his branches rough;
Sweet is the Cypress, but his rind is tough,
Sweet is the Nut, but bitter is his pill;
Sweet is the Broome-flowere, but yet sowre enough;
And sweet is Moly, but his roote is ill.
So every sweet with sowre is tempred still,
That maketh it be coveted the more:
For easie things that may be got at will,
Most sorts of men doe set but little store.
Why then should I account of little pain,
That endless pleasure shall unto me gaine?
WHY do ye weep, sweet babes? Can tears
Speak grief in you,
Who were but born
Just as the modest morn
Teemed her refreshing dew?
Alas! ye have not known that shower
That mars a flower;
Nor felt the unkind
Breath of a blasting wind;
Nor are ye worn with years;
Or warped as we,
Who think it strange to see
Such pretty flowers, like to orphans young.
Speaking by tears before ye have a tongue.
Speak, whimpering younglings, and make known
The reason why
Ye droop and weep,
Is it for want of sleep,
Or childish lullaby
Or that ye have not seen as yet
The violet
Or brought a kiss
From that sweetheart to this?
No, no; this sorrow shown
By your tears shed,
Would have this lecture read:
That things of greatest, so of meanest worth.
Conceived with grief are, and with tears brought forth.
O, MY luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O, my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass.
So deep in hive am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt w' the sun;
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel a while;
And I will come again, my luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.
VIRGINS promised when I died,
That they would each primrose-tide
Duly, morn and evening, come,
And with flowers dress my tomb.
--Having promised, pay your debts,
Maids, and here strew violets.
MUSIC, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours when sweet violets sicken,
Love within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts when thou art gone.
Love itself shall slumber on.
RADIANT sister of the day
Awake! arise! and come away!
To the wild woods and the plains,
To the pools where winter rains
Image all their roof of leaves,
Where the pine its garland weaves
Of sapless green, and ivy dun,
Round stems that never kiss the sun.
Where the lawns and pastures be
And the sandhills of the sea,
Where the melting hoar-frost wets
The daisy star that never sets,
And wind-flowers and violets
Which yet join not scent to hue
Crown the pale year weak and new:
When the night is left behind
In the deep east, dim and blind,
And the blue moon is over us,
And the multitudinous
Billows murmur at our feet,
Where the earth and ocean meet
And all things seem only one
In the universal sun.
FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet, the early-rising sun
Has not attained its noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hastening day
Has run
But to the even song;
And having prayed together, we
Will go with you along.
We have short time to stay as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you or any thing.
We die,
As your hours do, and dry
Like to the summer's rain,
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
Ne'er to be found again.
LAY a garland on my hearse
Of the dismal yew;
Maidens willow branches bear;
Say, _I died true_.
My love was false, but I was firm
From my hour of birth.
Upon my buried body lie
Lightly, gentle earth!
MOURN, ilka grove the cushat kens!
Ye haz'lly shaws and briery dens!
Ye burnies, wimplin down your glens,
Wi' toddlin din,
Or foaming strang, wi' hasty stens,
Frae lin to lin.
Mourn little harebells o'er the lee;
Ye stately foxgloves fair to see;
Ye woodbines hanging bonnilie,
In scented bow'rs;
Ye roses on your thorny tree.
The first o' flow'rs.
At dawn, when ev'ry grassy blade
Droops with a diamond at his head,
At ev'n, when beans their fragrance shed,
I' th' rustling gale,
Ye maukins whiddin thro' the glade,
Come join my wail.
Mourn, spring, thou darling of the year;
Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear:
Thou, simmer, while each corny spear
Shoots up its head,
Thy gay, green, flow'ry tresses shear,
For him that's dead!
Thou, autumn, wi' thy yellow hair,
In grief thy sallow mantle tear!
Thou, winter, hurling thro' the air
The roaring blast,
Wide o'er the naked world declare
The worth we've lost!
PPANSIES, Lilies, King-cups, Daisies,
Let them live upon their praises;
Long as there's a sun that sets,
Primroses will have their glory;
Long as there are Violets,
They will have a place in story;
There's a flower that shall be mine,
'Tis the little Celandine.
Ere a leaf is on the bush,
In the time before the thrush
Has a thought about her nest,
Thou wilt come with half a call,
Spreading out thy glossy breast
Like a careless prodigal;
Telling tales about the sun,
When we've little warmth, or none.
Comfort have thou of thy merit,
Kindly unassuming spirit!
Careless of thy neighbourhood,
Thou dost show thy pleasant face
On the moor, and in the wood,
In the lane--there's not a place,
Howsoever mean it be,
But 'tis good enough for thee.
Ill befall the yellow flowers,
Children of the flaring hours!
Buttercups that will be seen,
Whether we will see or no;
Others, too, of lofty mien,
They have done as worldlings do,
Taken praise that should be thine,
Little, humble Celandine!
Prophet of delight and mirth,
Ill requited upon earth;
Herald of a mighty band,
Of a joyous train ensuing,
Serving at my heart's command,
Tasks that are no tasks renewing;
I will sing, as doth behove,
Hymns in praise of what I love!
FFAIR pledges of a fruitful tree,
Why do ye fall so fast?
Your date is not so past,
But you may stay yet here awhile
To blush and gently smile.
And go at last.
What, were you born to be,
An hour or half's delight,
And so to bid good-night?
'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth,
Merely to show your worth
And lose you quite.
But you are lovely leaves, where we
May read, how soon things have
Their end, though ne'er so brave:
And after they have shown their pride,
Like you, awhile, they glide
Into the grave.
THE nymph must lose her female friend,
If more admired than she--
But where will fierce contention end,
If flowers can disagree.
Within the garden's peaceful scene
Appear'd two lovely foes,
Aspiring to the rank of queen,
The Rose soon redden'd into rage,
And, swelling with disdain,
Appeal'd to many a poet's page
To prove her right to reign.
The Lily's height bespoke command,
A fair imperial flower;
She seem'd designed for Flora's hand,
The sceptre of her power.
This civil bick'ring and debate
The goddess chanced to hear,
And flew to save, ere yet too late,
The pride of the parterre.
Yours is, she said, the nobler hue,
And yours the statelier mien;
And, till a third surpasses you,
Let each be deemed a queen.
Thus, soothed and reconciled, each seeks
The fairest British fair:
The seat of empire is her cheeks,
They reign united there.
WHY this flower is now called so,
List, sweet maids, and you shall know.
Understand this firstling was
Once a brisk and bonny lass,
Kept as close as Danae was,
Who a sprightly springald loved;
And to have it fully proved,
Up she got upon a wall,
'Tempting down to slide withal;
But the silken twist untied,
So she fell, and, bruised, she died.
Jove, in pity of the deed,
And her loving, luckless speed,
Turn'd her to this plant we call
Now "the flower of the wall."
ASK me why I send you here,
This firstling of the infant year;
Ask me why I send to you
This Primrose all bepearled with dew;
I straight will whisper in your ears,
The sweets of love are washed with tears.
Ask me why this flower doth show
So yellow, green, and sickly too;
Ask me why the stalk is weak
And bending, yet it doth not break;
I must tell you, these discover
What doubts and fears are in a lover.
IN midst of all, there lay a sleeping youth
Of fondest beauty. Sideway his face reposed
On one white arm, and tenderly unclosed,
By tenderest pressure, a faint damask mouth
To slumbery pout; just as the morning south
Disparts a dew-lipp'd rose. Above his head,
Four lily stalks did their white honours wed
To make a coronal; and round him grew
All tendrils green, of every bloom and hue,
Together intertwined and trammel'd fresh:
The vine of glossy sprout; the ivy mesh,
Shading its Ethiop berries; and woodbine,
Of velvet leaves, and bugle blooms divine.
Stood serene Cupids watching silently.
One, kneeling to a lyre, touch'd the strings,
Muffling to death the pathos with his wings;
And, ever and anon, uprose to look
At the youth's slumber; while another took
A willow bough, distilling odorous dew,
And shook it on his hair; another flew
In through the woven roof, and fluttering-wise,
Rain'd violets upon his sleeping eyes.
MODONNA, wherefore hast thou sent to me
Embleming love and health, which never yet
In the same wreath might be.
Alas, and they are wet!
Is it with thy kisses or thy tears?
For never rain or dew
Such fragrance drew
From plant or flower; the very doubt endears
My sadness ever new,
The sighs I breathe, the tears I shed, for thee.
THERE grew pied Wind-flowers and Violets,
Daisies, those pearl'd Arcturi of the earth,
The constellated flowers that never set;
Faint Oxlips; tender Blue-bells, at whose birth
The sod scarce heaved; and that tall flower that wets
Its mother's face with Heaven-collected tears,
When the low wind, its playmate's voice, it hears.
And in the warm hedge grew lush Eglantine,
Green Cow-bind and the moonlight-colour'd May
And cherry blossoms, and white cups, whose wine
Was the bright dew yet drained not by the day;
And Wild Roses, and Ivy serpentine
With its dark buds and leaves, wandering astray,
And flowers azure, black, and streaked with gold,
Fairer than any wakened eyes behold.
And nearer to the river's trembling edge
There grew broad flag-flowers, purple prankt with white,
And starry river buds among the sedge.
And floating Water-lilies, broad and bright,
Which lit the oak that overhung the hedge
With moonlight beams of their own watery light;
And bulrushes, and reeds of such deep green
As soothed the dazzled eye with sober sheen.
FADE, Flow'rs! fade, Nature will have it so;
'Tis but what we must in our autumn do!
And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground,
The loss alone by those that lov'd them found;
So in the grave shall we as quiet lie,
Miss'd by some few that lov'd our company;
But some so like to thorns and nettles live,
That none for them can, when they perish, grieve.
HERE damask Roses, white and red,
Out of my lap first take I,
Which still shall run along the thread,
My chiefest flower this make I.
Amongst these Roses in a row,
Next place I Pinks in plenty,
These double Pansies then for show;
And will not this be dainty
The pretty Pansy then I'll tie,
Like stones some chain inchasing;
And next to them, their near ally,
The purple Violet placing.
The curious choice clove July flower,
Whose kind hight the Carnation,
For sweetnest of most sovereign power,
Shall help my wreath to fashion;
Whose sundry colours of one kind,
First from one root derived,
Them in their several suits I'll bind:
My garland so contrived.
A course of Cowslips then I'll stick,
And here and there (though sparely)
The pleasant Primrose down I'll prick.
Like pearls that will show rarely;
Then with these Marigolds I'll make
My garland somewhat swelling,
These Honeysuckles then I'll take,
Whose sweets shall help their smelling.
The Lily and the Fleur-de-lis.
For colour much contending;
For that I them do only prize,
They are but poor in scenting.
The Daffodil most dainty is,
To match with these in meetness;
The Columbine compared to this,
All much alike for sweetness.
These in their natures only are
Fit to emboss the border.
Therefore I'll take especial care
To place them in their order:
Sweet-williams, Campions, Sops-in-wine,
One by another neatly;
Thus have I made this wreath of mine,
And finished it featly.
THERE is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heavenly paradise is that place.
Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow;
There cherries grow that none may buy
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearl a double row,
Which, when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow;
Yet them no peer nor prince may buy
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
Her eyes like angels watch them still,
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threatening with piercing frowns to kill
All that approach with eye or hand
These sacred cherries to come nigh.
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
THE pride of every grove I chose,
The violet sweet and lily fair,
The dappled pink and blushing rose,
To deck my charming Cloe's hair.
At morn the nymph vouchaf'd to place
Upon her brow the various wreath;
The flowers less blooming than her face,
The scent less fragrant than her breath.
The flowers she wore along the day;
And every nymph and shepherd said,
That in her hair they look'd more gay
Than glowing in their native bed.
Undrest, at ev'ning, when she found
Their odours lost, their colours past;
She chang'd her look, and on the ground
Her garland and her eye she cast.
That eye dropt sense distinct and clear,
As any muse's tongue could speak,
When from its lid a pearly tear
Ran trickling down her beauteous cheek.
Dissembling what I knew too well;
My love! my life! said I, explain
This change of humour; pray thee tell:
That falling tear.--What does it mean
She sigh'd, she smil'd; and to the flowers
Pointing, the lovely moralist said:
See! friend, in some few fleeting hours,
See yonder, what a change is made!
Ah me! the blooming pride of May,
And that of beauty are but one:
At morn both flourish bright and gay,
Both fade at ev'ning, pale, and gone!
At dawn poor Stella danc'd and sung;
The am'rous youth around her bow'd:
At night her fatal knell was rung!
I saw and kiss'd her in her shroud;
Such as she is, who dy'd to-day,
Such I, alas! may be to-morrow:
Go, Damon, bid thy muse display
The justice of thy Cloe's sorrow.
GATHER ye rose-buds while ye may:
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best, which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse and worst
Times will succeed the former.
--Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.
NOW the bright morning-star, day's harbinger,
Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her
The flowery May, who from her green lap throws
The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose.
Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire
Mirth, and youth, and warm desire;
Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.
Thus we salute thee with our early song,
And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
AMONG the myrtles as I walk'd,
Love and my Sight thus intertalk'd:
Tell me, said I, in deep distress,
Where I may find my Shepherdess?
--Thou Fool, said Love, know'st thou not this?
In everything that's sweet she is.
In yon'd Carnation go and seek,
There thou shalt find her lips and cheek;
In that enamell'd Pansy by,
There thou shalt have her curious eye;
In bloom of Peach and Rose's bud
There waves the streamer of her blood.
--'Tis true, said I; and thereupon
I went to pluck them one by one,
To make of parts an union;
But on a sudden all were gone.
At which I stopp'd; said Love, these be
The true resemblance of Thee;
For as these Flowers, thy joys must die;
And in the turning of an eye;
And all thy hopes of her must wither,
Like those short sweets here knit together.
"O GIN my love were yon red rose,
"That grows upon the castle wa';
"And I mysel' a drap o' dew,
"Into her bonnie breast to fa'!
"Oh, there beyond expression blest,
"I'd feast on beauty a' the night;
"Seal'd on her silk-waft faulds to rest,
"Till fley'd awa by Phoebus' light."
O were my love yon lilac fair,
Wi' purple blossoms to the spring;
And I, a bird to shelter there,
When wearied on my little wing;
How I wad mourn, when it was torn
By autumn wild, and winter rude!
But I wad sing on wanton wing,
When youthfu' May its bloom renew'd.[*]
OF all the floures in the mede
Than love I most these floures white and rede
Soch that men callen Daisies in our town,
To hem I have so great affection,
As I sayd erst, when comen is the Maie.
That in my bedde there daweth me no daie,
That I n'am up and walking in the mede
To see this floure ayenst the Sunne sprede;
Whan it up riseth early by the morrow,
That blissful sight softeneth all my sorrow.
A ACACIA                   Friendship.
B BLADDER NUT TREE         Frivolity. Amusement.
C COWSLIP, AMERICAN        Divine beauty. You are my divinity.
D DEAD LEAVES              Sadness.
E ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE   Witchcraft. Sorcery.
F FIG MARIGOLD             Idleness.
G GRAPE, WILD              Charity.
H HYACINTH                 Sport. Game. Play.
J JACOB'S LADDER           Come down.
K KENNEDIA                 Mental beauty.
L LARKSPUR, PURPLE         Naughtiness.
M MOSS                     Maternal love.
N NETTLE TREE              Concert.
O OSMUNDA                  Dreams.
P PERIWINKLE, BLUE         Early friendship
R ROSE                     Love.
S SOUTHERNWOOD             Jest. Bantering.
T THRIFT                   Sympathy.
V VERONICA                 Fidelity
W WOOD SORREL              Joy. Maternal tenderness.
X XERANTHEMUM              Cheerfulness under adversity
Z ZEPHYR FLOWER            Expectation