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Softer than sleep's are the sea's caresses, Kinder than love's that betrays and blesses, Blither than spring's when her flowerful tresses Shake forth sunlight and shine with rain.

From Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

III White violets, there by hands more sweet than they Planted, shall sweeten April's flowerful air About a grave that shows to night and day White violets there.

From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Sweet Illa of the shining sands, She sleeps in shady hollows, Where August flits with flowerful hands, And silver Summer follows.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

The large beloved heart whereon She used to lean, lies still and cold, Where, like a seraph, shines the sun On flowerful green and gold.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

This is the moon of roses,    The lovely and flowerful time; And, as white roses climb the wall,    Your dreams about me climb.

From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by Henley, William Ernest