# Songs and poems about flowers

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 4, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-poems-about-flowers/534931 "2010-04-04T18:32:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-poems-about-flowers/534931/1 "2010-04-04T18:32:04Z")

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Today at my Unitarian Universalist church, we had a “Flower Communion” (usually but not always held on the same day as Easter), and we sang “Edelweiss” and “De Colores” (not hymns, but fitting). It occurs to my I can think of a lot of songs with flowers mentioned in the lyrics, but not that many **about** flowers. What songs or poems about flowers do you know?

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-poems-about-flowers/534931/2 "2010-04-04T18:37:40Z")

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Just off the top of my head:

Rose of Tralee  
Honeysuckle Rose  
Red Roses for a Blue Lady  
Violets for Her Furs  
Roses and Lollipops  
Yellow Rose of Texas  
Wildwood Flower

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-poems-about-flowers/534931/3 "2010-04-04T18:40:43Z")

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Blake: “The Sick Rose,” “Ah! Sunflower,” “My Pretty Rose Tree,” “The Blossom”

Wordsworth: “Daffodils”

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-poems-about-flowers/534931/4 "2010-04-04T19:13:17Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> Yellow Rose of Texas

The “Yellow Rose” is a prostitute, not flora.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-poems-about-flowers/534931/5 "2010-04-04T19:24:47Z")

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> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> The “Yellow Rose” is a prostitute, not flora.

Well, I see that as a plus, not a minus. 😃

Of course, I never knew that until this moment! [The Yellow Rose of Texas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Rose_of_Texas)

Ignorance fought! Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-and-poems-about-flowers/534931/6 "2010-04-05T03:54:22Z")

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0, my love is like a red, red rose,  
that’s newly sprung in June.  
0, my love is like a melody,  
that’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair thou art, my bonnie lass,  
so deep in love am I,  
And I will love thee still, my dear,  
till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,  
and the rocks melt wi’ the sun!  
And I will love thee still, my dear,  
while the sands of life shall run.

And fare the weel, my only love!  
And fare the well awhile!  
And I will come again, my love.  
Tho it were ten thousand mile!

Robert Burns