I love lilac flowers and I am looking for poems about lilacs or at least mentioning them.?

The most famous lilac poem is Walt Whitman%26#039;s Abraham Lincoln elegy, %26quot;When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom%26#039;d%26quot;





Walt Whitman








When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom%26#039;d


1


When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom%26#039;d,


And the great star early droop%26#039;d in the western sky in the night,


I mourn%26#039;d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.





Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,


Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,


And thought of him I love.





2


O powerful western fallen star!


O shades of night - O moody, tearful night!


O great star disappear%26#039;d - O the black murk that hides the star!


O cruel hands that hold me powerless - O helpless soul of me!


O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.





3


In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash%26#039;d palings,


Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green,


With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love,


With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard,


With delicate-color%26#039;d blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green,


A sprig with its flower I break.





4


In the swamp in secluded recesses,


A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.





Solitary the thrush,


The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements,


Sings by himself a song.





Song of the bleeding throat,


Death%26#039;s outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,


If thou wast not granted to sing, thou would%26#039;st surely die.)





5


Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities,


Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep%26#039;d from the


ground, spotting the gray debris,


Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass,


Passing the yellow-spear%26#039;d wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown


fields uprisen,


Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards,


Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave,


Night and day journeys a coffin.





6


Coffin that passes through lanes and streets,


Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land,


With the pomp of the inloop%26#039;d flags with the cities draped in black,


With the show of the States themselves as of crepe-veil%26#039;d women standing,


With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night,


With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads,


With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the sombre faces,


With dirges through the night, with the thousand voices rising strong and solemn,


With all the mournful voices of the dirges pour%26#039;d around the coffin,


The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs - where amid these you journey,


With the tolling bells%26#039; perpetual clang,


Here, coffin that slowly passes,


I give you a sprig of lilac.





7


(Nor for you, for one alone,


Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring,


For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred


death.





All over bouquets of roses,


O death, I cover you with roses and early lilies,


But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first,


Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes,


With loaded arms I come, pouring for you,


For you and the coffins all of you, O death.)





8


O western orb sailing the heaven,


Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walk%26#039;d,


As I walk%26#039;d in silence the transparent shadowy night,


As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,


As you droop%26#039;d from the sky low down as if to my side, (while the other stars


all look%26#039;d on,)


As we wander%26#039;d together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept


me from sleep,)


As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe,


As I stood on the rising ground in the breeze in the cool transparent night,


As I watch%26#039;d where you pass%26#039;d and was lost in the netherward black of the night,


As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,


Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone.





9


Sing on there in the swamp,


O singer bashful and tender, I hear your notes, I hear your call,


I hear, I come presently, I understand you,


But a moment I linger, for the lustrous star has detain%26#039;d me,


The star my departing comrade holds and detains me.





10


O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?


And how shall I deck my soul for the large sweet soul that has gone?


And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?





Sea-winds blown from the east and west,


Blown from the Eastern sea and blown from the Western sea, till there on the


prairies meeting,


These and with these and the breath of my chant,


I%26#039;ll perfume the grave of him I love.





11


O what shall I hang on the chamber walls?


And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls,


To adorn the burial-house of him I love?





Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes,


With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,


With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning,


expanding the air,


With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the trees


prolific,


In the distance of the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple


here and there,


With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows,


And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys,


And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward


returning.





12


Lo, body and soul - this land,


My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the


ships,


The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio%26#039;s shores


and flashing Missouri,


And ever the far-spreading prairies cover%26#039;d with grass and corn.





Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty,


The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes,


The gentle soft-born measureless light,


The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill%26#039;d noon,


The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars,


Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.





13


Sing on, sing on, you gray-brown bird,


Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,


Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines.





Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song,


Loud human song, with voice of uttermost woe.





O liquid and free and tender!


O wild and loose to my soul - O wondrous singer!


You only I hear - yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,)


Yet the lilac with mastering odor holds me.





14


Now while I sat in the day and look%26#039;d forth,


In the close of the day with its light and the fields of spring, and the farmers


preparing their crops,


In the large unconscious scenery of my land with its lakes and forests,


In the heavenly aerial beauty, (after the perturb%26#039;d winds and storms,)


Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the voices of


children and women,


The many-moving sea-tides, and I saw the ships how they sail%26#039;d,


And the summer approaching with richness, and the fields all busy with labor,


And the infinite separate houses, how they all went on, each with its meals and


minutia of daily usages,


And the streets how their throbbings throbb%26#039;d, and the cities pent - lo, then


and there,


Falling upon them all and among them all, enveloping me with the rest,


Appear%26#039;d the cloud, appear%26#039;d the long black trail,


And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death.





Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me,


And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me,


And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions,


I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not,


Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness,


To the solemn shadowy cedars and the ghostly pines so still.





And the singer so shy to the rest receiv%26#039;d me,


The gray-brown bird I know received us comrades three,


And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love.





From deep secluded recesses,


From the fragrant cedars and the ghostly pines so still,


Came the carol of the bird.





And the charm of the carol rapt me,


As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night,


And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.





Come lovely and soothing death,


Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,


In the day, in the night, to all, to each,


Sooner or later delicate death.





Prais%26#039;d be the fathomless universe,


For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,


And for love, sweet love - but praise! praise! praise!


For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.





Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,


Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?


Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all,


I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.





Approach strong deliveress,


When it is so, when you have taken them I joyously sing the dead,


Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee,


Laved in the flood of thy bliss, O death.





From me to thee glad serenades,


Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee,


And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting,


And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.





The night in silence under many a star,


The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,


And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil%26#039;d death,


And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.





Over the treetops I float thee a song,


Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide,


Over the dense-packed cities and all the teeming wharves and ways,


I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.





15


To the tally of my soul,


Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird,


With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night.





Loud in the pines and cedars dim,


Clear in the freshness moist and the swamp-perfume,


And I with my comrades there in the night.





While my sight that was bound in my eyes unclosed,


As to long panoramas of visions.





And I saw askant the armies,


I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags,


Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierced with missiles I saw them,


And carried hither and yon through the smoke and torn and bloody,


And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (all in silence,)


And the staffs all splinter%26#039;d and broken.





I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,


And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them,


I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war,


But I saw they were not as was thought,


They themselves were fully at rest, they suffer%26#039;d not,


The living remain%26#039;d and suffer%26#039;d, the mother suffer%26#039;d,


And the wife and the child and the musing comrade suffer%26#039;d,


And the armies that remain%26#039;d suffer%26#039;d.





16


Passing the visions, passing the night,


Passing, unloosing the hold of my comrades%26#039; hands,


Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul,


Victorious song, death%26#039;s outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song,


As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night,


Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting


with joy,


Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven,


As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses,


Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves,


I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.





I cease from my song for thee,


From my gaze on thee in the west, fronting the west, communing with thee,


O comrade lustrous with silver face in the night.





Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night,


The song, the wondrous chant of the gray-brown bird,


And the tallying chant, the echo arous%26#039;d in my soul,


With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe,


With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird,


Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead


I loved so well,


For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands - and this for his dear sake,


Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul,


There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.

I love lilac flowers and I am looking for poems about lilacs or at least mentioning them.?
My name is Pancho


I live on a rancho


I work for two lilacs a day


I go home to Lucy


She give me some ___


and take my two lilacs away



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My lilac has small buds for the flowers, but no leaves. Everyone else's lilacs have bloomed in my area.?

Any ideas why it wouldn%26#039;t have leaves yet? It%26#039;s the end of April...


Thanks.

My lilac has small buds for the flowers, but no leaves. Everyone else%26#039;s lilacs have bloomed in my area.?
there are different varieties that bloom at different times. i have 5 lilacs and 3 of them bloom together and the other 2 vary in how much later they bloom.


you may also have what is referred to as a microclimate. Where your lilacs are may not receive as much sun as early so the blooming will be later.


generally if you have the flower buds you will have blooms.





I wouldn%26#039;t be concerned.
Reply:Are you sure they are flower buds and not seed pods from last year%26#039;s flowers?





Lilacs should be blooming and in leaf in most parts of the US by now. Check if it is still alive by scraping off some bark with your fingernail or a knife. If it is green, the plant is still alive but slow to get started this year. If it is brown check several other spots. If you cannot find any green under the bark, the plant is a goner.
Reply:You are shooting it with a fertilizer that has too much nitrogen in it..like ALL PURPOSE MIRACLE GROW....when one starts to bud back off on the nitrogen and boost it with miracle grow Bloom Booster which lightens up on the nitrogen(nitrogen works on the leaves) and one that has more pottassium and phospherous..which works on the roots and blooms..did I hit it correct? Have you been fertilizing it with a high nitrogen fertilizer?



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What is a lilac?

There is an ongoing disagreement as to what Lilacs are. Trees, shrubs, bushes..... We all agree they are pretty and smell beautiful. But what are they?! Or is it possible there are all different types, depending on size or species of the %26quot;plant%26quot;?





Thanks for your help guys and gals!

What is a lilac?
My Lilac in Norfolk is 15 ft high, so it to me is a tree, however, my Pieris Forest Flame bush here in Norfolk is 3ft but in my other home in Cumbria I have one that is over 9 ft high. Both same age and same supplier, must be the area and soil etc.
Reply:it%26#039;s a colour which is sort or purple but more to the paler sort of purple.





And it%26#039;s a bush/flower which is lilac sort of colour
Reply:they are a shrub the size of a big tree%26quot;+)


There are all kinds,some double flowered,all different colours.and best of ALL THEY SMELL,MMMMMMMMMMMMMBEAUTIFUL. By most accounts, there are over one thousand varieties of lilacs. That%26#039;s right, over one thousand varieties! Lilacs originate in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. There are also a large variety of Asian Lilacs.








Lilac lovers enjoy a wide range of colors, sizes and types of blooms. The most common Lilac colors are %26quot;Lilac%26quot;, lavender, white, pink, blue, and purple. There is single and double petal varieties. Bushes can grow tall, as much as 30 feet. And, there are dwarf sizes which only grow about three feet high.








The largest collection of them in one place is Highland Park in Rochester, N.Y. which boasts over 500 varieties.
Reply:This is a widely cultivated European shrub (Syringa vulgaris) of the olive family that has cordate ovate leaves and large panicles of fragrant pinkish-purple or white flowers. It can be a tree or shrub congeneric with the lilac.
Reply:The definitions of what is a tree vs a shrub or bush is kind of fuzzy.





In general, if it is tall and has only one trunk it is a tree (but multi-trunked birch trees are still called trees, and a waist-high Japanese cut-leaf maple might be considered a shrub rather than a tree).





If it has several trunks and is under 20 feet tall and over about three feet it fits in the category of shrub.





If it has several trunks or main shoots and is 10 feet or less it fits in the bush category.





So you can see that there is a lot of overlap.
Reply:Its a purple flower.
Reply:The lilac is a bush.But since a bush and a shrub are basically the same thing, it can be either or.A bush is defined as a low shrub with many branches. A shrub is defined as a woody plant of relatively low height, having several stems arising from the base and lacking a single trunk
Reply:lilac bush
Reply:bush
Reply:It%26#039;s a bush that my parents would make me break a branch off so they could spank me when I was young. You will never see one in my yard, ever.
Reply:I buy them from my wholesaler who lists them as a shrub!


Did you know it%26#039;s unlucky to have them indoors though?



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Why is the lilac tree in my yard not producing flowers?

It used to have flowers, I live an duplex and knew the ppl who lived here a few years ago and I remember them having lilacs on the tree. I have lived here for 2 years now and nothing! I have not noticed any insects or anything on it. Any help would be great. Thanks!

Why is the lilac tree in my yard not producing flowers?
depending upon where you live -- there may have been a late spring frost that killed off any buds that were going to bloom this year or even last year.
Reply:If it is really tall, then eventually the lilacs no longer bloom. It happened to my parents%26#039; lilacs when I was growing up.
Reply:My guess is that something bigger is shading out your lilac. They need sun in order to bloom. Take a look around and maybe there is some branches or something that you can trim to give your lilac a little more sun.





The other possibility is that your lilac is getting trimmed at the wrong time of the year or too much. Lilacs set their buds in the early summer and if you trim them after the buds have been set, you have cut off the flowers for the following spring.





Final possibility is that your soil is too acidic, but if you have seen them bloom before, that isn%26#039;t very likely.





Good luck for next spring!
Reply:this was the first year mine didnt have flowers and i have 4 of them in a row in my yard. i live in indiana and we had a warm spell in feb and i think it made my bushes not bloom right this year. hopefully it will change. i just love them.
Reply:Here is what I found: (and I needed this info too)


If you have an established lilac that fails to bloom, one common and often overlooked cause of bloom failure is fertilizer. Most people grow lilacs out in the open lawn. Any lawn fertilizer you place on the lawn is going to reach the lilac bush. You might have the greenest, most lush lilac around, but all that nitrogen that your lawn craves might be causing your lilac to expend energy on foliage rather than blooms. If you fertilize your lawn, avoid the area around the lilacs. If you hire a lawn service, inform them to not fertilize within the drip line of the lilac bushes.





Lack of sunlight might also be another cause. Lilacs require a minimum of six hours of sunlight to perform their best. If you are growing them against the garage near a north facing wall, or in the shadows, you just aren%26#039;t going to get many blooms.





Improper pruning can destroy a lilac display. Snap off all the dead blooms within a week to ten days of blooming. Lilacs set next year%26#039;s buds shortly after flowering, so you don%26#039;t want to delay in removing spent blooms. Pruning to remove suckers and to maintain shape and growth should also be done after bloom time. Stretch this renovation pruning over a three year period so you don%26#039;t sacrifice blooms by whacking away at your shrubs all at once. Take a third of the oldest branches out the first year and any suckers that you might see. Do the same the second and third years.





It is a myth that lilacs will do well in poor or heavy soil. Yes, they will grow in clay, but only if it drains well. Lilacs area at their best in a soil that is slightly alkaline or neutral and high in organic matter. They benefit from mulching and do appreciate a fertilizer higher in phosphorus. This is the second number on fertilizers, and if you can, give them organic fertilizer, low in nitrogen, please!





Lilacs benefit from mulching and regular watering. Don%26#039;t neglect to give them a drink, even if they are established.
Reply:lack of sun, water
Reply:Well the frost did in my lilac this year. But I have also heard you have to have another Lilac in the general area for your lilac to bloom. But most here have it right on. You only trim after it blooms or you won%26#039;t get a bloom the next year. And hope it doesn%26#039;t frost again next year.
Reply:Was it pruned in late summer, or later? That would cut off this year%26#039;s flowers . As others have indicated , could just be a fluke of circumstance. Were they unusually floriferous last year? Flowers take a lot of energy . Maybe not enough for this year . Are they very old? Let some suckers come up from the bottom. Cut down ~ 1/3 of the oldest trunks this year, next %26amp; one after that . Then it will be rejuvenated in 3 years . Just to be sure , take a shovel or spade %26amp; stick it in the ground , here %26amp; there, around the lilac. Have had this work on reluctant Japanese Tree Lilacs , %26amp; Wisteria. It provokes (next yr) a %26quot;Oh -no !- I%26#039;m -gonna -die .-Better - reproduce!%26quot; response .
Reply:Lilacs are peculiar - sometimes, they burst into blossom, and other times, they refuse to sprout so much as one. I have a few lilacs and I never know which ones will decide to grace me with flowers each year.





Has it had any fertilizer, though? Mine respond well to Miracle-Gro. It is, however, too late in the season in most places for a lilac to bloom now. They are a spring blossom.
Reply:Well...many species need a good cold snap/frost or winter. some don%26#039;t. I would trim it back, mulch it , feed it water correctly. you never know! I had some that were 30 years old never had been taken care of (older home I had in Colorado) and they bloomed like crazy! I have one now in california (not enough cold I think) not bloomed yet (2 years old).





anyway, a good trim, food, mulch water and sun, and maybe next year you will be blessed!



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Propogating japanese lilac by cuttings?

We have Japanese lilacs where I work. I love them but can not afford to purchase one. I know they can be propogated by cuttings but am looking for any more specific instructions.

Propogating japanese lilac by cuttings?
go to a garden center and ask for a product that starts cuttings to have roots there are different product names. directions are on the back of the bottle. just a thought if you start them from seed they are very easy to grow and only costs about $2.00. I planted mine about 4weeks ago and it is already growing.
Reply:Root stimulator and follow directions.



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Will My lilac bloom?

I planted it about three years ago. there are tiny buds on it, but I have seen other lilacs in full bloom in my area.

Will My lilac bloom?
If there are buds, it will bloom. Different varieties bloom at different times. I have 7 in my yard, and 1 is in full bloom. It also depends on the amount of sun it gets!
Reply:Lilacs are quite fussy, and may take many years to start flowering. Make sure it has plenty air circulating round it -- they hate to be crowded. They also need plenty of sun. Lilacs are susceptible to powdery mildew -- check the leaves for grayish patches. This is a sure sign of lack of sun and of crowding. Cut off any affected branches.



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If I bought a lilac bush over ebay, do you think it would survive in Arizona?

Lilacs are my favorite flowers, but none grow here in Scottsdale, if planted some, would they survive? or is there another way to grow lilacs?

If I bought a lilac bush over ebay, do you think it would survive in Arizona?
Where in Arizona. Phoenix is a bit hotter than Flagstaff, but in Tucson they do grow. Maybe not as nice as in Prescott, but I have seen them in Tucson. They need just a bit more water than the saguaro of course.





Sam Wymer
Reply:Almost anything will grow in the desert if you keep enough water on it- but does that mean you should? The Southwest is on the edge of a pretty big water crisis. There are a lot of great native and xeriscape plants that look great.





You live in a place unlike any other part of the country. Embrace the beauty. Go to the Desert Botanical Gardens in Papago Park, or take the drive to Boyce Thompson Arboretum by Superior, and fall in love with some local plants.
Reply:You can get any plant to grow anywhere with a little loving care... if it is hardy in your zone you shouldn%26#039;t have much of a problem...just water it well the first year or 2... or since your in arizona... whenever it needs it
Reply:If you want to buy a lilac from any source, you should first check what nurserymen say about its likelihood of surviving Arizona dryness and heat... Do you homework via Internet, first ... very easy to search... dozens of nurseries -- many in Arizona, no doubt -- have informative Web sites... ALSO, check Arizona extension service for advice...
Reply:I live near Prescott, Arizona and the lilacs really thrive here and are blooming right now.
Reply:I think NOT...



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