When was leaves compared with flowers written

I don't think I can make a choice between flowers and leaves. There are so many beautiful examples of both. As for leaves I do love Ginkos. I've never seen a moon flower before. So beautiful! Thank you for sharing your lovely growing an feeding poem.

Loads of love! Beautiful words and pictures. Just what I needed today. Have a blessed and beautiful day, Marion. I love flowers, but leaves are also captivating. Gorgeous, all. PS: Your moonflowers are works of art. I'm a sucker for both flowers and Frost. I think flowers get most of the glory in Spring and Summer, but leaves have the final word when Autumn reveals their hidden fire.

Post a Comment. July arrived in Louisiana wearing Moonflowers in her hair! The heart-shaped leaves are so large this year that they brought to my mind this Robert Frost poem that I love and have memorized. Backside of opening Moonflower, wet with early evening rain. She looks to be made of delicate silk unfolding, with a starfish inside.

Tiny, sweet-smelling stamens that drive the Sphinx Moth crazy. The big wave of falling leaves is still to come in October but already the grass is littered with the ones that have left their posts early. I love the falling leaves of autumn almost as much as I love the soft green new leaves of early spring. Apparently, Robert Frost had an affection for leaves as well.

At least this strange little poem of his that I came across last week seems to indicate such feelings. Leaves Compared With Flowers. A tree's leaves may be ever so good, So may its bar, so may its wood; But unless you put the right thing to its root It never will show much flower or fruit.

But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear. Leaves for smooth and bark for rough, Leaves and bark may be tree enough. Some giant trees have bloom so small They might as well have none at all. Late in life I have come on fern. Now lichens are due to have their turn. I bade men tell me which in brief, Which is fairer, flower or leaf. They did not have the wit to say, Leaves by night and flowers by day.

Leaves and bar, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood. Carmen September 23, at PM. Dorothy Borders September 23, at PM. Carmen September 25, at PM. Alana September 23, at PM. Judy Krueger September 25, at AM. Dorothy Borders September 25, at PM. In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president last Thursday, Vice-President Biden quoted from a work by the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

Leaves for smooth and bark for rough, Leaves and bark may be tree enough. Some giant trees have bloom so small They might as well have none at all. Late in life I have come on fern.

Now lichens are due to have their turn. I bade men tell me which in brief, Which is fairer, flower or leaf. They did not have the wit to say, Leaves by night and flowers by day. Leaves and bar, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark.