Uploaded on May 20, 2012
Who thought of the lilac?
“I,” dew said,
“I made up the lilac,
out of my head.”
“She made up the lilac!
Pooh!” thrilled a linnet,
and each dew-note had a
lilac in it.
—Humbert Wolfe
Favorite Poems Old and New
edited Helen Ferris
05.20.2024: My lilacs haven’t bloomed in years, and it depresses me.