TIGER-LILIES.
I LIKE not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red, or white as snow;
Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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- Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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- Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- 1885
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"Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9188.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 25, 2025.
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Page 24
I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.
For they are tall and slender; Their mouths are dashed with carmine; And when the wind sweeps by them, On their emerald stalks They bend so proud and graceful— They are Circassian women, The favorites of the Sultan, Adown our garden walks!
And when the rain is falling, I sit beside the window And watch them glow and glisten, How they burn and glow! O for the burning lilies, The tender Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow