“Now that the lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: Collected Poems, 1909-1962
“Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)
And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time”
it isn't far from London!
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Poems (1906)
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Nick Drake (1948–1974) British singer-songwriter
River Man
Song lyrics, Five Leaves Left (1969)
Variant: Going to see the river man.
Going to tell him all I can
About the ban
On feeling free.If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows,
I don't suppose
It's meant for me.
“I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.”
Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers
Source: Beautiful Losers
“I'm unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups”
Leslie Feist (1976) Canadian musician
"Mushaboom"
Let It Die (2004)
Context: Helping the kids out of their coats
But wait the babies haven't been born
I'm unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups
But in the meantime I've got it hard
Second floor living without a yard.
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Preguntaréis: ¿Y dónde están las lilas?
¿Y la metafísica cubierta de amapolas?
¿Y la lluvia que a menudo golpeaba
sus palabras llenándolas
de agujeros y pájaros?
Explico Algunos Cosas (I'm Explaining a Few Things or I Explain a Few Things), Tercera Residencia (Third Residence), IV, stanza 1.
Alternate translation by Donald D. Walsh:
You will ask: And where are the lilacs?
And the metaphysical blanket of poppies?
And the rain that often struck
your words filling them
with holes and birds?
Residencia en la Tierra (Residence on Earth) (1933)
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Context: p>Tonight the lilacs magnify
The easy passion, the ever-ready love
Of the lover that lies within us and we breatheAn odor evoking nothing, absolute.
We encounter in the dead middle of the night
The purple odor, the abundant bloom.</p
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
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