Dictionary Entry

geraniums

Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium, the cranesbills, of family Geraniaceae.

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Common Phrases

. geraniumsgeraniums redgeraniums scarletgeraniums pinkgeraniums scentedgeraniums pottedgeraniums wild

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Poetry examples for “geraniums”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Five o'clock. The geraniums are very gay in their crimson array.
The bellying clouds swing over the housetops, and over the roofs goes Peter

The clear moon looks in between the geraniums. On the wall,
the shadow of the man is divided from the shadow of the woman

And that was damned dull too,
With its beds of geraniums no one was allowed to pick,
And its clipped lawns you weren't allowed to walk on,

Annette looked at the geraniums, very red against the blue sky.

Over there, a slice of yellow cuts into the silver-blue, and beside it stand
two geraniums, purple because the light is silver-blue, to-night.

He has forgotten the woman in the room with the geraniums. He is beating
his brain, and in his eardrums hammers his heavy pulse. She sits

Geraniums -- tint -- and spot --
Low Daisies -- dot --

And that was damned dull too,
With its beds of geraniums no one was allowed to pick,
And its clipped lawns you weren't allowed to walk on,

Those green-striped ovals of silver tissue?
The red geraniums I know.

The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,