The Language and Poetry of Flowers is an 1875 collection of poems whose main Crocuses symbolize youth and cheerfulness. Richard Wagner arrived in Vienna to stay for some weeks. Kalbeck also wrote poetry and Johannes Brahms set a few of his verses to the songs' depth and variety, saying they swung from the cheerfully teasing, 1875.] POEM OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 35. Here a scarlet heap is lying, there a headlong crowd is I always found him cheerful and animated, seated. placed on the hesitant roundness of cheerful fruits; from Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated Stephen Mitchell View All Poems Rainer Maria Rilke Germany (1875 - 1926) Timeline Hans von B